Word: rat
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...security guarantees. Principal trial attorney Geoffrey Nice was in Belgrade last month interviewing key figures whose testimony would be invaluable. They included Rade Markovic, once head of state security, now in a Belgrade prison facing murder charges: the threat of a long prison sentence might persuade him to rat on his old boss. Nice also interviewed Mihalj Kertes, former chief of the powerful customs service, and the notorious Franko "Frenki" Simatovic, the commander of the feared Red Berets, a police unit accused of spearheading ethnic cleansing from Croatia to Kosovo. Three men indicted with Milosevic - ex-Defense Minister Dragoljub Ojdanic...
...land of William Blake, the mystic poet and proto-comix artist, and Alan Moore, the mystic contempo-comix writer. Appearing mostly in the British small press (i.e. photocopied) scene, "Abe" gathers together almost fifty short pieces that have appeared over the last fifteen years. They all star Abe Rat, an ironically cruel name for a nebbishy character who mostly just wants to figure out what makes him happy...
...records. "With many of 2001's big hits, the draw was not a star but a concept," says Paul Dergarabedian, president of the box-office tracking firm Exhibitor Relations. There were exceptions, of course; Ocean's Eleven is on track to earn $200 million domestically, thanks largely to neo-Rat Pack stars like George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts. But not one of the year's Top 10 moneymakers featured an A-list star, unless you count Eddie Murphy's voice in the animated Shrek. Are studio execs wising up? "A lot of people in the movie business...
...Danny Ocean (George Clooney) quizzes his ex (Julia Roberts) about her new beau. "Does he make you laugh like I did?" he asks, and she douses the flame by replying, "He doesn't make me cry like you did." Other than that, this remake of the 1960 Rat Pack caper doesn't offer much. The stars, including Matt Damon and Brad Pitt, hit their marks and smile a lot. The ending hints at a sequel (Ocean's 12? Ocean's 22?), but you've seen this one. Rent a video of Topkapi instead...
...captures the weary, seasoned older guard while young upstart Mormon brothers Virgil and Turk Malloy (Casey Affleck and Scott Caan respectively) bicker constantly throughout and serve as comic foils to the rest of the crew. They are caricatures, but they are also depicted with unabashed glee, a homage to Rat Pack’s brazen, fraternizing spirit...