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Judith Buczek, CAMANO ISLAND, WASH...
...Banning in Papua New Guinea: The 550,000 residents of Papua New Guinea's Southern Highlands province better drink up quickly. In an attempt to quell the tribal strife that has long plagued the fractious region, alcohol will be banned there after May 11. In recent years, the island nation has seen escalating levels of domestic and sexual violence. Local police point to excessive intoxication as a culprit, though squabbles over a natural-gas-pipeline project have also contributed to the turbulence...
...inmates of Ashecliffe hospital look at the new visitor with stares that might be pleading or warning. U.S. Marshal Edward "Teddy" Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) has come with his partner Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo) to isolated Shutter Island in Boston Harbor to track down an escaped patient from the insane asylum. But that is only one of the enigmas Teddy must unravel. The doctors who run the institution, Cawley (Ben Kingsley) and Naehring (Max von Sydow), often respond to Teddy's questions with strange smiles whose meaning eludes both him and the audience. Teddy too has dark secrets: searing memories...
...Shutter Island, the 2003 novel by Dennis Lehane (Mystic River; Gone, Baby, Gone), ransacked nearly 2,500 years of murder-mystery tradition - from Oedipus Rex to Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - and was deeply indebted to such early David Fincher films as The Game and Fight Club. The plot, set in the 1950s, is a festival of conspiracies involving Nazis, Soviets, lobotomizers, the CIA and LSD, plus some very crafty lunatics and an oddly convenient hurricane. Packed with word and number puzzles, like a Da Vinci Code with fewer chase scenes, Lehane's story was devised...
...Shutter Island, $22.2 million; $75.1 million, second week 2. Cop Out, $18.6 million, first weekend 3. The Crazies, $16.5 million, first weekend 4. Avatar, $14 million; $706.9 million, 11th week 5. Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief, $9.8 million; $71.2 million, third week 6. Valentine's Day, $9.5 million; $100.4 million, third week 7. Dear John, $5 million; $72.6 million, fourth week 8. The Wolfman, $4.1 million; $57.2 million, third week 9. Tooth Fairy, $3.5 million; $53.9 million, sixth week 10. Crazy Heart, $2.5 million; $25.1 million, 11th week...