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There are enough complications in this relationship to fill a book--or a screenplay. But for Leonard and his smart adapters--director Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter Scott Frank--that's just a promising beginning. There's a tricky diamond heist to be not quite perpetrated and many wild cards to be dealt into surprising, plausible play. Notable jokers in this deck include Ving Rhames and Steve Zahn as Foley's accomplices--the former prone to careless confession, the latter a blitzed former hippie not sharp enough for the criminal life--and a comically menacing Don Cheadle making Albert Brooks' white...
Just one week later, bullets flew through acrowded Harvard Square as an armored car drivertried to choke an attempted heist. The onlyvictims of his gunfire were two of the assailants.But the March 2 shootout made it an eventfulafternoon for passerby...
When they move up to the big cities, they make a farce of a Toronto heist and a near tragedy out of an Illinois train robbery. Linklater isn't quite skilled enough to make a virtue of these mood shifts and settles for a tone of wry, slightly distant amiability. The result is an agreeable movie, but one that is lacking the edge and intensity that films more self- consciously aware of their moral ambiguities sometimes generate...
...lover--and accused killer--Thomas Capano. After Capano was arrested, Faltermayer staked out O'Friel's pub, unofficial headquarters of the hunt for Fahey--or her murderer. For Faltermayer, detective stories are becoming familiar territory. She reported on a 1977 Philadelphia slaying and on the 1990 art heist at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Says she: "I feel as if I've taken a crash FBI course at Quantico...
...working every day with the same vigor that you had on Day One." Hanging over his desk, to keep the vigor up, is his going-away present from the guys in Boston: a poster of Vermeer's The Concert, the most valuable piece in the biggest, most confounding art heist in American history...