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Perhaps the burglary business will pick up, we think. After all, the setting does look like the Gay Nineties, the heroes are whisking between London and Paris, and we know the industrial revolution has left a lot of nouveau riche loot lying around. Yet Belmondo keeps running into pushovers--sycophantic social climbers and corrupt concubines--and it looks as though all of Paris has conspired to make his capers unchallenging. After a half-a-film full of perfunctory purloining, he hopes to gain fresh inspiration from a legendary thief, Cannonier, recently released from Devil's Island. But Cannonier has gone...
...instead of a wit, and a coward instead of a discreetly valorous realist. There were good explanations (ignored by Shakespeare) for each of his acts of apparent cowardice. Says Falstaff. Naturally a fighter of his experience and ferocity could have vanquished the disguised Prince Hal, when Hal stole his loot from him after the highway robbery lark (Henry IV, Part I) at Gadshill. But that would have destroyed the confidence of the next King of England, so Falstaff let Hal win. And as for stabbing dead Hotspur and claiming to have killed him in battle, well, Hotspur might not really...
...Crystal Balls on the Bus." In a survey of bizarre editorial writing, More came across the Philadelphia Daily News's Richard Aregood, who plugs away at strange causes in an extremely eye-catching way. The seeming abundance of Jews in the media was explored. The magazine was littered with loot, almost as if More's editors had collected little gems for the past few years and decided all at once to show us their splendid collection...
...nightclub hostess, De Vathaire claimed he had loaned the Dassault dossier to his new friend, Kay, who failed to return it. According to De Vathaire, Kay threatened to kill him and demanded money in exchange for the dossier. Whether to yield to his blackmailer, to divvy up the loot with his accomplice, or just to relax with a pal, De Vathaire met with Kay at a resort hotel near the Swiss border after the theft, whereupon both men vanished. So did the 8 million francs. Last week Kay phoned a Paris newspaper from his hideaway, declaring, "I had nothing...
What finally stopped the robbers was the rise of water in the sewage system, the result of heavy late-weekend rains. Otherwise, they might have doubled or trebled their loot. Said one policeman: "If it hadn't rained, God knows how much more they would have taken...