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That is not as easy as it sounds. The lead lounge lizard, toothpaste heir Charley Pearl (Baldwin), is engaged and attending a Las Vegas bachelor party when he falls into obsession with nightclub singer Vicki Anderson (Basinger). She, in turn, is the mistress of the Strip's founding mobster, Bugsy Siegel. In other words, these are not people with whom one feels an immediate natural identification. Nor is their problem -- a stormy relationship that requires them to marry and separate four times -- one for which most people are likely to have an affinity...
Casper was one of Chicago's most successful law school deans, and he led a record-breaking capital campaign for that school. Appointed provost only two years ago, the 53-year-old scholar is already considered by many to be University of Chicago President Hanna H. Gray's heir apparent...
...course, eminently lovable: melodious, harmonious, beautiful, an escape from all the ills that flesh is heir to. "The only music yet written that would not sound out of place in the mouth of God," George Bernard Shaw once wrote. But each age hears the Mozart it wants to hear, and today's audiences enjoy not only the exquisite serenity of this music but also its emotions, its subtlety and wit. Indeed, Peter Sellars' "modernized" stagings of the operas demonstrate a very contemporary sense of anxiety and unhappiness. Still, the music remains joyous and so eminently worth celebrating...
...heir of Jean Gabin -- the soul of France," says Bertrand Blier, writer-director of six Depardieu films, including the Oscar-winning Get Out Your Handkerchiefs and the new Merci la Vie. "Like all the great talents, Gerard is a raw talent -- art brut. They learn a little technique doing theater, but the rest is inside them. Brando, Dustin Hoffman, Mastroianni: he's in that great class." Like those actors, Depardieu is capable of melodramatic excess; to give all is sometimes to give too much. But also like them, he has set an indelible stamp on his country's films, defining...
...trail led them to Louis Marx Jr., a New York City financier. Marx, an heir to a toymaking fortune, supplied Bush with $2.3 million in government- guaranteed financing to bankroll Apex Energy, an oil exploration firm the President's son started in May 1989. Marx's venture-capital firms were declared insolvent a year later, triggering a $25 million federal bailout. As a result, taxpayers may once again have to underwrite a Neil Bush venture. Bush financed his earlier firm, JNB Exploration, with loans from two Silverado customers whose $130 million in defaults helped escalate the cost...