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...make great sense. Friel shot to British fame in 1994, principally for providing one half of the first lesbian kiss on a mainstream television soap, Brookside. Despite having appeared in 11 films, Friel has yet to enjoy the sort of celluloid success attained by her British contemporary Rachel Weisz, whose Enemy at the Gates has just opened, let alone the stellar heights of Catherine Zeta-Jones...
...enemies is just all in a day's work for him. Koenig is always one step ahead of Vassily, and in scene after nail-biting scene, the two men stalk each other amidst the ruins of the city. The secondary plot beyond this duel is a romance. Rachel Weisz plays Tania, the woman who must choose between our two young Russian heroes. Her decision seems simple at first she should pick the handsome and famous hero who kills people over a simple propaganda officer. However, Annaud wisely complicates the plot by making both Tania and Danilov Jewish. They also have...
...Ronin is that it slyly but quite openly acknowledges the abstract state at which the action film has arrived. The title is the Japanese word for samurai who have lost their master and must hire themselves out as amoral and dispassionate mercenaries. The script, by J.D. Zeik and Richard Weisz (a pseudonym for David Mamet), applies the term to former CIA and KGB agents who are now obliged to work for terrorists and other international thugs, with no ideology to justify their exertions. It sets a bunch of them--including Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Stellan Skarsgard and Natascha McElhone...
...Yorker Naomi Weisz Nagel, 56, the story began with precious coded letters miraculously smuggled out of Czechoslovakia by her parents in 1943. An aunt who survived the war showed her how the letters contained the numbers of a secret Swiss account disguised as a telephone number. But when she and her aunt tried to retrieve the money from a Basel bank after the war, officials said there were no records of the account. "Despite our specific identification of an account number at a specific bank, despite having hired a Swiss lawyer, the bank refused to return my family's money...
...schools." Elmer Johnson, a , former executive vice president of General Motors, says, "The financial wizards of wheeling, dealing and acquisitions brought their bags of tricks, but they turned out to be a lot of hogwash. The main concern should have been, Who's minding the store?" Observes William Weisz, vice chairman of Motorola: "The kind of issues we have are survival issues. The competitive environment is going to get much tougher. Tremendous battles will have to be fought. If we don't succeed, America will just end up as a nation that rents hotel rooms and sells hamburgers to each...