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Vaghar’s alleged scam involved listing her Cambridge apartment for rent on Craigslist.org, convincing interested renters to pay her the first and last month’s rent, and then at the last minute making up sob stories??€”such as the death or sickness of one of her parents—to back out of the deal. The scam left victims struggling for months with a trail of excuses and bad checks in an effort to recover their money...
...alleged scam involved listing her Cambridge apartment for rent on Craigslist.org, convincing interested renters to pay her the first and last month’s rent, and then at the last minute making up sob stories??€”such as the death or sickness of one of her parents—to back out of the deal. The scam left victims struggling for months with a trail of excuses and bad checks in an effort to recover their money...
Over the next 14 weeks I wrote 20 stories??€”a moderate count for most Crimson writers, but not too shabby. I was in. And six months later—one year after my first story—I had somehow stumbled into an executive position...
Part three of Lucas Belvaux’s The Trilogy comes to the Brattle to finish the series. Each one features interlocking stories??€”a major character in one is a minor one in the next—and is done as a different genre—the first and second films were a thriller and a comedy, respectively—leaving this melodrama to complete the story. This features Pascal, a cop and his heroin abuser wife that he loves too much to cut her off. In fact, he does whatever he can to make sure...
Lucas Belvaux’s The Trilogy continues with Part 2: An Amazing Couple. The experiment of The Trilogy is to have three films with interlocking stories??€”main characters in each one have brief appearances in the others—each made in a different genre. An Amazing Couple is the romantic comedy of the set, featuring a sensitive hypochondriac named Alain Costes and his wife, Cecile. Alain misunderstands a need for a minor operation as an indication that he is soon to die. Deciding to keep his wife from worry, he secretively visits doctor after doctor, arousing...