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...that she is virtually deaf. She covers this defect by being an expert lip-reader. Now, this is a skill a bad guy can use. Soon she's perched on a rooftop, peering through binoculars, learning the secrets of a criminal gang whose ill-gotten gains he plans to heist. The comedic first part of Jacques Audiard's film doesn't achieve a seamless connection with its melodramatic second half, but you can't deny the originality of his conceit or the tart cynicism of its development...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Wicked Summer Romances | 7/29/2002 | See Source »

ALTERNATE ENDING In the original movie, bank robbers Joe (Bruce Willis) and Terry (Billy Bob Thornton) and their co-conspirators try to pull off a daring heist. The alternate ending gives a glimpse of each of their lives after the spectacular caper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When It Comes to DVDs, It's Not Over Till It's Over | 4/8/2002 | See Source »

...first heist, I headed over to Tower Records. Unbeknownst to me, they were in the midst of their annual “stock-up sale” and I was surrounded by reasonably priced selections. Then I realized that the prices were so low, I was practically stealing from Tower merely by taking advantage of this monumental sales event. After paying the cashier, I walked out with 20 new CDs and some hard evidence for my study. Stealing was pretty easy, perhaps a little too easy. At this point, it looked like thieves should go to jail...

Author: By Vali D. Chandrasekaran, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: {untitled} | 2/21/2002 | See Source »

...only three years after the $127,000 heist from the EWC treasury, scandal shook two highly visible student organizations—the Yearbook and the Krokodiloes, a popular a capella group...

Author: By William M. Rasmussen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Student Theft Runs Deep | 2/11/2002 | See Source »

...their earlier trial and signed on as Emily's attorney again last week. "It's like The Twilight Zone." More of the past may surface if Hearst, who served two years on a different robbery charge, is called to testify. Granted immunity years ago, Hearst described the carefully choreographed heist in her 1982 book, Every Secret Thing, writing that Emily Harris confided she had shot Opsahl, saying "it really doesn't matter. She was a bourgeois pig anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle-Aged Radicals, Plucked from Suburbia | 1/28/2002 | See Source »

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