Article: A smart art heist? Only in movies Booty can seldom be resold, and thieves are usually caught

Randy Kennedy The New York Times Media Group
International Herald Tribune
02-18-2008
A smart art heist? Only in movies Booty can seldom be resold, and thieves are usually caught
Byline: Randy Kennedy The New York Times Media Group
Edition: 4
Section: NEWS

The plots of art heist movies are about as multifarious as the canvases of the paintings pilfered by their main characters - the postmodern heroin-cool of Nick Nolte in "The Good Thief"; the playboy-billionaire boredom of Pierce Brosnan in "The Thomas Crown Affair." But one thing art theft movies tend to have in common is that they dwell on the heist and not on the aftermath, for reasons that are probably more than cinematic: Art is an ...

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