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The two films cited most often are Heathers , in which Christian Slater is foiled in an attempt to detonate his school, and The Basketball Diaries , in which Leonardo DiCaprio fantasizes about gunning down his classmates and a priest Terminator -style while his buddies cheer.
A separate Times item reports that yesterday morning Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala foiled an attempt to rob her at a bank ATM and gave the police a getaway car license plate that directly led to the arrest of three suspects in the crime.
It starts with a disorienting series of shock cuts, during which George Clooney tears off his tie, marches through traffic into a bank and, without a weapon or a plan, pulls off a charmingly effortless robbery foiled only by a bad starter on his wreck of a car.
Egypt foiled a 1954 plot to discredit Egyptian ultranationalists by planting bombs in Cairo buildings.
Many well-known figures contemplating their posthumous selves have been foiled in exercising control over their literary remains.