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...black and white images are of wartime in the 1940s. Nestor Burma, private detective, sticks his head out of the train window as it pulls out of the busy urban station. In the crowd of soldiers and milling civilians he spies his chunky colleague, Bob, who chases after the train, waving for Burma to get off. Suddenly, Bob clutches his chest. He shouts an address, "120, rue de la Gare," and falls, the back of his coat soaked in blood from multiple gunshots. As Burma tumbles out of the train, a beautiful girl in a trench coat stands...
...Burma's investigations take him from a POW camp to Lyons to Paris. Along the way he discovers Bob's recent interest in the long-closed case of a jewel thief who left a strange posthumous riddle. Meanwhile the girl at the station has vanished and the address Bob shouted doesn't exist. Things heat up when Burma gets ambushed on a bridge but the attacker winds up a corpse in the river. The cast quickly expands to include several cops, a reporter, another P.I., the P.I.'s secretary, her lover, Burma's secretary, a shifty doctor and a well...
...Loews Theater on 72nd Street and 2nd Avenue in Manhattan on a rainy November afternoon. About halfway through Love Actually, Hugh Grant, playing the irrepressibly charming if undeniably naïve British Prime Minister, welcomes the American president to 10 Downing Street. The president, played by Billy Bob Thornton with a mixture of Bushie intransigence and Clintonian lecherousness, first refuses to give an inch in political negotiations and then makes a (somewhat successful) move on the attractive personal assistant on whom Grant has set his heart...
...good unless it was signed by ‘important’ people such as the university president,” Cremarosa said. “So my revised plan is to get the signatures of these important people, like [Harvard President] Larry Summers and our athletic director, Bob Scalise...
...Dodgers would seem to be the best fit. Los Angeles has a large Japanese population (about 37,000) and an even larger hole at short. On top of that, two Dodgers pitchers are Japanese (Hideo Nomo and Kaz Ishii), and the team's managing partner (Bob Daly) was once the boss of Tellem's wife, Nancy, who is currently the president of CBS Entertainment. The only factor working against L.A. is money: the franchise is up for sale, and the transition to new ownership might clog the team's cash flow...