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...late 1930s, an Austrian businessman named Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson) arrives in Krakow, Poland, intent on making his fortune. He aims, in his own words, to leave with "two steamer trunks full of money." Schindler is a dazzlingly charismatic man, the ultimate seducer, who, according to Spielberg, "romances the entire city of Krakow,...romances the Nazis,...romances the politicians, the police chiefs, the women...
After New York's World Trade Center is rocked by a thundering explosion, police round up a string of Arab immigrants as suspects, including an Egyptian radical who was admitted to the U.S. by mistake. Off the shore of New York's Long Island, a rusty tramp steamer called the Golden Venture runs aground, disgorging nearly 300 frightened Chinese trying to enter the country illegally; 10 die. Newly elected President Bill Clinton, reneging on a campaign promise, denies entry to Haitian boat people, then is blindsided by hostile public reaction when his first two choices for Attorney General turn...
...throw off slavish devotion to one country's brewed beverage only to have their descendants pledge allegiance to another? If we are to save the Square--nay, the Nation--from the advancing tide of coffee snobbery, we have little choice. We must dress up as Brits, board the next steamer in from Zimbabwe or Colombia and hurl the sacks of the offending gourmet bean into the Boston Harbor...
...drums and submerged in local canals. The skeletal remains of another was found stuffed beneath a rotting mattress near Kennedy Airport. (Investigators located the remains only after Rifkin told them where to look.) Suddenly, a perpetrator had emerged for unsolved mysteries -- a body found two years ago in a steamer trunk adrift in the Harlem River; a torso and dismembered limbs discovered last summer floating off Manhattan. A bloodied wheelbarrow and a chainsaw found in Rifkin's garage suggested macabre labors...
...context, save one or two lines adapted to read "The South" instead of "Messina." This leads to baffling conundrums: where do you find the balconies and gardens on a riverboat? Why are war-weary veterans holidaying on the water with the governor of Messina? What kind of steamer comes complete with a crypt? This hare-brained Steamboat Willie hybrid smacks of direction for direction's sake...