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...mood for the whole cycle. It's about one of those days when everything goes wrong. Steve (Steve Brodie), a decent Joe who's been married to loving Anne (Audrey Long) for four months, gets a call one evening to make some easy money driving his truck for Walt (Raymond Burr), a guy he used to know. The truck, Steve learns, is to be used for a heist, and when he protests he's forced into it, and spotted by the police. He gets away, but Walt's brother Al is picked up. Now Steve is on the bad side...
...long, slow middle passage, where Steve hides out with Anne's sturdy, Czech-American parents out in the heartland. But the movie smartly yanks itself back down into the murk, and ends with a sensational shot, in which the camera peers down a four-story stairwell, and Walt falls from the top flight, his body hitting and caroming off each railing. (Give a little wow of appreciation for the stunt crew...
When he was CEO of Proctor & Gamble, John Pepper was one of several chief execs forced to disrupt its chummy corporate culture. As the newly appointed nonexecutive chairman of the Walt Disney Co., he may aim to keep things calm. A shareholder revolt forced the board to remove CEO Michael Eisner as chairman in 2004 and opt for a nonexec chair. Although Pepper lacks media experience, A.G. Edwards analyst Michael Kupinski says Disney will benefit from Pepper's global-branding background as it expands worldwide. With shares up 30% since October, Disney's shareholders have been as quiet...
...Walt Disney Studios chief Dick Cook once said, this is a quote from 2004, ?It?s a real advantage to be able to identify a film as an M. Night Shyamalan film.? How do you feel about that statement...
...fast enough, high enough, scared enough yet? Are we pulling enough G's? Following Thursday's death in Orlando of a 12-year-old boy who collapsed after riding Walt Disney World's Rock 'N' Roller Coaster, the answer may finally be yes. In a scenario that will raise a cold sweat among epinephrine junkies who live for escalations in the theme-park roller coaster arms race, industry insiders are starting to predict that fear will not be the driving factor in the next generation of rides...