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...payoffs made to the police by a porn kingpin. The movie plays the robbery as a kind of sting, arranged by MI 5, a branch of the British secret service. Their idea was to make the crime look like a standard heist, allow the robbers to keep the loot if they could escape the investigating cops, but grab the embarrassing evidence of royal playfulness. To this end, they engage the astonishingly beautiful Martine (Saffron Burrows) to recruit the crime team - a bunch of small time crooks (led by the excellent Jason Statham, who is on his way to broody stardom...
...clandestine work that France was able to recover more than 100,000 works of art - 60,000 immediately after the war, and 40,000 over the next decades - and return them to their rightful owners. But some art slipped past Valland's gimlet eye; the Nazis amassed so much loot that they had to set up other clearing houses to process the flood of paintings and objects, many of which belonged to Jewish families killed in the Holocaust. Some of the art changed hands many times; Nazis collected and traded "degenerate" art - Picasso and the Impressionists - for earlier works they...
Compared with the crowded, colorful displays of loot in most Broadway theater lobbies, the merchandise counter for Rent looks downright spare: a modest assortment of sweatshirts, mugs, CDs and T shirts in basic-grunge black-and-white. The show, too--on my first return visit since reviewing it 12 years ago--looks a bit paler than it did back in 1996, when it opened off-Broadway to so much acclaim that it made the jump to Broadway just two months later. The aids-centric story lines in this East Village update of La Bohème seem a little dated...
...unclear what the robbers will do with their loot. "Obviously, these paintings are too high-profile to sell to art dealers," Vuillaume notes. "We are thinking that maybe in a week or two there will be a ransom demand. But we just have to wait...
...live like everyone else, then when the inevitable class revolution comes, we can simply dress up like them, too, and the proletariat will have to be content with smashing Yale and Princeton instead. Play Money, or, How I Quit My Day Job and Struck It Rich in Virtual Loot Farming by Julian Dibbell While hardcore gamers might view gaming as a “night job†akin to prostitution, slam poetry, or overseas military contracting, the rest of us know that the only tangible benefit of playing games all the time is the learned ability to push buttons...