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...fake-ID seller who helped an identity thief run up $30,000 in false charges to Charles Glueck, a Metarie, La., dentist. After Glueck lost his wallet, the man who took it went online to get a driver's license with his picture and Glueck's identity. He then used that license to get 15 credit cards in Glueck's name and started charging. Glueck was shocked to learn later from police that the website had not broken the law because when it shipped the driver's license to the thief, the license was marked for "novelty" use only. "Once...
...their timing is improving. Yorkin has directed, and Lear has partly written, a new movie due out early next year. It stars Ryan O'Neal as a burglar whose passion, as luck would have it, is chess. The original title was "The Thief Who Came to Dinner." Now, their eyes aglow at the thought of the mania sweeping the country after the Fischer-Spassky match in Iceland, Yorkin and Lear are eagerly dreaming up a good chess title...
...business. However, since the film is categorized as a romantic comedy, it may be assumed that their relationship does not remain solely antagonistic. Dan Aykroyd stars as Briggs' boss, who, following the theft of one fine jewel, is opposed to paying the insurance money. Briggs must think like a thief to continue his tradition of cracking the case. Charlize Theron, Elizabeth Berkeley, and Wallace Shawn play supporting roles. One may anticipate traditional Woody Allen wry, thinking man's humor...
...Hollywood-style. (Fast-action "happiness montage" included.) They were destined to be together, you see, and besides we had a subplot to plumb: Jerri making her move (and her moves) on the king of the tribe that maybe needed a reason to keep her around. Very "To Catch a Thief," with maybe just a touch of "Pretty Woman." (Though the repartee was more like "Home Improvement." Sample conversation, on the way over: Jerri, her teeth on full blast: "Wow, we are in the middle of nowhere." Colby: "I really got to get me one a these choppers...
...wonder the "heroes" of these films are often silent, sullen resisters. The title character of Jia's quietly powerful Xiao Wu is a thief with scruples: he won't give in to the system. He is spurned by an old gangster friend, harassed by the police, cursed by his father ("I should have drowned you in the urinal when you were born"). Finally, arrested for pickpocketing, he is hand-cuffed in a public square and left to be stared at. He is a zoo creature, behind the bars of the people's opprobrium. Jia would work on a larger canvas...