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...icon Russell Simmons crowned him the nation's first "hip-hop mayor" and Kilpatrick, now 37, did not try to avoid a life of excess. His first inauguration was marked with "club crawls" (he said they were intended to galvanize Detroit's disaffected youth); he wore a diamond-studded earring and flashy suits; his wife got use of a Lincoln Navigator that was leased for $25,000 by the police department. The two Detroit cops then charged Kilpatrick's bodyguards with abusing overtime and failing to report accidents involving city vehicles. Overtime abuse was never proven, and an accident report...
...Kellaway, replicating in microcosm the now well-established project of each Chevalier novel: to parse out the complexities of a work of art. As in her depiction of Johannes Vermeer’s city of Delft in her 2000 breakaway bestseller “Girl with a Pearl Earring,” Chevalier here evocatively imagines a fictive London surrounding Blake’s creation of the “Songs of Innocence and of Experience.” The year is 1792 and the Kellaway family has just arrived in London from the village of Piddletrenthide in southwest England...
...officer was dispatched to Soldiers Field Park to take a report of a stolen red velvet jewelry bag valued at $20 that contained a silver tennis bracelet valued at $2,000, a gold & pearl bracelet valued at $100, a pair of white crystal earrings valued at $50, a pair of 14-karat gold earrings valued at $100, a copper and crystal Swarovski earring and necklace set valued at $300, a gold and brown crystal necklace valued at $100, and a silver and gold watch valued...
...movie, directed by Peter Webber (Girl With a Pearl Earring) and written by Thomas Harris, author of the novel, is a devolution and devaluation of Hannibal Lecter, the genius-madman-gourmand Harris created in Red Dragon (1981, filmed as Manhunter in 1986 and remade as Red Dragon in 2002) and developed in The Silence of the Lambs (1988, filmed in 1991) and Hannibal (1999, filmed...
...Lambs. The other, just preceding Hannibal's first murder, is the flash of a smile before his face goes blankly ferocious and he proceeds with his butchering. But these are two moments in two hours, and Webber has no other epiphanies to offer. As Girl With the Pearl Earring showed, his tone is contemplative; he has neither the skills nor the taste for the spasms of violence or sexual displays that would zazz up the movie. Poor Hannibal Rising: it lacks even redeeming prurient interest. What's the point of a vegetarian cannibal...