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...form, it's a rococo mix of Citizen Kane and The Third Man: a study of a rich man's power and isolation amid the seedy, greedy flotsam of postwar Europe. In a way, this is a do-it-yourself Kane. It's the viewer's job to sleuth for the real Arkadin--a film that is its own Rosebud...
...Moore's political take, Fahrenheit 9/11, scared up $119 million at the domestic box office, and ABC is preparing a mini-series based on The 9/11 Commission Report, with Stephen Root as terrorism czar Richard A. Clarke and Harvey Keitel as John O'Neill, the FBI's al-Qaeda sleuth who died in the World Trade Center carnage. Flight 93, a TV movie about the same events shown in United 93, reaped the A&E Network's all-time highest ratings and stoked no protests...
EMMA ROBERTS is on the case. The star of Nickelodeon's Unfabulous and the new movie Aquamarine--who shares the broad, screen-ready smile of her aunt Julia (yes, that Julia)--plays the preppy, resourceful teen sleuth in next year's movie Nancy Drew. The plot has Nancy joining her dad on a business trip to Los Angeles and finding herself (by golly!) probing the death of a movie star. Roberts, 15, calls her character, first introduced in novels in the 1930s, "the Barbie of her time," meaning, we suppose, an icon. Either that or a well-dressed gal with...
Armed with a comprehensive knowledge of the Hardy Boys canon and a working understanding of Cam Jansen, I started putting the wild adventures of teenage sleuth Fred Flight to paper. In one chapter, a ninja star ices Fred’s friend in the jungles; in another, terrorists blow up a gas station as Fred narrowly rolls away to safety...
This stealthy approach to quality control got its start in the late 1980s, mainly in the restaurant and retail businesses. There's even a trade group, the Mystery Shoppers Providers Association (MSPA), representing about 1 million secret shoppers and 150 member companies with names like Guest Check and Service Sleuth. The hospitality industry is new turf for these shopping-mall snoops, and increasingly, secret shoppers like Pokodner have become secret travelers, checking up on the world's vacation spots...