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...last day in office, Clinton gave legal immunity to fugitive billionaire Marc Rich. Rich, who has been living on the lam in Switzerland for the past 17 years, had been wanted by the FBI on 51 counts of tax evasion and "trading with the enemy" in what was deemed the biggest tax swindle in U.S. history, valued at over $48 million. Ever since, he has been living a rather comfortable life in his multi-million-dollar waterfront villa in Switzerland--where he was free from extradition...
...blunders.) Cho's idol is Kim Du Han, the legendary gangster who battled the yakuza during Japan's colonization of the peninsula: "He was 100% nationalist." Cho is helping the families of the men who lopped off their pinkies last August. Some of them are still on the lam, sleeping in abandoned houses in the mountains. (A local police officer says the men are wanted for extortion and other crimes, not for finger cutting...
Three cons (Clooney, Turturro and Nelson) are on the lam in '30s Mississippi. A blind prophet intones, "You shall see a cow on top of a cotton bale, and many other startlements." Startlements are indeed in store: a one-eyed, toad-squishing salesman (Goodman); three maidens washing their laundry in a stream. These, and the name of the bombastic schemer Clooney plays--Everett Ulysses McGill--should be sufficient clues to identify the film's source: "Based on The Odyssey by Homer...
Three cons (Clooney, Turturro and Nelson) are on the lam in '30s Mississippi. A blind prophet intones, "You shall see a cow on top of a cotton bale, and many other startlements." Startlements are indeed in store: a one-eyed, toad-squishing salesman (Goodman); three maidens washing their laundry in a stream. These, and the name of the bombastic schemer Clooney plays - Everett Ulysses McGill - should be sufficient clues to identify the film's source: "based on The Odyssey by Homer." While tout Hollywood purloins comic books for its scenarios, Joel and Ethan Coen raid noble antiquity: not just Homer...
...with the president holed up abroad, his former political fixer on the lam, the civilian politicians unable to agree on a constitutional succession and masses of ordinary Peruvians on the street, the situation may be starting to look an awful lot like a power vacuum to Peru's generals...