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Western intelligence circles had some other suspicions about whodunit. One theory involved a possible Egyptian vendetta for the recent Palestinian guerrilla seizure of the Egyptian embassy in Ankara, which Mohsen is said to have directed. Another was that he was the victim of a plot within the P.L.O., where Mohsen had numerous enemies because of his Syrian connection...
...thieves, airline cargo handlers and plainclothes cops mingled, drank and bet on horses. The bar changed hands two years ago, but its current customers buzzed with gossip about the huge theft. Both federal and local investigators promptly began tailing the most likely suspects. Their problem was not so much whodunit, but how to prove...
...actor as an appetizer rather than the main course. About half an hour after the picture begins, Morley surrenders center stage to his romantic costars, Jacqueline Bisset and George Segal; Chefs suddenly ceases to be a jolly satire on the cooking craze and becomes an exception ally talky whodunit. The movie soon dies as ignominiously as its title characters - drowning in a stew of ketchup-colored blood and rancid red herrings...
...script doesn't develop its basic materials. The aesthetic and ethical issues raised by Laura's photographs are never worked into the story; the heroine's psychic powers have no bearing on the solution of the murder case. Laura Mars quickly devolves into a prosaic whodunit with a gyp of an ending. What could have been a classy thriller like Klute or Don't Look Now seems instead an endless episode of Charlie's Angels...
From the start, the case had the ingredients of a Hollywood whodunit. But when the defense, claiming a frame-up, demanded to see the reporter's notes, the Doctor X trial was transformed into a clash of constitutional principles as well. Citing the First Amendment and a New Jersey "shield law" giving a reporter the privilege of refusing to disclose confidential sources, Farber and the Times refused to turn over anything. The result: a head-on collision between the First and Sixth Amendments, between the constitutional claims of free press and fair trial...