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That's because the film, which took director and co-writer Eric Van Looy eight years to mount, so patiently and intelligently builds out from its gimmicky premise. To be sure, it contains more than enough colorfully staged capital crimes to satisfy its more bloodthirsty viewers, but those events take place within a densely layered plot and moral climate. The hired killer, Ledda (Jan Decleir), is a consummate and seemingly phlegmatic professional, now secretly shaken by the knowledge that his mental lights are dimming...
...Among the many awaiting evacuation at Lakefront was Dorothy Route, 80. Accompanied by her two-year old dachshund Shadow and her brother Van Laurant, 78, who has alzheimers, she had run into looters while trying to drive through the waters out of the city. They had very charitably given her raw chicken taken from a freezer of a Church's chicken restaurant. But then they stripped her red Jeep Cherokee of its battery. The car eventually went underwater. Rescued by chopper, she and Shadow, were trying to make sure Van didn't wander off. "He don't know what happened...
Until 20 years ago, Vancouver's Main Street - an artery running from Chinatown toward South Vancouver - marked the boundary between the city's smarter West Side and the rough-and-ready section known as East Van. How times have changed. Successive waves of artists, media types and other loft dwellers kicked off a gradual process of gentrification; the day young families started infiltrating its neighborhoods, East Van's journey to respectability was complete. One knock-on effect of this has been the tidying up of Main Street itself. Cafés and galleries have mushroomed there; so have boutiques - particularly...
...made him want to stick a hot poker in his ears. A few weeks earlier, in New York City, an angry Mayor Michael Bloomberg said a very bad word because 101.1 Jack FM replaced his beloved oldies station. (You'd think the guy could afford a satellite radio.) Steven Van Zandt of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band said it was like replacing the Statue of Liberty with a blow-up doll, which he meant as a negative...
...SENTENCED. MUHAMMAD BOUYERI, 27, Islamic radical who confessed to the November 2004 murder of controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh; to life in prison without the possibility of parole; in Amsterdam. Bouyeri, a Dutch citizen of Moroccan descent, said he killed van Gogh, a fervent critic of Islam, for insulting the religion and the Prophet Muhammad. Bouyeri remained unrepentant at his sentencing, telling van Gogh's mother, "I don't feel your pain...