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After tying up a gallery security guard, thieves in Frankfurt, Germany, managed to make off with three works by Romantic painters J.M.W. Turner and Caspar David Friedrich valued at $42 million. Meanwhile, across the ocean at a warehouse on Boston's waterfront, a 1786 portrait of Thomas Jefferson worth at least $1 million was lifted from a metal and concrete safe...
...special effects, which are excellent at times. The "bouncing Betty" mine shots and the Boston Police truck getting blown up outside the Boston Public Library are two great sequences. And the final explosion is one of the largest this reviewer has ever seen. It actually smashed windows on the waterfront last year during filming...
Graham Haddock, 77, then the Higgins plant superintendent, can still feel the tension of that June morning, even though the waterfront where he used to watch the landing craft take shape is home port to gambling boats and yachts today. "The news of the invasion came about the time we went to work," he recalls. "We wondered whether it was going to work or not. There was no feeling of victory at first. Not until the 10 o'clock radio news did we get confirmation that we had a toehold in Normandy. I got up and marked...
...which owns the Columbia Pictures library, has opened high-tech prototype stores in its Manhattan headquarters that emphasize the parent company's electronic equipment but also feature bibelots from current sitcoms (Seinfeld coffee mugs, Ed Bundy WHY ME? T shirts) and old movies (Three Stooges dolls, an On the Waterfront I COULDA BEEN A CONTENDER sweatshirt). This month, in the same building, the company will unveil Sony Wonder, a free exhibition space with the first permanent interactive movie theater and other beguilements. A London Sony store is in the offing. Bob Wallen, Sony Signatures' senior vice president for licensing...
...President arrived at the dock by boat, "Cantaloop" played over the loudspeaker. The crowd filled the waterfront, adjacent buildings and docked boats, waving American flags and cheering for the President...