Word: thief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...miniseries on CBS. Why another recounting? "This is an endlessly fascinating and timeless story," defends executive producer Frank Konigsberg before hinting at the tragedy's real resonance for Hollywood types. "It's like the opening night of the biggest movie in the world flopping." This Titanic features a shipboard thief-rapist, played with curious jauntiness by Tim Curry. Unlike his doomed fellow passengers, Curry's character manages to escape from lines like "The ocean is so big, isn't it? It makes one feel so small and insignificant...
Arts and Sciences Computer Services Director Franklin M. Steen said he believes the thief or thieves entered the offices from the library through an emergency door which connects the two areas. Recent construction extended the offices into space previously occupied by the library...
...Dole is so bent on exposing what he calls Clinton's "Me, too" practice of snatching his ideas that his campaign has been releasing a "Commander in Thief Watch." (It asks, "If you have no ideas of your own, why not steal someone else's?") But it seems that the plainspoken Kansan is not above a little political plagiarism himself...
Clearly a project for which Jane Seymour was not approached, Once a Thief is nevertheless a perfectly viable movie-of-the-week, one in which Woo has tempered his darker instincts. Present are his trademark slow-motion shots, ingeniously choreographed fisticuffs and gunplay--yet nary a visible drop of blood is shed...
...charm of Once a Thief is that nearly every moment is played with a wink--the almost nonstop score has the giddy feel of music that might accompany a Stanley Donen caper, while the clipped pace of the showdowns gives the movie the tone of a Power Rangers episode with wit. Newcomer Sergei proves himself an appealing comedian as he smugly cuts down his rivals' big plans with lines like "Keep dreamin', Serpico." The movie ends with Sergei and Holt poised for further adventures. A series maybe...