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...long-time Sandy Weill sidekick, Chuck Prince might have got a chance to run Citigroup in any event. But a progression of Citi scandals that began in the dotcom-bubble years with shady Enron dealings and stock touting for troubled telecoms quickened this lawyer's ascent. Prince, 54, landed the CEO job little more than a year ago. Since then, old improprieties have continued to surface, posing new p.r. nightmares-- including Citi's private-banking operation being banned from Japan just a few months ago for failing to guard against money laundering, among other things. To atone, Prince bowed deeply...
...each minute, the characters’ circumstances grow subsequently worse, highlighted by the oft-repeated line, “I think our situation has deteriorated.” The only character who seems to be having one of the best nights of his life is Mr. Pidgen, the shy sidekick of the sly and overconfident Mr. Willey. Docherty slides into the role of Pidgen with ease and strength in his vivification of the old saying, “beware of the quiet ones.” In his first play at Harvard, Docherty manages to make believable the idea...
...modern day Juan Ponce De Leon, runs around like an idiot, examining money like a McDonald’s cashier dubious about a customer paying for an item on the dollar menu with a $10 bill. At one point in the film, Cage’s sidekick, a first generation treasure hunter played by Justin Bartha—I know what you’re thinking: sooooo JV—cracks an ironic smile and asks his fellow treasure hunters, “Who wants to go down the creepy tunnel inside the tomb first?” Unbeknownst...
...modern day Juan Ponce De Leon, runs around like an idiot, examining money like a McDonald’s cashier dubious about a customer paying for an item on the dollar menu with a ten-dollar bill. At one point in the film, Cage’s sidekick, a first generation treasure hunter played by Justin Bartha—I know what you’re thinking: sooooo JV—cracks an ironic smile and asks his fellow treasure hunters, “Who wants to go down the creepy tunnel inside the tomb first?” Unbeknownst...
...hotel heiresses it would charge the film with an exciting postmodern meta-discourse (comparatively). But the film’s ho-hum shenanigans aren’t devoid of eye-opening sexual elements, particularly the masculinity crisis embodied in Cage’s ‘girly’ sidekick Riley. Throughout the film he whines and moans about all the danger Gates is getting him into, in between his moments of rocket scientist computer wizardry. Riley refers to Abigail as “that hot girl” while Gates pretends to be disinterested because we all know that...