The story of his boyhood is remembered without nostalgia, but with lyrical intensity, counterpointed with the emotional return of grownup Dito, played by Robert Downey Jr, who left all his friends behind to become a famous writer in California, using their desperate lives as lucrative raw material.
Whereas end-of-life tires add tons of waste a year for disposal in many areas, in Europe they are turning into a potentially lucrative secondary raw material.
There are the natural-resource barons who grabbed the country's oil, gas and mineral riches after the collapse of communism; there are managers adroit at siphoning off their firm's revenues for personal gain; there are monopolists and cartel-mongers, who use connections to squash competition, and thus make such businesses as selling petrol or building materials fantastically lucrative.
The fact that it is common in musical revivals to rework the unsung material – a lucrative early job for Stephen Fry was tickling up Douglas Furber and L Arthur Rose's script for the 80s London restaging of Noel Gay's Me and My Girl – confirms how difficult it can be to give characters two different reasons to open their mouths.
The election is notorious for allegations that Borja bought the votes of his electors, promising them lucrative appointments and other material gifts a practice known as simony.
Investment banks poured money into housing because mortgages had become raw materials for a lucrative business churning out mortgage-backed securities.
In the prelude to the Great Recession, as major Wall Street banks turned sub-prime home mortgages into the raw materials for a lucrative trade in securities, bankers generally got what they wanted, according to insider accounts.
It has been suggested by some scientists that one NEA may host trillions of dollars' worth of natural materials, making it a lucrative business for private investors and business professionals to pursue.
There are the giant music, movie and publishing companies, who support the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act because it gives copyright holders an extra 20 years to exploit lucrative songs, stories and brand-name material.
Some small towns are refusing to recycle some material, particularly the less lucrative plastics and metals, and experts say more are likely to do so if the price slump persists.
