Word: ransomed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...growing up in the city's Jewish neighborhood in the 1950s. But then an ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY review of his 1998 movie, Sphere, referred to Dustin Hoffman as a "noodgey and menschlike" Jewish psychologist. The racial stereotyping annoyed Levinson ("Nobody would say Mel Gibson was playing a Catholic industrialist in Ransom"), but it also got him thinking about his youth again. Rather than fume, he sat down and wrote for three straight weeks, imagining characters from his past talking about race, religion and class. "It wasn't writing," he says. "It was dictation...
...MICHAEL JACKSON and his two children taken last Christmas and New Year's and has been attempting to sell them to news outlets. Footage taken of the family at a Euro Disney hotel last July was also pilfered. The tapes, for which the thief is demanding a $100,000 ransom, were stolen recently from a hotel room in France. Jackson's lawyers have threatened "immediate action" against any publication tempted to publish the photos, and declared Jackson's intention to prosecute rather than pay ransom to the tapes' abductor...
...another theory using key pieces of evidence. He believes the killer may have spotted JonBenet as she glided by in a convertible in Boulder's holiday Parade of Lights. On Christmas night, while the family was out, he entered through a basement window, roamed the house and penned a ransom note, using a legal pad and black Sharpie marker he found near the kitchen...
...famous person last week who told me the best way to make money writing is ransom notes...
ELVIS PRESLEY Auction of his stuff sells for King's ransom. Best items: Army fatigues and Burning Love cape...