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Branson's entrepreneurial flair blossomed early, at 17, when he started a magazine called Student and brashly talked the likes of John le Carre, James Baldwin and Vanessa Redgrave into contributing articles or being interviewed. Student was short lived, largely because the young proprietor spotted, in the number of ads for mail-order records, a demand among young British music lovers for cut-rate disks. Mail order led to the Virgin name (they were young and inexperienced) and a small store, which led to the Virgin record label, which led to more than 100 companies with 11,000 employees...
...liar on TV. Though the suit died with the antagonists, it gave publicity to the fabrications in Pentimento and Scoundrel Time. From the former comes the story Julia, which casts Hellman as a heroic anti-Nazi in World War II. Jane Fonda played Lillian in the movie (Vanessa Redgrave was Julia). None of the yarn was true, but the author stubbornly maintained its veracity...
Sophomore Ivy Pochoda took most of the top seed duties, while co-captains Blair Clark and Erin Dockery took high seeds. Also starting were freshmen Ilana Eisenstein, Vanessa Hoermann, Leah Ramella, Stephanie Teaford, Lindsay Wilber and Brooke Herlihy...
...exotic, expensive equipment they need to support their complicated activities? I mean, how do you rent a fire truck, vital to the burgling of the aforementioned vault--located at CIA headquarters in Virginia--when you're calling long distance from Prague? Finally, why did director Brian De Palma permit Vanessa Redgrave to act in this movie? She's good and funny as a woman of a certain age, and an evil genius besides, reduced to mewing kittenishness in Cruise's presence. But she makes everyone else look bad. She also makes us realize what we and the movie so desperately...
...talk, the way a Schwarzenegger trailer should be. In this reverse twist on Total Recall--he wipes out your real past instead of remembering a fake one--Arnie saves nice people and blows stuff up. Worth seeing, if only to find out if Hollywood has finally decided to make Vanessa Williams a movie star...