Word: caper
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...film ends, more or less, with a goofy caper that actually happened. Tobias was desperate to leave his stepfather and the high-school tough-guy character he had invented for himself. He sent off for some prep-school applications, persuaded a friend to steal high school transcript forms, wrote glowing reference letters and actually succeeded in being admitted to the prestigious Hill School in Pennsylvania. Years after he and his brother had got to know and love each other again, he admitted the scam to the somewhat more proper Geoffrey, who, profoundly shocked and sure he was seeing a reincarnation...
...worst gimmick of the season: each week's account of a crime and its subsequent investigation is interrupted by "interviews" with the key participants, conducted by an unseen questioner who sounds like a cross between smarmy therapist and Grand Inquisitor. The show is an odd mixture of '60s-style caper film (the crimes are quaint jewel heists and embezzlement schemes) and third-rate thirtysomething (hip relationship talk between the featured detectives). It deserves a quiet execution...
...video game. The first ever interactive movie, I'm Your Man, which opened last week in New York, is a high-tech picture puzzle that allows an audience to pick its protagonist and plot the action. Choices come along every 90 seconds or so in this campy 20- minute caper, and viewers vote with a three-button pistol grip installed on their armrests. The on-screen tallies are instantaneous, thanks to laser-disc technology, and the majority rules. This first film (soon in seven more theaters), has 68 possible permutations. The result is a high-decibel headache . . . or funfest, depending...
SOMEONE TOLD ELIZABETH TAMPOSI TO SEARCH through Bill Clinton's passport files last fall. That at least will be the working hypothesis of the special prosecutor, named at the urging of Attorney General William Barr, to investigate lingering questions about a campaign caper that threatens to involve officials in the outgoing Bush White House. Chief of staff James Baker and his aides insist they didn't. But their statements contain troubling omissions and inconsistencies. Other evidence suggests that top Bush aides were desperate to confirm -- and publicize -- a rumor (false as it turned out) that the youthful Clinton had taken...
CINEMA Robert Redford sneaks through an endearing caper...