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'Blind Shaft'
Times Staff WriterIn the taut, palpably unnerving thriller "Blind Shaft," a couple of grifters murder for profit and a few surplus kicks. As the pair hustle across country picking off victims as casually as other men brush off lint, they come across as the very...Tags: Sex, Movies, Mining, China, Crimes
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Hollinger 'milked' of cash, suit says
Tribune staff reporterBarbara Amiel-Black, wife of press baron Conrad Black, liked to tip the doorman at posh New York clothing retailer Bergdorf Goodman--and then expense it to her husband's company, Sun-Times owner Hollinger International Inc. Chicago-based Hollinger also...Tags: Hollinger Incorporated, Crime, Law and Justice, New York, Companies and Corporations, Mass Media
Mar 19, 2004
|Story| Los Angeles Times
![In the taut, palpably unnerving thriller "Blind Shaft," a couple of grifters murder for profit and a few surplus kicks. As the pair hustle across country picking off victims as casually as other men brush off lint, they come across as the very definition of "yeggs" — down-and-dirty criminals of the sort that once filled the pages of old-school pulp fiction. (They're scarily hard-boiled yeggs at that.) With cigarettes clenched in their teeth and eyes emptied of soul, these grifters could have stepped out of a Jim Thompson novel, but as it happens they're straight out of modern China.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2004-03/11877298 "In the taut, palpably unnerving thriller "Blind Shaft,\" a couple of grifters murder for profit and a few surplus kicks. As the pair hustle across country picking off victims as casually as other men brush off lint, they come across as the very definition of \"yeggs\" — down-and-dirty criminals of the sort that once filled the pages of old-school pulp fiction. (They're scarily hard-boiled yeggs at that.) With cigarettes clenched in their teeth and eyes emptied of soul, these grifters could have stepped out of a Jim Thompson novel, but as it happens they're straight out of modern China."){kind=small}
May 11, 2004
|Story| Chicago Tribune
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