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Perhaps a little of both. "There are very big, very important police operations under way [in Britain]," notes a senior French antiterrorist official. "Concern is high that attack plots may be advancing swiftly. I've never seen the British quite this alarmed." British authorities are tight-lipped about their concerns, but the nation has been on its second highest terrorism alert for about a month now. "Given the number of operations by British police," says French terrorism expert Roland Jacquard, "they're apparently going after more than one plot and group." Three weeks ago, London Mayor Ken Livingstone said police...
...VINCI CODE. A key plot point in Dan Brown's best-selling novel, with 4.3 million copies in print, is that the Roman Catholic Church suppressed 80 alternative Gospels, several describing a physical relationship between Jesus and Mary Magdalene...
...movie?s plot hews closely to the book?s. There the heroine was Julie Killeen (the killer colleen); here, Julie Kohler (pronounced ?col?re,? the French word for anger). As Julie, Jeanne Moreau shows no emotion as she executes these men (with a push, a poison, suffocation, an arrow, a knife). The love that spurs her on is not so much post-coital as post-mortem. ?I?m already dead,? she says. ?I died the day he did. When I?m done I?ll join...
...Jean Renoir said every author writes the same story over and over. Woolrich surely did. He?d latch onto a plot, then refine it, try correcting its flaws, in a later novel. In ?Bride? he created a vengeance machine, a killer of all killers; in the 1948 ?Rendezvous in Black? his bitter protagonist decides to kill, not the five men responsible for his girlfriend?s death, but the person each of the presumed guilty men loves most, so that they will live out their lives in grief, as he has. (In 1972 Italian director Umberto Lenzi filmed the novel - without...
...Leave it to the Indians to take the congested saga of ?I Married a Dead Man? - distressed young woman, fatal train wreck, her deception of a loving adoptive family, extortion by the old beau - and pack it with three times the plot, plus songs. Since the movie is both fabulous and obscure, I?ll spell out what happens. This may take a while...