Thus, Reed, in addition to the money he was making on franchise fees and inflated prices for Nevada entities, gained a wholly-undeserved reputation as the go-to guy for asset protection.
Ms. Ephron's Mike McAlary is a hard-drinking tough-guy Irish reporter who lets fame and money go to his head and turns into a jerk, and Mr. Hanks, here as always, is too ingratiating ever to let himself become truly unlikable.