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...broadly ambitious work yet. Not satisfied with condemning the housing and banking crises of the past year, he expands the story of the financial collapse into an epic of malfeasance--capital crimes on an international scale. The movie also has the requisite Moore grandstanding scenes: attempting a citizen's arrest of AIG executives, parking a Brink's truck in front of banking establishments to retrieve the bailout billions they received, wrapping the New York Stock Exchange building in yellow tape that reads CRIME SCENE. The Underdog telling off the overlord: it's a fixture of earnest Hollywood drama...
...Soldiers arrest Zelaya during a predawn raid and force him out of the country at gunpoint. He is flown to Costa Rica, still wearing his pajamas...
Julia and Valentina flit off to London to their luxurious new apartment--which turns out to be haunted by Elspeth, who is perplexed to discover that she has become a ghost. "What am I supposed to be learning from the spiritual equivalent of house arrest?" she wonders. "Is this an oversight on the part of the celestial authorities?" She can't leave the apartment, though she can, with great effort, nudge physical objects. (Thus vindicating the "noetic science" of Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol...
...Polanski's attempts to appeal his arrest and extradition to the United States fail and he is forced back to Los Angeles, he could face up to four years in state prison for the initial crime he pleaded guilty to before fleeing the United States. He could also face a maximum of three additional years served consecutively if the courts decide to charge him under California state penal code 3059 for leaving the state without permission. "I think it would be very unlikely that he would get that, but that's probably what's possible," says Levenson...
...staffers who know him said they were baffled by his arrest on Thursday on a charge of attempted grand larceny after he allegedly tried to get Letterman to pay him $2 million for a "screenplay" he was writing about the late-night host's sexual affairs. Halderman has pleaded not guilty to the charge, which is punishable by up to 15 years in prison. (See the top 10 disastrous David Letterman interviews...