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...release on March 12, it has demolished the more expensive competition, pulling in $8 million its first weekend. Next week moviegoers will be able to see yet another facet of Pryor when Some Kind of Hero opens. In it he plays the seriocomic role of a Viet Nam vet who tries to adjust to the apathy and red tape he finds back home...
Unlike many of the entrepreneurs, Smith was wealthy before he began Federal Express. A Viet Nam vet (200 missions in forward-control planes) and the son of a millionaire Memphis businessman who died when Smith was only four, he put $4 million of family money into his idea for Federal Express and went to New York City on a search for more. Smith was able to persuade half a dozen institutional investors with his sharp intellect and directness and several market research reports predicting that Federal...
...exactly the all-American couple," says Conrad, but they may be the all-American cat lovers. Indeed, Phyllis' entire salary as a Pratt purchasing agent-$350 a week-goes for vet bills and supplies. The weekly delivery of 24 cases of cat food and 140 Ibs. of litter alone costs $300. Says Phyllis: "We've had to give up a lot of privileges. It's like a trust or a duty...
...approach the war with any pretensions to seriousness and the results were pretty sad. With Bruce Dern as a fired-up army officer, Jane no-that's-not-me-in-the-love-scene-but-that-was-me-in-Barbarella Fonda as his wife and Jon Voight as a crippled vet, everyone is too damn earnest. The depth of the emotional struggles in the movie makes Ordinary People look like a model of complexity. And when Dern bares his buns for that catharsis/baptism, you want to vomit. Any ninth-grader could have written that...
...author of a children's book (Piggy Bank and the Magic Peppermint Penny) scheduled for publication this winter. She yearned to create one character "people will remember," to make her ultimate mark as a writer of fiction. "Nobody," she said not long ago, "is going to remember a vet at Belmont Park...