Word: caperers
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...studios sensibly scale down. Troubled Universal's modest non-Hulk slate now includes the biotech scare show Virus, the George Clooney caper Out of Sight and Terry Gilliam's dopester saga Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, with Johnny Depp--not just an anti-summer summer movie but an anti-Hollywood Hollywood movie...
...similar case of good ingredients overwhelmed by sauce. Tender, delicious raw scallops, peppered beef, and tuna arrived on a platter elegantly garnished by veggies and greens. Each variety of carpaccio was doused liberally with a different sauce: scallops were accompanied by red pepper vinaigrette, beef by creamy caper sauce, and tuna by an unidentifiable dressing that looked like Russian dressing and tasted of anchovies. The result was a slightly heavy-handed conflict of flavors...
...hours, it all plays like the rough assembly of a 90-min. caper film--an anecdote told at epic length. Grier, foxy lady of '70s blaxploitation, is given little chance to radiate; you never even glimpse her magnificent shoulders. As for Tarantino, he is playing peekaboo with his sizable talent. Jackie Brown marks time, lots of it, between Pulp Fiction and his next great project...
Literally thousands of leads later, in a case that once had 30 FBI agents assigned to it, not a piece has been recovered and not a person has been arrested. Certain elements of the caper--the brutish way in which some paintings were cut from frames, the valuable pieces left behind, the code of silence that has kept a lid on the mystery--add to the intrigue...
...enough, the Rembrandt he lusted after was stolen. Connor, who once took several slugs in a blazing gun battle with a Boston police officer, says, "There isn't a museum in the world that's invulnerable" to a true professional. He won't say exactly how the Fine Arts caper came off, or even admit to the theft. But he arranged the return of the Rembrandt later that year--in exchange for avoiding prison after pleading guilty to the theft of Andrew Wyeth paintings from an estate in Maine...