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This may be fertile ground, and taps a background of accusations (against the incumbent mayor's father, against the circuit clerk) and intrigue (about a mysterious murder, and about the mayor himself being barred for life from federal projects after allegedly defaulting on an $8 million HUD loan).
In 1846, during the course of an unsavory palace intrigue involving an unsolved murder, meddling by the queen, and the massacre of some 100 high-ranking court figures who had been lured to a palace courtyard, the instigator of these events became the power behind the throne.
“Chéri, can't we go to the premiere of that finde-siècle tableau vivant about clandestine intrigue in a commune?”
Here's the thing: Generally speaking, I like my mob movies straight-up male: I still don't understand what Diane Keaton is doing in The Godfather (not to mention Sofia Coppola in III ). I love Tony's crew, and I love mob intrigue.
Royal wedding intrigue dominates, with the Globe raising the possibility that Prince Edward may be gay--perhaps forgetting that only a week earlier, it had him confessing that he was actually in love with his late sister-in-law, Princess Diana.