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...Catch Me If You Can" was in essence a much smaller film. Spielberg wanted to keep the pace and the adrenaline going, because he felt that embodied what Frank Abagnale's journey was like. So the shoot was this constant rocket, moving locations, moving from one high-energy scene to the next. And I think it worked - even though I became sick for most of the movie, from all the hours and the locations...
...Intelligence Unit, which, as Mob crime spiraled out of control in the early 1990s, was tasked with taking down the bad guys, guns blazing if necessary. Few mobsters went quietly: police shot 71 in "encounters" in 1997, 83 in 1999 and 97 in 2001. In all, since records of shoot-outs began in 1982, police have killed 1,200 gangsters in and around Bombay...
...Police bosses counter that they are being criticized merely for being better shots than the Mafia. They add that none of the hundreds of complaints alleging staged shoot-outs or executions filed by victims' relatives or human-rights groups?or even a handful of official inquiries?has ever led to a conviction for extrajudicial killing. "The allegations of fake encounters are baseless," says Pradeep Sawant, Bombay's deputy police commissioner. "It's not that we always go to kill. Our idea is to arrest the gangsters. We only retaliate if we're fired upon...
...come to the regrettable conclusion that there is no real alternative." For a professional enforcer like Sharma, success isn't just measured in body bags or reduced gang violence, but invitations to celebrity parties and near unanimous media praise. "I don't enjoy killing," says Sharma. "But after we shoot some mobster, his victims look at me like God. That's the best part...
...pulse quickened. "I'm reading this and I'm thinking, Oh my God, it's [dated] two days after I met with Ken Lay. Talk about shoot the messenger. I can't believe they looked into firing me," she says, sounding wounded even now in the retelling. "It was a horrible response. There's nothing in there to remind them to remember the code of conduct, the vision and values...