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...rest of the morning went relatively smoothly. I downloaded a song or two from the Apple Music Store, burned a CD and in a matter of minutes was pumping Lou Reed through the sound system in our playroom. When lunch rolled around, I volunteered to make Monte Cristo sandwiches--first paying a quick visit to google.com to search for a recipe. The sandwich turned out to be your basic French toast with some turkey, ham and cheese. It would have been no trouble at all if it hadn't been for the splatter from the frying egg--drenched toast that...
...place the book in the great tradition of moralistic French thrillers. The scene where the author, just released from prison, emerges from the jungle on foot to deliver a secret communiqu? from the Khmer Rouge to the French charg? d'affaires is straight out of The Count of Monte Cristo...
...look for levity in The Passion, an account of the day Jesus was crucified starring James Caviezel (The Count of Monte Cristo) as Christ and Italian sex diva Monica Bellucci (soon to be seen in Matrix 2 and 3) as Mary Magdalene. Gibson is life-after-deathly serious about the project, which his production company is financing on an estimated budget of $25 million. (He doesn't yet have a distributor.) "This has been germinating inside me for 10 years," he says. "I have a deep need to tell this story. It's part of your upbringing...
...escape? Will he get his revenge? It's an old story--The Count of Monte Cristo by way of TV's The Prisoner--but Fry (who played the pompous detective in Gosford Park) has the wit and erudition to make it run like a well-made pocket watch. Be warned: the vengeance promised by the title has an unabashedly nasty flavor that's distinctly British and quite refreshing compared with our more Puritanical American brand...
German basic-cable subscribers can watch as many as 30 channels that air popular game shows like Wanna Bet? or mini-series like The Count of Monte Cristo for $10 to $20 a month, which is typically included in apartment rents. To complicate matters, German cable providers don't own the "last mile"--the wire into the home. That privilege is reserved for thousands of so-called Level 4 operators, made up of everyone from real estate companies to apartment-house owners. "The oddest part of it all is that the cable operators themselves don't get the lion...