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There's the former rock-'n'-roll star and art collector turned con who tells the truth about many things, including the fact that he is an art thief and a con. He says he knows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GREAT ART CAPER | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

...like Coral's in the Mexican Deep Crimson. Coral (Regina Orozco), a nurse, is fat, lazy, a bust at everything but loving Nico (Daniel Gimenez Cacho). Movie-mad Coral wants a man like Charles Boyer. Well, Nico does wear a toupee. And like Boyer in Gaslight, he is a thief of women's affections and inheritances. Coral, at first a mark, proves his accomplice and inspiration. Dumping her two kids in an orphanage and posing as Nico's sister, she prods him to romance, rob and kill his ladies; then the swindlers make sweaty lust in the shed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: THE THREE FACES OF EVIL | 10/20/1997 | See Source »

...thief or theives had taken his Discman and several CDs from Dowker's fourth-floor office. He said he did not have any other valuables in the office at the time...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Math Dept. Offices Vandalized | 10/15/1997 | See Source »

...offices are all located along different corridors with ceiling paneling. On Friday morning, Dowker said he found one of the panels leaning against the wall. He said that a thief could have crawled through the hole created by the absence of the panel and entered the office by knocking out the paneling in its ceiling...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Math Dept. Offices Vandalized | 10/15/1997 | See Source »

...flashlight Rembrandt's signature on Storm on the Sea of Galilee. The assignation was brokered by Youngworth, who then told ABC's Nightline he could deliver the stolen works in exchange for the museum's $5 million reward and the release of his pal Myles J. Connor Jr., a thief who was in prison for selling cocaine and transporting stolen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEIST AND THE HUNT | 10/13/1997 | See Source »

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