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...Invented Eden attempts to elucidate the convoluted enigmas surrounding the Tasaday and their relationship with the outside world. No one emerges looking very pretty. Elizalde, who died in 1999, was something of a playboy gangster; the first wave of discoverers come across as naive, all too willing to believe the story Elizalde handed them; the debunkers are most ruthless of all, in Hemley's account, out to discredit personally anyone who believes in the Tasaday. If the original story seemed too good to be true, those who debunked it are portrayed here as unscholarly in their methods or worse. Some...
...genius to figure out ways to abuse the French conception of justice. So at around 4:30 a.m., two Wednesday mornings ago, half a dozen criminals attacked the Fresnes prison just outside of Paris. Commando-style, they used machine guns and rocket-propelled grenade launchers to spring Italian gangster Antonio Ferrara from prison...
...crowd of about 200 gathers outside the Ho Chi Minh City People's Court to hear the scuttlebutt on Vietnam's spiciest trial in memory. Nam Cam, Vietnam's most powerful and vicious gangster, is in the dock on seven charges, including murder, along with at least 154 co-accused. He will probably face a firing squad. Suddenly, police throw seven women into a jeep and drive them away. "A threat to the peace," one policeman explains. The women's crime: they were trying to sell fans and cold drinks to the spectators...
...less gentle with his enemies. Cam allegedly neutralized a rival gangster, Le Ngoc Lam, by having henchmen pour acid on the upstart's face. His most famous feud was with a crime queen in the northern province of Hai Phong: Dung Ha, better known as Dung the Lesbian. The two fell out in 2000 after she tried to expand her empire into Saigon. The rivalry escalated after Dung sent Cam a taunting "present" for one of his soir?es: a gift-wrapped box filled with live rats smeared with feces, which upset Cam's party guests. A month later, Dung...
...Caine took two years off to travel and relax, but he wasn't ready to sink into retirement. Jack Nicholson called with a co-starring role in the dark gangster film Blood and Wine, and Caine's golden years kicked in. He galloped from the sleazissimo agent in Little Voice to the kindly abortionist in Cider House, from the beauty-pageant Svengali in Miss Congeniality to a dead Cockney remembered by his friends in Last Orders--winners all. (He also survived Mike Myers' idolatry of Caine's swinging-spy phase in Austin Powers in Goldmember.) Then came Fowler...