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True lies.(FILM)(Movie review)
FROM The Great Train Robbery down to Ocean's 11, nothing tickles the moviegoing public like watching someone pull off the perfect crime--and no crime is quite so smooth and glamorous, so free from muss and fuss, as the artful grift. It's a shame, then, that real-life con men tend to be such a sordid lot, winkling widows out of their retirement funds, cozying up to lonely housewives, or seducing middle managers with false promises of Nigerian millions. Most grifter movies are implausible improvements on this less-than-cinematic reality, from Robert Redford and Paul Newman's glamorous turn in The Sting to David Mamet's chilly, hermetic entertainments, where everyone's swindling everyone else.
There are a few true-to-life flim-flam men, though, whose cons are the stuff that films are made of. Frank Abagnale, for ...
- Irving Bank rejects reduced Bank of New York offer; cites inadequacy and...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire December 15, 1987 700+ words
...INCOMPATIBILITYOFFER; NEW YORK, Dec. 15 /PRNewswire/ - Irving Bank Corporation...s closing Bank of New York stock price.) The Irving board had rejected...could jeopardize both Irving and Bank of New York. By doing so, Bank...
- Irving Bank rejects Bank of New York offer.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire May 20, 1988 700+ words
IRVING BANK REJECTS BANK OF NEW YORK OFFER NEW YORK, May 20...foreclose a merger between Irving and Bank of New York for at least five years...be a disservice to the Irving shareholders to allow Bank of New York to truncate the ongoing...
- Irving directors approve revised merger offer; Bank of New York slates amended...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire October 11, 1988 700+ words
...of three Bank of New York directors and two Irving directors. -- Continuation...accepting the Bank of New York's offer, the Irving board's actions...Section 912 of the New York Business Corporation Law, redemption of Irving's common stock...
- BANK OF NEW YORK SHAREHOLDERS BACK HOSTILE TAKEOVER OF IRVING.(Business)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) April 15, 1988 700+ words
...At the annual meeting, Irving representatives urged Bank of New York shareholders to ask management...stock in both Bank of New York and Irving. Irving said it had no...industry. A merger between New York Bank and Irving would create one of the...
- IRVING SURRENDERING TO BANK OF NEW YORK.(Business)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) October 6, 1988 700+ words
...conditional approval for a Irving-Bank of New York merger. A merger would...of June 30. Bank of New York, which owns 4.9 percent of Irving, had maintained since...headquarters and some upstate New York branches, reducing Irving's Third World debt...
- HOSTILE BID FOR IRVING SWEETENED BANK OF NEW YORK CHIEF MEETS...
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) June 16, 1988 700+ words
...meeting between Bank of New York Chairman J. Carter Bacot and his Irving counterpart, Joseph...the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Irving stock was up $3...election of the Irving board of directors and a New York State Supreme Court...
- STATE BLESSES BANK OF NEW YORK TAKEOVER IRVING STILL FIGHTS FORCED...
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) February 26, 1988 700+ words
...Investors Service. By late afternoon on the New York Stock Exchnage, Irving stock jumped $3.12 1/2 a share to...restricting the issuance of new stock. Bank of New York has sued Irving in New York state court to have the preferred issues...
- The Bank of New York Company Inc. announces exchange offer to acquire all...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire September 25, 1987 700+ words
...OUTSTANDING COMMON SHARES OF IRVING BANK CORPORATION NEW YORK, Sept. 25 /PRNewswire...share for 52.6 percent of Irving's shares. The Bank of New York Company currently owns 888,634 shares of Irving, or 4.9 percent of the outstanding...