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Who Stole A.O. Scott's Laptop?
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Jen Chung
Published May 27, 2004
Modified Mar 6, 2008
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Roger Ebert captured this photograph of New York Times chief film critic A.O. Scott in his Cannes Photo Album. The caption reads:
New York Times film critic A.O. Scott awoke to find a thief had filched his money, passport and computer. "The hotel loaned me a laptop," he said, "but it has a French keyboard, with the keys in different places."
Poor, poor, Tony. The Encyclopedia Brown/Lennie Briscoe in us suspects not some Riviera thief looking for jewels but actually all movie producers, writers, actors, publicists, or anyone else who might be affected by a poisonous review (stealing the passport thing - they wanted to strand you in France, not to mention make it look like the usual robbery).
Scott's review of The Day After Tomorrow begins with "The Day After Tomorrow, a two-hour $125 million disaster excuse me, I mean disaster movie that opens nationwide on Friday..."
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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