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...this speculation seems somewhat foolish once you've seen the Swedish film adaptation of Dragon Tattoo, subtitled in English and arriving in America this week after storming the European box office. The Lisbeth you know from the books (and an awful lot of you do know her - the paperback of Dragon Tattoo just finished its 36th week on the New York Times bestseller list) as a flat-chested Swedish girl with spiky hair, punk clothing, black lipstick and a bracingly bad attitude toward rules, has already been found. Her name is Noomi Rapace and she owns the part...
...half hours long, but it whisks along in a business-like way, not sparing a minute for red herrings. The only times it slows down are during a couple of grisly, graphic moments involving rape and torture - scenes that are hard to endure, even if readers of the book know they're coming. The supporting characters are less memorable on screen than on the page; Taube's Henrik in particular sadly doesn't make much of an impression, while Lena Endre is an outright weak choice to play Blomkvist's editor Erika Berger. But if Dragon Tattoo gives short shrift...
...should’ve been a pretty close game, 8-8 going into the late innings, [but] next thing you know it’s 12-6,” Walsh said...
...played really well,” Lee said of playing outdoors for the first time since the fall. “I was really surprised, actually...I didn’t really know what it would be like being outside again, but to play well is definitely a confidence booster for the upcoming season...
...suicidal terrorism, and there had been a failure to connect the dots, I thought, This is 9/11, only in 1983. This theme keeps repeating, so from the standpoint of a narrative, I realized you have to start in 1983 to understand how far back this actually goes and to know that what we know of as the "war on terror" is not something that began after 9/11. It really began almost 25 years...