Word: caper
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...Soderbergh once wrote, directed, photographed and starred in (playing two roles, of course). It might also be the name of the artistic fiefdom he has created. Few Hollywood directors have such a distinct signature--or, rather, two of them. One part of Soderbergh's brain makes can't-miss caper films and weepie dramas (Ocean's Eleven, Erin Brockovich) with the town's priciest talent. Another part is indelibly indie: he will shoot an ad-lib HBO series about lobbyists (K Street), or remake a mystical Russian sci-fi art film (Solaris). Not everything works, but it's more than...
...Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr and flew him to Cairo--where the Islamic cleric claims he was tortured; to throw the Italians off the scent, the CIA reportedly told them that Nasr had fled to the Balkans. The Italian government publicly denies the U.S. insistence that the CIA cleared the caper with Rome's intelligence service in advance, and this summer an Italian court issued arrest warrants for 22 CIA operatives allegedly involved. Milan prosecutors had no difficulty identifying the officers from cell-phone records and a trail of credit-card charges left at hotels and restaurants. "The spooks aren...
...enough rebellion for a while because the movie he made after Brokeback is the ultimate heterosexual fantasy. In Casanova, out Christmas Day, directed by Hallstrom, he's the swashbuckling charmer for whom his fans have been waiting. It's a very Disney Casanova, with minimal sex and maximal caper (Hot-air balloons! Masked balls! Duels! Mistaken identities!). Ledger, who plays the legendary lover, opposite Sienna Miller, is not too proud to admit that the appeal of the movie lay more in a 120-day shoot in Venice, where he could unwind from Brokeback, than in any nuances of script (although...
...privately gloried in my first little white lie pronounced for ‘the cause,’” she wrote. “I cut a little caper just to relieve my feelings...
...kill from the producers of the James Bond films last week. He also brings one novel quality to the $4 billion franchise: a blond pate--less obvious here, thanks to hair gel and lighting. The naming of Craig, best known for his roles in last year's gangster caper Layer Cake and as Paul Newman's son in 2002's Road to Perdition, ends the papal-succession-like speculation about who will play Bond in the iconic character's 23rd movie, Casino Royale (not to be confused with the 1967 parody movie of the same name). Producers dropped the fifth...