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...conscientious member of the Cannes critics' corps will see five or six new films a day. We're meant to attend all 21 features in competition for the Palme d'Or, plus special screenings (like Sunday's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull), and another 20 or so in the sidebar program called Un Certain Regard. But there are times when a Pied Piper stands outside our classroom, luring us to play hooky...
Early in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - which had its tumultuous world premiere today at the Cannes Film Festival - our hero (Harrison Ford) and his sometime pal Mac (Ray Winstone) come up against a convoy of tough Russians. "This ain't gonna be easy," Mac says, and Indy replies, "Not as easy as it used...
...There's enough drama, comedy and heartbreak in this trio to keep festivalgoers satisfied until Sunday, when Hollywood gets one last chance to prove that old-fashioned adventure has a place in Cannes - when Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has its world premiere. (Check back tomorrow for an early scoop on Indy's latest crusade...
...Next Sunday, the anticipation and star quality will be even higher when Cannes hosts the world premiere of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, produced by George Lucas, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Shia LaBeouf and Cate Blanchett. For once, the interest back home will be rabid, since this is the movie's very first showing to public or reviewers. More than U.S. publications has sent its movie critic here only because Indy 4 will be screened in Cannes a few hours before it can be seen in the States...
...specialist crime directorate of Britain's Metropolitan Police, at a conference in Liverpool earlier this year, "manifesting itself in all kinds of ways; from Chinese DVD sellers - which can involve murders, trafficking and kidnap - to Romanian gangs of bag snatchers using young children trafficked into the United Kingdom...