Word: jackal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jackal's Day ? in Court Carlos the Jackal goes on trial in Paris Friday. Could this international terrorist come to be seen as the anti-James Bond...
PARIS: Not even the lingering nostalgia for communism in French society will give Carlos the Jackal much sympathy during his trial which started here Friday...
...Born Illich Ramirez Sanchez in Venezuela in 1949, the man later known as Carlos the Jackal was a red-diaper baby ? hence Illich, Lenin?s middle name ? sent by his wealthy communist parents to university in Moscow...
...self-styled "professional revolutionary," Carlos managed to evade Western security services for 21 years. The Jackal (so named by a journalist who found a copy of Fredrick Forsyth's "Day of the Jackal" in his abandoned bag) is alleged to have committed at least 20 spectacular terrorist attacks ? and caused more than 80 deaths...
Director Michael Caton-Jones has created a confused jumble of bad accents, loud music, stale techno-babble and Richard Gere in a lifeless remake of the 1973 hit The Day of the Jackal. Traveling by minivan and rotating haircolors faster than Dennis Rodman, The Jackal (Bruce Willis) stalks a mystery target while the FBI scrambles to catch up with him, using the expertise of former IRA terrorist Declan Mulqueen (Richard Gere). When Mulqueen and Jackal finally meet, sparks fly...and a gay kiss occurs. OK, not really, but it sure would make this dopey flick a lot more interesting...