Word: crookes
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...compound that desire, of course, is the fact that you've said that you dreamed of being a small time crook growing up. It's a strange statement to make until we actually see this film. This is your fantasy being acted...
...penthouses and pirates. It was really amazing. And when I got older, I realized I could do this by making films - and so every year, I get to live with whatever creatures I've created and their various lives. When I was young, I wanted to be a crook because I didn't want an ordinary life. I wanted an interesting life. And I didn't know if I was talented in any way - I was a magician as a kid and then I went from that to being a gambler. I went from card tricks and hat tricks...
...opening reels of Casablanca, the black-and-white camera pans an urgent city: refugees, politicians and aspirants of all kinds, characters who have reached Morocco by hook or by crook with the eventual goal of making it big in the free world. There are people of all shapes and sizes, accents, backgrounds, ambitions, with little in common except the fact of place, an appreciation of circumstance and a fair amount of airbrushing...
...Much of the war has been waged by proxy on TV, with nasty Sunday-night news battles setting the tone. On ORT, a state-owned network that is largely controlled by Yeltsin supporter Boris Berezovsky, news anchor Sergei Dorenko bludgeons home the idea that Luzhkov is a murderer, a crook, a hypocrite. Yevgeny Kiselev, the main talking head on the private, pro-opposition TV network NTV, tries to defend Fatherland. The pungent, brutal Dorenko seems to be winning, largely because Kiselev often trips over his own convoluted sentences...
...that of the strength and resilience of the human spirit. When asked how he "survived poverty," McCourt said that he did it with a sense of humor, storytelling and "the dream that we were going to get out of that lane-- to get to America by hook or by crook...