Unfortunately, the writers, Kario Salem, Lem Dobbs, and Scott Marshall Smith, and the director, Frank Oz, worked out the plot without working out how the audience should feel about anything that happens.

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New York-based Extension Entertainment Inc. was founded by Dan Kantor, Charles Smith, and Marshall Jones in March 2010.

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Both Ms. Smith and the son have also died, and their heirs are battling over whether some of Mr. Marshall's large fortune was owed to Ms. Smith.

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Waitt, who sports casual clothes and shaggy strawberry-blond hair, is one of myriad monied outsiders buying their way into show business, including Marshall Field heir Frederick (Ted) Field and Federal Express founder Frederick Smith.

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