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...sailors took up a painstaking ten-county search, many Mississippians preferred to believe that their disappearance was all a hoax. "They could be in Cuba," said Governor Paul Johnson airily. "They're just hiding and trying to cause a lot of bad publicity," pshawed Neshoba Sheriff L. A. Rainey...
They quickly realize this is a "dry hole": the house is empty. The raid has awakened the neighbors, though, which allows Bravo Company leader Captain Michael Rainey to ask some questions. The house had indeed been occupied by foreigners, says an old man, but they left a few weeks ago. They had claimed to be students, but Rainey uncovers hand-drawn maps of the area that hint at a more sinister purpose...
...proof of his willingness to be thought insane, Depp's first post-Pirates movie is Secret Window, in theaters this Friday. He plays Mort Rainey, a successful writer being stalked by a psychotic dairy farmer. Before the movie ends, for reasons too crucial to the plot to fully explain, Mort manically consumes the equivalent of Iowa's annual corn harvest. But that's not the crazy part. "Much of the first half of the movie is just Mort in a cabin by himself not doing things," says Secret Window's writer-director, David Koepp, a man you would expect...
...Clair de Lune, a revival of Terrence McNally's sentimental two-hander starring Stanley Tucci and Edie Falco, seems to have been to break up Tucci's marriage. (The show is closed, but he and Falco, who played a nude scene together, are now tabloid fodder.) Ma Rainey's Black Bottom was the first play, and still one of the best, in August Wilson's projected 10-play cycle on the African-American experience in the 20th century. But couldn't we at least have waited until he finished the project (No. 9 opens in Chicago this week) before starting...
DIED. LAWRENCE RAINEY SR., 79, former Mississippi sheriff acquitted in 1967 of conspiracy in the 1964 murders of civil rights workers James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner; of cancer; in Meridian, Miss. The case, in which seven Ku Klux Klansmen were convicted, inspired the film Mississippi Burning...