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...Terminal, Viktor Navorski (Hanks) arrives at a New York City airport on a flight from his native land, Krakozhia. The country has just suffered a coup, and until the U.S. recognizes a legitimate regime, he can't go into the city or back home. (It's not explained why many others on his flight wouldn't be in the same predicament.) So Viktor is under airport arrest; to find food, work, a place to sleep and a woman to love, he must rely on his own resources. Which are considerable. This is, after all, a Spielberg movie (Viktor...
...surprise about The Terminal is not that it got bad buzz but that it's a bad film. Several bad films, actually. First it's a comedy of desperation, with lots of sight gags (a machine that spits quarters in Viktor's face, too many people slipping on a wet floor) in the style of French comic actor-director Jacques Tati. Then it's a love story, as Viktor romances a flight attendant (Catherine Zeta-Jones). Finally the uplifting and heart tugging kick in. The Terminal is Spielberg's shortest feature since the first Jurassic Park, yet it drags, plods...
...says it has a 92% holding. (Total denied it was interested.) A group of foreign banks warned Yukos that with Russia having frozen its assets over a $3.5 billion tax claim, the company was in danger of defaulting on a $1 billion loan. Now here comes pro-government politician Viktor Gerashchenko, dubbed by former Kremlin economics advisor Jeffrey Sachs as "the worst central banker in history" after presiding over the crash of the ruble in 1994, to announce that Yukos had invited him to be its chairman. Gerashchenko said that while certain shareholders had problems with the authorities, Yukos...
...COVER Illustration for TIME by Viktor Koen...
...wishes, his five offspring have been selling off chunks of the Forbes art collection that took a lifetime to gather. The crown jewels went last week: nine rare Faberge eggs and sundry other works in a private sale to Russian oil and aluminum tycoon Viktor Vekselberg for more than $100 million...