Word: caper
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...Nocturne," convalescing after facial surgery in a swanky L.A. hotel. Here she meets the narrator, Steve, who is her neighbor in the adjacent room and is there for identical reasons. Steve is a struggling saxophonist who never managed to hit the big time; together, they get involved in a caper, which, for all its superficial childishness, shines a rueful light on two related kinds of failure. In "Malvern Hills," a young man, with ambitions of becoming an indie singer-songwriter, spends a summer at his sister's café in the Malvern Hills and meets a middle-aged Swiss couple...
...order of publishing, it made sense that the church would initially allow Langdon to pursue his doctrinal theories. In the order of the movies, though, it beggars belief that Langdon, having exposed a truth the Vatican has suppressed for millennia, would be asked to consult on the kidnapped-Cardinals caper. Yet apparently L'Osservatore Romano doesn't hold a grudge. After all the Da Vinci grief, it gives a thumbs-up to the new movie - or, in the unlikely event the review was written by a clergywoman, a nuns...
...could churn out military music in a minor key, like a sarcastic Sousa; that's what you hear under the espionage chicanery in Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz, ornamenting the anti-Nazi smuggling in John Frankenheimer's The Train and underlining the grand folly of two British soldiers' Afghanistan caper in John Huston's The Man Who Would Be King. At times Jarre mocked his own mocking tone, as when he connived with Zucker in the spy parody Top Secret...
...Duplicity, writer-director Tony Gilroy's follow-up to Michael Clayton, Roberts shares star billing with Clive Owen, but it's not a Julia Roberts Movie. The film is a nimble, witty whirligig of a caper, and it's no criticism to say Paul Giamatti, playing an insecure loon of a CEO, and Tom Wilkinson, as his devious rival, snatch the spotlight from the pretty people every chance they get. So does the timeline, which bounces around far more than Roberts' glossy tresses. The role of Claire Stenwick, a former CIA operative now playing the espionage game in the highly...
...Richardson was born in London in 1963, when her mother was still a promising young actress. At the time, Natasha's father, film director Tony Richardson, was the more famous parent; that year he directed the 18th-century caper-comedy Tom Jones, winning Oscars for the picture and himself. Natasha made her film debut at the age of 4 in Dad's revisionist take on The Charge of the Light Brigade. By then, Redgrave had become the brightest new light of stage (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie) and screen (Morgan, Blowup, Camelot.) Having separated from Richardson, Redgrave took...