wealthy socialite Bruce Wayne becomes something both more and less than human—the BATMAN. His one-man crusade for justice attracts unexpected allies within the GCPD and City Hall, but his heroic actions
Bruce Wayne is not unlike us wealthy Americans (even the poor among us are the top 1% wealth of the world). We’ve inherited a lot of resources and it’s allowed us to prosper and create like no other place in the world. If you accept (or at least appreciate the framing of) the ...
Ryan: I did. And I had the sweat pants and I think those were some kind of unique parts of our story because I grew up in Canada in northern Alberta, a very rich part of Canada, but we actually grew up not so wealthy in that area, both for different reasons of my family. We we...
"Reversal of Fortune" is based on the true story of socialite and British lawyer Claus von Bulow, the attempted murder of his wife, the ultra-wealthy Sunny von Bulow, and his hiring of attorney Alan Dershowitz to help him overthrow his attempted murder conviction. Martha Sunny von Bulow remai...
Gotham Knights' Court Of Owls Could Recruit Non-Wealthy Characters The Court of Owls usually only recruits members with a wealthy background, but this is liable to change in the Gotham Knights game. Gotham City has always been a tricky beast to tame, especially with Batman's iron fist crus...
The inciting incident is when a wealthy businessman offers Hercule Poirot a large sum of money to protect him, and then gets murdered that same night. This forces Poirot to decide whether to try to solve the murder or to continue enjoying his ride back to England. ...
(Rob Lowe) tempts the pair with a lucrative studio deal. While Wayne and Garth are at first inspired by the expanded resources, they find their creativity is limited when they must appease wealthy sponsors. The film often breaks the fourth wall; Wayne and Garth openly address the audience, ...
Traders peddled the tusk as a unicorn horn, believed to be an antidote to poison, and the wealthy fell for the ploy. Of course, no one had ever seen a unicorn. But it was mentioned in the Bible, so it would be heretical to say it didn't exist. And at one time, there was a ...
In ""City Lights,"" Charlie Chaplin's character uses his relationship with a wealthy man to help a poor blind girl with whom he has fallen in love. Next clue: When this film was released, John DeLorean wrote a letter to the writers to thank them for enshrining his namesake car in the...
Abigail of the Old Testament was married to a wealthy but rude and unkind man named Nabal. After he died, she became one of the wives of Israel's King David. Linked to the fact that in the Bible, Abigail tells David she is his servant, the name came to be used as slang for serva...