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...The $45 supersized receptacle has set off fights, a heist, schoolyard bullying and a buying frenzy more typically associated with exclusive sneaker drops....
...Solving a cryptic is a sophisticated bank heist.” The US was a pioneer of the crossword, along with Britain....
...To begin our screwball journey, the movie carried us into town on the Autoroute de l’Ouest in a white stretch limousine....
...“This would suggest a loose affiliation rather than a strict hierarchy with clear division of labour,” says Xavier L’Hoiry, a lecturer in criminology at Sheffield University....
...He has a daughter — attractive as it happens — who was involved in a diamond heist and takes a shine to Reynolds, which makes life complicated....
...Out goes the romantic Manicheism of traditional heist cinema: the loveably kooky crooks versus the cut-outs from the cop shop....
...Almost all of the heists so far have taken place in hotels and private events rather than in the many high-end boutiques in Cannes and the surrounding area....
...But “culture”, in the more focused usage that is the remit of this column, has reared its head in one of the most entertaining money rows of recent months: l’affaire Depardieu....
...A homage to The Wizard of Oz, Disney’s Oz the Great and Powerful tells how the endearing charlatan who ruled Emerald City in the 1939 film from Frank L....
...He brought an untamed quality to the heist film, the buddy movie and the gangster thriller....
...The rumbustiously diabolical character played by Philip Seymour Hoffman is almost manifestly a spoof on L. Ron Hubbard, the cult’s founding father....
...The Parisian police suspected the heist must be the work of a sophisticated ring of art thieves. In late August, they thought they had found them....
...“But at the end of the day you look at your P&L and you have to see the profit line above zero....
...Elsewhere on Friday: - Dubbed the world’s biggest heist by Felix Salmon at Portfolio and the year’s biggest story according to Financial Armageddon, the SEC charges Bernard L....
...The second is a trite heist movie about jobless middle-agers learning that crime does not pay (The Full Monty with armed robbery)....
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