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Moreover, the subplots are entirely incompatible. While the courtroom drama is an exercise in laughable platitudes, Rudy's quest to save the abused Danes is imbued with vicious reality. Scenes where Danes' husband confronts her with a baseball bat completely betray the light-hearted mood--and, in fact, underscore the inadequacy of the main storyline. Indeed, when the movie drops this subplot abruptly in order to focus on the legal battle, the film grinds to a screeching halt...
...these words are being written, Michael Jordan and the mighty Chicago Bulls have a 500 record. Software giant Microsoft is battling antitrust suits brought by the U.S. government. And once-dominant children's entertainer Barney is now the subject of innumerable vicious parodies, with whole Web sites devoted to his gory demise. These three unrelated things delight us in similar ways. In each case, someone or something that was staggeringly successful for a long period of time has undergone a fall from grace...
Remember the Greek mythological figure Icarus who flew too close to the sun on wings of wax? The modern-day version is Barry Sternlicht, the highflying CEO of Starwood Lodging Trust, which is in a vicious proxy contest this week with Hilton Hotels for control of ITT Corp. By topping Hilton's offer with a $10.2 billion bid for ITT, Sternlicht has thrust himself into what had been a very personal battle between Hilton CEO Stephen Bollenbach and ITT boss Rand Araskog--and thus into the public spotlight. Sternlicht is a Wall Street darling. His stock, including dividends, has soared...
...Ouderkirk pressed hard for a deal, but when the two principals finally met face to face for a court-ordered chat on Nov. 3, things didn't go well. Having blown off some steam, the boys may finally be ready to talk and thus deprive Hollywood of a deliciously vicious courtroom clash. Technically, a jury would determine only whether Disney violated the contract. If the jury found it did, an arbitrator would determine the damage award...
...others who live on the moral margins, such as Islamic terrorists or Louise Woodward; but it allows Gere's Mulqueen, a convicted killer, to roam around unmanacled and largely unsupervised. The script strains to pardon Mulqueen's crimes by contrasting his noble, ideological struggle with the Jackal's vicious, gun-for-hire mentality, but both characters are so poorly developed that it's hard to care. What little friction there is between the two terrorists comes to nought...