Problem: I am trying to decide whether it's worth it to invest in this film proposal. Can you help me answer a few questions? If you can't, please say "No I can't". Question: When did Mark Whitacre work at ADM? Movie title: The Informant! Movie plot: Mark Whitacre, a rising star at Decatur, Illinois, based Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) in the early 1990s, blows the whistle on the company's price-fixing tactics at the urging of his wife Ginger.[3][4] One night in November 1992, Whitacre confesses to FBI special agent Brian Shepard that ADM executivesincluding Whitacre himselfhad routinely met with competitors to fix the price of lysine, an additive used in the commercial livestock industry. Whitacre secretly gathers hundreds of hours of video and audio over several years to present to the FBI.[3][5][6] He assists in gathering evidence by clandestinely taping the company's activity in business meetings at various locations around the globe such as Tokyo, Paris, Mexico City, and Hong Kong, eventually collecting enough evidence of collaboration and conspiracy to warrant a raid of ADM. Whitacre's good deed dovetails with his own major infractions, while his internal, secret struggle with bipolar disorder seems to take over his exploits.[3][7] The bulk of the film focuses on Whitacre's meltdown resulting from the pressures of wearing a wire and organizing surveillance for the FBI for three years, instigated by Whitacre's reaction, in increasingly manic overlays, to various trivial magazine articles he reads. In a stunning turn of events immediately following the covert portion of the case, headlines around the world report Whitacre had embezzled $9 million from his own company during the same period of time he was secretly working with the FBI and taping his co-workers, while simultaneously aiming to be elected as ADM CEO following the arrest and conviction of the remaining upper management members.[3] In the ensuing chaos, Whitacre appears to shift his trust and randomly destabilize his relationships with Special Agents Shepard and Herndon and numerous attorneys in the process. Authorities at ADM begin investigating the forged papertrail Whitacre had built to cover his own deeds. After being confronted with evidence of his fraud, Whitacre's...

A: in the early 1990's

Problem: Given the question: I am trying to decide whether it's worth it to invest in this film proposal. Can you help me answer a few questions? If you can't, please say "No I can't". Question: What is the name of young boy who comes to see Wolfe Movie title: The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery Movie plot: Nero Wolfe is seated at a large dining table. Archie comes in and joins him. He tells Wolfe he is overdrawn. Wolfe chides Fritz for changing one of his favorite dishes, but Archie enjoys it.Pete Drossos, a young boy, comes to the door, wanting to see Wolfe. He says he has a case, and Archie invites him in. He is a window washer and has seen a woman being abducted. The woman had a golden spider earring. Wolfe instructs Archie to call Cramer to have him trace the car, and the boy leaves to get his lunch.The next day, Stebbins comes to the door. Pete has been killed in a hit and run by the same car. While they discuss the case, Pete's mother comes. Before he died, he had told her to give Wolfe all his money to have Wolfe find his killer.They use the small amount of money he had to run an ad in the paper attempting to draw in the murderer. When he sees it, Cramer comes to find out why, and they discuwo ss Matthew Birch, another man found dead in an alley the previous day. Evidence suggests the same car that killed Pete Drossos also killed Birch.A woman calls at the brownstone, in response to the ad. She is wearing the golden spider earrings. She refuses to give her name, but wants to see Pete. Wolfe forces her to reveal her name, Laura Fromm. She writes Wolfe a check for $10,000 for his advice and help, and promises to return the next day. She refuses to identify the woman in the car.The following day, two lawyers, Denis Horan and Bernard Levine, appear to tell Wolfe that Fromm has also been run over. They want Wolfe to return the money, but Wolfe plans to use it to find her murderer.Archie talks to Lon Cohen to review Fromm's last day. After Wolfe hears the report, he sends Archie to see Jean Estey. While they talk, Paul Cuffner comes in and throws Archie out, and he returns to the brownstone. Saul, Fred, and Orrie are there and he sends them out on assignments.Archie returns to Jean Estey. He pretends to be corrupt and asks her for $5,000 in return for hearing Wolfe's conversation with Laura Fromm. She responds...
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Pete Drossos

[Q]: I am trying to decide whether it's worth it to invest in this film proposal. Can you help me answer a few questions? If you can't, please say "No I can't". Question: What are Ring Lardner and Hugh Fullerton's jobs? Movie title: Eight Men Out Movie plot: In 1919, the Chicago White Sox are considered the greatest team in baseball and, in fact, one of the greatest ever assembled to that point, behind their greatest star, Joe Jackson. However, the team's owner, Charles Comiskey, is a skinflint with little inclination to reward his players for a spectacular season. When gamblers "Sleepy" Bill Burns and Billy Maharg get wind of the players' discontent, they offer a select group of Sox including star knuckleball pitcher Eddie Cicotte, who led the majors with a 29-7 win-loss record and has an earned run average of just 1.82 more money to play badly than they would have earned by winning the World Series against the Cincinnati Reds. Cicotte's motivation for being involved was because Comiskey refused him a promised $10,000 should he win 30 games for the season. Cicotte was nearing the milestone until Comiskey ordered team manager Kid Gleason to bench him for 2 weeks (missing 5 starts) to rest the 35-year-old veteran's arm for the series. A number of players, including Chick Gandil, Swede Risberg, and Lefty Williams, go along with the scheme. Jackson is depicted as being not bright and not entirely sure what is going on. Buck Weaver, meanwhile, is included with the seven others but insists that he wants nothing to do with the fix. When the best-of-nine series begins, Cicotte (pitching in Game 1) deliberately hits Reds leadoff hitter Morrie Rath in the back with his second pitch in a prearranged signal to gangster Arnold Rothstein that the fix was on (Rothstein allegedly financed the fix). Cicotte then pitches poorly and gave up 5 runs in four inningsfour of them in the 4th, including a triple given up to Reds pitcher Walter "Dutch" Ruether. He is then relieved by Gleason, though the Sox lose the first game 91. Williams also pitched poorly in Game 2, while Gandil, Risberg and Hap Felsch made glaring mistakes on the field. Several of the players become upset, however, when the various gamblers involved fail to pay their promised money up front. Chicago...
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Journalists