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I like the idea of the sadness that he ignored his son by paying loads of attention to Tommy, then tommy went awol with george duke, but at least he could have had Apollo or Creed's manager(I forget the name) train him for one last fight in the ring, and then beats tommy gunn, wins the title, and wins back his fortune.

Yet I do feel a great deal of pity for Anna Nicole, she thought fame and fortune would bring her happiness,and she had to learn the hard way that they do not.

7) The drama moment: the final scene where all of the above (yes, the principal too) come together in a dance contest that the for-some-reason-loaded dance teacher manages to get them into by paying a fortune.

But there turned out to be more ways to get away from the fortune that he programmed himself.

Belly-laugh funny throughout, this film succeeds in convincing the viewer to root for this couple to find love, instead of the fame and fortune they think they want.

A fortune is made on Delilah's recipe and when Delilah is asked to sign for 20% of the proceeds that her recipe created she states that money is not important to her, but, she would like enough money set aside so she can have a grand funeral, "I loves me a good funeral."

However, this 1h25m pinnacle is Wallace's debunking of the idea that a bad fortune cookie should prevent you from boarding a plane.

Before this situation can be dealt with along comes the believed "deceased's" next of kin and a gang of jewel thieves trying to find a fortune in diamonds hidden in the house.

The ending is especially weak, with some totally unacceptable police work, not to mention the killer's unbelievable good fortune.

I had the good fortune of a teacher lending me this in high school.

It was a hell of a place to make your fortune.

A violin will transport you through time as it's fortune is played out over 4 hundred years in this totally captivating and intriguing story.

It turns out that the family union agency mixed the invites up & the Addams received the wrong invite & are caught in a plot by Phillip Adams (Ed Begley Jr.) & his sister Katherine (Hilary Shepard) to get a larger slice of their rich father's fortune.

Now that I'm an adult I'm paying a fortune for bootlegs and authorized versions.

The third happens to the castanet player, whose fortune teller turns up the ace of spades for her several times in a row without fail.

Jump forward to the present & now the teenage Angelina (Paydin LaPachin) & her mute brother Norbert (Rocky Marquette) decide to head back to Las Vegas after going from foster home to foster home with Dummy to find the fame & fortune as a ventriloquist act their late poor mother never did.

I had the good fortune of being able to see this gem at a public screening this week.

What's funny is, I'm a librarian, and people will pay literally a fortune for the sequels to "Sooner or Later".

It's all about how scum bag "artistes" manipulate gullible young women by holding the lure of fame and fortune over their empty little heads.

The beautiful Monica Vitti is well cast as an outrageously rich woman who loses her fortune to her snake-in-the-grass boyfriend, who tells her in bed that he has stolen her blind.

The DVD sleeve's synopsis offers a good preview: "A wealthy gentleman hosts a dinner party where he is going to reveal the heir to his fortune, in front of the thirteen guests attending the dinner.

The film is all but stolen by Vincent Price, essaying another bright comedic part as Omar Khayyam, poet and victim of Sinbad's ill fortune after he is caught leaving the Sultan's harem.

Cosmo, played by Ben Gazzara, owes a fortune in gambling debts, and agrees to commit a murder to payoff the loan.

Eli Wallach and Robert Culp play research scientists at a small Polar station that the previous inhabitants of met with bad fortune.

Soon the inevitable starts to happen, person or persons want the bay so badly they are prepared to kill for it, and so begins a tale of murder, mystery and double cross with the ultimate prize of the bay and the Countess's fortune at stake!

Everything about this movie screams class--from the sight gags to the outrageous costumes (which if you really look at the costumes and sets they probably cost a fortune in Depression money) Laurel and Hardy are great for the whole movie with some of the goofiest antics I've seen in any of their films (selling mouse traps: they drill holes in the floor so the mice can get in and then cap them with golf balls so they can't get back out) The gorilla in Switzerland is hilarious (and really random) but makes me laugh every time.

He is a masterful businessman, an unbelievable athlete, and someone totally uncorrupted by fame and fortune (as far as I know).

The other is a man whose father leaves him a fortune providing he marries the girl of his father's choice whom he has never met and who is nearly murdered as he comes to meet her, another man who dies is mistaken for him, allowing him to assume a new identity and observe her from a distance.

It then transpires that Lucky's sidekick Slip Moran has got involved with foreign spies who will pay a fortune for the tank plans.

A wealthy man Red Stevens (James Garner) has amassed a fortune, turning his personal life into a shambles in the process and producing a family of greedy ruthless gluttons - with one exception: one son rebelled and lost his life to dreams despite the aspirations of the father.

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