Word: tycooning
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...show business think that what works once usually works again, so Curtis is reuniting with her A Fish Called Wanda castmates, KEVIN KLINE, MICHAEL PALIN and JOHN CLEESE, for a new film, Fierce Creatures. The plot follows the adventures of zookeepers who match wits with a crassly commercial tycoon. Wanda, eaten in the last film, would be proud...
...Jonas it means much more. When creepy railroad tycoon J.P. Stiles (Scott Glenn) offers the towns people $50 an acre for their land, only Jonas stands up to question the shady deal. Stiles' thugs hunt him down and shoot him, but Jonas manages to pass the deed to the farm on to his son. Miserable, Daniel runs out to the family boat and cries himself to sleep. Obviously, the Hacketts are farmers and not sailors since the gentle bobbing of the boat unlaces the feebly-tied mooring rope, setting Daniel adrift down the river...
...could this happen? How could the health movement, which seemed to be chugging along so energetically, have backfired? There is no shortage of theories. Weight-loss tycoon Jenny Craig blames the news media. "They pushed one diet, then the other," she says. "Now they broadcast that diets don't work." Exercise guru Richard Simmons fingers TV advertising. "It's crazy," he says. "The ads say 'eat, eat, eat!' but show a girl who's so thin she clearly never eats." Julia Child, TV's French chef (no caloric slouch herself), cites sedentary life-styles. "Maybe they're not doing enough...
...ingredients of a full-blown political crisis were gathering last week over Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's fragile coalition government. But none was more threatening than the challenge directed at Berlusconi personally, the tycoon who had been swept into power earlier this year on a tide of anticorruption sentiment. Even as he was host to a U.N. conference in Naples on combatting organized crime, the Prime Minister, once dubbed Il Cavaliere, or the knight, found himself among the knaves as he was formally placed under investigation by magistrates engaged in a bribery probe of Fininvest, his business empire...
Prison looms for rare-coin tycoon and sports-team king...