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In Abilene, at a major grocery chain and at the airport gift shop, you can buy more than one book debunking The Da Vinci Code, but you can't buy The Da Vinci Code. This, I think, might have some correlation to the great success of Angels and Demons.
The nice thing about Angels and Demons is that it has a virtual 1:1 correspondence to the characters and the plot arc of The Da Vinci Code, the movie (I can't say anything about the book version, as it was not available at the airport gift shop). This is nice, since while I fill in all the blanks with Tom Hanks, Ian McKellan, Jean Reno, et. al. (actually it was Sophie Marceau or Monica Bellucci rather than Audrey Tautou, and I had to fill in a skinny British guy whose name I can't remember for Alfred Molina*), my imagination has extra time to consider what Dan Brown is doing with all our money.
I predict a cable TV movie with Harry Hamlin or Peter Gallagher. Or Lorenzo Llamas.
*On imaginitive vacation after appearing, in his younger self, as David Carr (opposite younger Tilda Swinton) in Nick Hornby's How to Be Good.
The nice thing about Angels and Demons is that it has a virtual 1:1 correspondence to the characters and the plot arc of The Da Vinci Code, the movie (I can't say anything about the book version, as it was not available at the airport gift shop). This is nice, since while I fill in all the blanks with Tom Hanks, Ian McKellan, Jean Reno, et. al. (actually it was Sophie Marceau or Monica Bellucci rather than Audrey Tautou, and I had to fill in a skinny British guy whose name I can't remember for Alfred Molina*), my imagination has extra time to consider what Dan Brown is doing with all our money.
I predict a cable TV movie with Harry Hamlin or Peter Gallagher. Or Lorenzo Llamas.
*On imaginitive vacation after appearing, in his younger self, as David Carr (opposite younger Tilda Swinton) in Nick Hornby's How to Be Good.