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Don’t go anywhere with Tom Hanks!

Hanks was hounded by a cabal which counted as a member a self-flagellating albino in The Da Vinci Code. East German punks stole his coat in Bridge of Spies, and Somali pirates his ship in Captain Phillips. He even played Chesley ‘Sully‘ Sullenberger, the most-skilled pilot who landed an airplane full of passengers on the East River. Speaking of passengers, his character was stranded for months at JFK airport in The Terminal.

But Tom Hanks’s most famous movie involving disastrous travel is Cast Away (2000), where he plays Chuck Noland, a FedEx executive who spends years talking to a volleyball named Wilson while stranded on an island somewhere in the Pacific.

Read my article, Don’t go anywhere with Tom Hanks!

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Mexico: Snakes on a plane

Three Spaniards on Mexico flight arrested with 260 reptiles in luggage. Dutch police that say many protected species were found among the haul

Dutch police have arrested three Spaniards on charges of illegally transporting animals after more than 260 reptiles – including lizards, chameleons, snakes and tortoises, many of them protected species – were found in their luggage after they arrived from Mexico at Amsterdam Airport.

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Sunday palate cleanser: The Mikado

D’Oyly Carte Opera Company’s 1992 production celebrating the 150th anniversary of Sir Arthur Sullivan’s birthday

Libretto. The Mikado at the Gilbert and Sullivan Archive.

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Swing by The Pink Flamingo for some Dmitri love.

[WARNING: If you click on the link you’ll be exposed to both politics and bad music] Richard Fernandez has some political thoughts on Florence Foster Jenkins.

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Argentina: Los Abandonados, the movie I want to see but can’t find. UPDATE: FOUND!

UPDATE:

Website: Los Abandonados Movie

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Frances Martel writes about a new documentary, Los Abandonados (The Abandoned),

As Americans reflect on months at the negotiating table with Ali Khamenei, the new filmLos Abandonados (“The Abandoned”) demands a deeper look at another Iran deal: the one Argentina made to absolve the perpetrators of the largest terrorist attack in their history.

Part historical account and part spy novel, Los Abandonados tells the story of the death of Alberto Nisman, an Argentine prosecutor who was found dead of a gunshot to the head the day before he was to testify to Congress. He was to accuse President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of making a secret deal with the Iranian government to protect Hezbollah-linked terrorists. The terrorists in question are the orchestrators of the 1994 bombing of the Argentine-Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA), the worst terror attack in Argentina’s history and the worst attack on the Western Hemisphere prior to the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Readers of this blog know that I’ve been following the Nisman story, so I’m keenly interested in seeing the film.

However, it has no IMDB listing, movie times, or official website that I could find. It does have a YouTube channel.

Any information on where it’s playing will be greatly appreciated.

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