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...latest in a growing trend of age-skewed Hollywood hook-ups, Entrapment follows an intricate game of cat and mouse played out by Robert MacDougal (Sean Connery), a master thief, and Virginia Baker (Catherine Zeta-Jones), an insurance investigator who's looking to beat MacDougal at his own game. It's in the mold of a twisty-turny, psychological spy thriller, complete with deceit, intrigue, romance, and double-crossing...
...came to America basically as white slaves," he says, with a laugh. Lately, Harold Brooks-Baker--head of Burke's Peerage, the British company that does genealogical searches--sees a change. People are less obsessed with nobility and more with the dramatic. "If their ancestor was a horse thief, all the better," he says. Care to chat about family skeletons? The International Black Sheep Society of Genealogists has set up a website and an electronic mailing list for "those who have a dastardly, infamous individual of public knowledge and ill repute in their family...
According to the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD), after the staff member's wallet was stolen from inside the library, the staff member confronted the thief...
...trash-TV shows and their supermarket sisters. Now, as if that were not enough to sate prurient tastes, two books revisit the events. Orth, a writer for Vanity Fair, unloads her notebooks indiscriminately, providing an overdetailed, pedestrian chronicle. Cunanan, a gregarious, wickedly clever mythomaniac and petty thief, disported himself in the kinky gay netherworld of alcohol, drugs, prostitution and sadomasochism. In a jealous rage he murdered two former lovers and an elderly man who may have been a sometime lover, then a stranger whose pickup truck he stole, and finally Versace, a homosexual whose connection to Cunanan...
...typical scenario," a CPD report states, " a female diner leaves her purse under, next to, or slung over the back of her seat. While she is eating, a thief sneaks up from behind and takes the purse, or takes the wallet from the purse. This crime also befalls men who hang their coats--with wallets or cellular telephones in the coat pockets--over the backs of their chairs...