The supporting cast includes Sean Young as ill-tempered Lois Einhorn, Udo Kier as the sinister Ronald Camp, and rapper Tone Loc as Ace's detective pal Emilio (Loc also wrote and performed a song for the closing credits). ~ Mark Deming, Rovi.
A charge off account is a tax and accounting maneuver done by a creditor. It means that they are reporting the debt as a loss on their income taxes so that they may claim it as a deduction from their income. A charged off debt does not mean that the creditor can't try to collect the debt in the future.
    Paying off charge offs, or collection accounts, do NOT improve your credit score and can under certain circumstances lower the score. This is one of the fallacies about credit. A paid charge off is still considered a derogatory account. By paying off the collection, you will bring the last active date of the collection to the current month (now would be 10/03), and although it will now reflect a $0 balance, the fact that you have a recently active collection on your credit report is more derogatory than an old collection with a balance.