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Article: DUTCH TREAT; ELMORE LEONARD'S EASY STYLE, MISFIT CHARACTERS COMING ACROSS.(L.A. LIFE)

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June 26, 1998
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Byline: Glenn Whipp Daily News Film Writer

After federal marshal Karen Sisco stumbles onto a South Florida prison break in an early scene from the new underworld comedy ``Out of Sight,'' she soon finds herself locked in the trunk of the getaway car with one of the escaped convicts, a debonair bank robber named Jack Foley.

It's close quarters for Jack and Karen, and since they're played by George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez, you know some sparks are going to fly. And they do - sort of - but mostly the two talk about the movies, old films like ``Three Days of the Condor.''

``Yeah,'' Karen says, ``the one with Faye Dunaway and Robert Redford, when ...

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