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...which has not much at all to do with Fargo, North Dakota--is about the difficulty real folks have pulling off crimes that always go smoothly in fiction. Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy) needs a lot of cash, so he hires two thugs (Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare) to kidnap his wife for the ransom money. But these guys aren't smooth criminals; they go nuts trying to put on a galosh or scrape the ice off their windshield. Two incompetent murders later, police chief Marge Gunderson (Frances McDormand) commences her investigation. And the bad guys get the frozen sweats...
...which has not much at all to do with Fargo, North Dakota -- is about the difficulty real folks have pulling off crimes that always go smoothly in fiction. Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy) needs a lot of cash, so he hires two thugs (Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare) to kidnap his wife for the ransom money. But these guys aren't smooth criminals; they go nuts trying to put on a galosh or scrape the ice off their windshield. In the end, though, "'Fargo' is all attitude and low aptitude," Corliss notes. "Its function is to italicize the Coens' giddy...
...Justice Department arrested dozens of people after the FBI cracked a nationwide computer child porn ring. Federal agents conducted a two-year investigation of the pornographers, who used America Online to distribute child pornography and kidnap minors. The Justice Department said that while its investigation centered on AOL, the nation's largest online service with 3.5 million subscribers, agents have found pornography on all the major services. American Online says it alerted authorities, and said that while conversations between members are private, it does not knowingly tolerate the use of its network for illegal activities...
Later, when Diego leaves the room for a little while, the group agrees he is the type to kidnap someone...
Jury selection will begin in another high-profile child murder case Tuesday as the trial of Richard Davis begins. Davis is accused of the 1993 kidnap and murder of 12-year old Polly Klaas. Davis, who led police to the body, said he was in a drug-induced haze when he took Polly from her Petaluma, Calif. bedroom and later strangled her. If convicted, Davis could get the death penalty...