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Ideal Date: If “date” refers to the person...James Franco. If it refers to the activity...anything with James Franco...
...other stars start coming out of the woodwork. Mark Wahlberg makes a memorable appearance as a security intelligence expert who refuses to put his shirt on. Ray Liotta plays a stereotypical mob boss by the name of Joe Miletto, Leighton Meester pops up as a scheming babysitter, and James Franco and Mila Kunis play the petty criminals for whom the Fosters are being mistaken. At times it’s a bit distracting, but each star makes a small but satisfying contribution to the movie...
...indictment reflects a lingering unwillingness to reopen the wounds of the civil war, which is evidenced by the fact that Manos Limpias was joined in its complaint by Franco's old fascist party, the Falange. Gónzalo Martínez-Fresneda, Garzón's lawyer, says a message has been sent to other magistrates that "they should not investigate the Franco regime's crimes or question the law of amnesty." If Garzón is convicted, he won't face any jail time but he could be removed from the bench for up to 20 years. (Read: "Exhuming...
...answer to that question may have less to do with the divisiveness surrounding the memories of the Franco regime than with Garzón himself. The man the media routinely calls "superjudge" is perhaps the world's leading practitioner of universal jurisdiction, a legal principle that holds that in crimes of exceptional gravity, the right to render judgment is not limited to the country where the crime was committed. Garzón is seen as a crusading hero by many leftists for using the principle to order the arrest of Pinochet in London in 1998 (the U.K. later refused...
...Cumplutense University and a colleague of Garzón's. "And the Spanish judiciary doesn't typically look well on magistrates who draw attention to themselves." That may be an understatement. There are currently two other pending cases against the judge in addition to the one involving the Franco investigation. Garzón is also being investigated for dismissing financial misappropriation charges against Emilio Botín, the director of Banco Santandar, after the bank sponsored a course at New York University in which the judge was a participant. He's also being investigated for his allegedly inappropriate ordering...