Madeleine McCann: Adopted by Angelina Jolie, And The Changeling
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
DAILY MAIL: “A mother leaves her child while she goes out - and returns to an empty house. No, not the McCann case but the true story behind a gripping new film”
Fact. Fiction. Can you spot the difference?
She was a devoted mother, hard-working, determined and tough. Then, one spring morning, Christine Collins kissed her little child goodbye (leaving him under the eye of neighbours), before returning in the evening to an empty house. Her beloved son had vanished without a trace.
A continent-wide hunt was launched and a shocked nation was kept agog by a string of leads - only for their hopes to be cruelly dashed as each clue led to a dead end.
The child was never seen again, the mother was heartbroken and the community was left divided by suspicion and mistrust.
Terrible. Just terrible. Does it work out in the end?
It could be the tragic story of Kate and Gerry McCann and their three-year-old daughter, Madeleine, who was abducted last year while on holiday in Portugal, and who remains missing to this day.
It could be, albeit with better lighting, a decent cast and a 15 certificate… Gone, Baby, Gone…
But, in fact, it is the plot of Clint Eastwood’s latest film, Changeling, which opens in Britain later this month.
But it’s all false, right? Angelina Jolie is only acting, right? Unless she adopted Madeleine?
It is all the more powerful because it is based on a horrific true story. The so-called ‘Wineville chicken coop murders’ took place on the outskirts of Los Angeles in 1928.
And while they happened 80 years before Maddie McCann disappeared, there are startling parallels between the two.
The McCanns’ grim experience in Praia de Luz - and how they were made suspects by bungling local police - was widely reported.
But Christine Collins suffered even worse treatment at the hands of the LA Police Department. As the investigation into her missing child failed to yield results, she was even locked up in a mental asylum.
It’s enough to drive you maaaaad. Maaaaad, I tell yer…
As in the McCann case, rumour followed rumour.
Each one recorded for posterity…
Posted: 8th, November 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann, Media Comments (853) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
Comments
November 9th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Course I am familiar with the thingy called erection, I wears a kilt don’t I.
November 9th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
You barmy French bint, he means you lot the pink panther barmy army……..you not well coconutter……nothing to trivial I trust.
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Chatelaine - He means mad lady, woman or girl. Of course we are the sane ones on here!
GONAD! I only ever get serious things wrong with me. When I do - I shall project it directly through the ether - straight towards your sagging bollocks. In fact - I hope you itch and scratch and strain to pee - tonight!
November 9th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
Well I neverI will go to the top of our stairs………^Doing a Hackup. On-line in five 5 minutes…^ guess who………….
November 9th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
Carry on Chatters. The coconuts not around at the mo……
November 9th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
Chatelaine - tee hee
November 9th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
Gandolf, I looked up “barmy” and “bint” as it is not the vocabulary normally used in my circles.
B.t.w. are you familiar with the psychological phenomenon called “projection”?
November 9th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
Montaillou Says:
November 9th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Gaffer they appear to have gone and left you all alone again. Are you lonely? Hope they haven’t left you in charge of any younger siblings. Better check the shutters and patio doors.
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Whats that got to do with anything you silly sausage?
November 9th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
Châtelaine Says:
November 9th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
And is that the PJ, you mean, or also the LP?
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You barmy French bint, he means you lot the pink panther barmy army……..you not well coconutter……nothing to trivial I trust.
November 9th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Gaffer they appear to have gone and left you all alone again. Are you lonely? Hope they haven’t left you in charge of any younger siblings. Better check the shutters and patio doors.
November 9th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
Darlings! I bid you all good night and hope that no more nutters appear. See you all late tomorrow.
Garsehole - I hope that your specific raison d’etre comes back and bites you on the arse so very badly - that you end up never being able to sit down again.
November 9th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Garth Says:
November 9th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
[...] The farce as you bleedin call it is the investigation carried out by a bunch of amateurs.
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Aha!
And that’s not libel?
And is that the PJ, you mean, or also the LP?
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I know you’re not in the habit of answering questions, but you might make a exception just for once????
November 9th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Châtelaine Says:
November 9th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
Garth Says:
November 9th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
[...] Hmm, your poor hubby. I’d keep an eye on that bottle if i were him. Anyway, if it helps!
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Garth you are utterly distasteful, but I guess you would call it “witty”
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You have very selective hearing madam.
November 9th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
coco Says:
November 9th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
Mme Chatelaine! Garsehole is not somebody to take seriously. He is a Simpleton of the highest degree.
Garsehole appears to think that the Clannies were looking after M’s interests!
Not when she disappeared - they weren’t. In fact - it appears that she was the least of their interests. And given the fact that the other Clannies never even checked to see if their kids were missing - it rather proves the point - that none of them had anybody’s interests at heart - except for themselves.
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Good point!
Less heart more head eh? Hows the bottle incidentally?
Im sure you can multi-task.
November 9th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Chatelaine! Garsehole wants me to enter into some banter with him - but as you know - I usually just wipe the floor with him and then he runs off like a silly little girl.
November 9th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
Coco, I don’t think Garth is simpleton; he’s here for a specific reason.
Bon courage for tomorrow.
November 9th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Thanks ever so much Montaillou. A bunch of splendid lovely people and a bunch of fucking Horrors all mixed together tomorrow - so it will probably like being here on Anorak
November 9th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
Garth Says:
November 9th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
[...] Hmm, your poor hubby. I’d keep an eye on that bottle if i were him. Anyway, if it helps!
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Garth you are utterly distasteful, but I guess you would call it “witty”
November 9th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
Yep! Special Resrve Port tomorrow. In the hip-flasks.
November 9th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
Coco, sorry, you said your friend died, funerals are horrible, I’ll think of you tomorrow xxx
November 9th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
Mme Chatelaine! Garsehole is not somebody to take seriously. He is a Simpleton of the highest degree.
Garsehole appears to think that the Clannies were looking after M’s interests!
Not when she disappeared - they weren’t. In fact - it appears that she was the least of their interests. And given the fact that the other Clannies never even checked to see if their kids were missing - it rather proves the point - that none of them had anybody’s interests at heart - except for themselves.
So fuck off Garsehole with your nonsensical sub-texts. You Fuck-Wit!
November 9th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
coco Says:
November 9th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
I am so crap at the moment - that I have had to ask my Hubby to drive me to the funeral - in case my bottle goes.
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Hmm, your poor hubby. I’d keep an eye on that bottle if i were him. Anyway, if it helps!
November 9th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
Montaillou!
I was doing a mourning day today before a funeral tomorrow.
I have to get all my tears out today - in case I smudge my mascara tomorrow in front of my public.
I wish I looked as good as K-Woman and G-Man do in a crisis!
They always look great - even though they know in their own minds that there daughter could be being seriously abused every minute of the day.
They have fabulous courage - and everything is always a breeze as they greet their public and jump on and off planes and trains.
I am so crap at the moment - that I have had to ask my Hubby to drive me to the funeral - in case my bottle goes.
People definitely act different in horrid situations.
I wish I had the strength to call the Clannies and ask them how they do it!
November 9th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
And is that the PJ, you mean, or also the LP?
November 9th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
And that’s not libel?
November 9th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
Garth Says:
November 9th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
[...] The farce as you bleedin call it is the investigation carried out by a bunch of amateurs.
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Aha!
November 9th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
coco Says:
November 9th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
The Stinky Stigmatism that is Stigged says: ”A reconstruction could not possibly lead to her being found - you don’t honestly believe that it could, do you?”
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I make no apology to any poster on here for what I am about to say about this Knob-Head.
The whole point of this particular reconstruction is to make sense of the ridiculous time-lines that the Tapastwats gave to the investigators.
In the event that it would not and could not make sense - this would have given the investigating team much more credibility in the eyes of the public and the law!
So YES - Of course this would have been useful. It may even have brought us closer to discovering the body of MM instead of continuing with this farce.
Fuck-Wit!
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Blimey, the old hag is even signing herself off as fuckwit.
Listen dopey draws, the bleedin McCanns were looking after Madeleines and their interests. Not the bleedin PJ’s credability. The farce as you bleedin call it is the investigation carried out by a bunch of amateurs.
November 9th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
Hi Coco, wondered where you were all day, they’ve been doing double shift here, perhaps because the other side was inaccessible much of the day.
November 9th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
GONAD Says:
November 9th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
Just a quicky agw, please let us know if mods are going to act as mods or dictators, it appears bold is the new taboo, this isn’t the new 3arses is it, perish the thought.
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I think the Mods should be dictators with posters like you!
To save you from your sad self!
Knob-End!
November 9th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
Poor Amaral! All those years of service to be spooked by the Spooks of Government and diplomacy!
I don’t think he could have done a single thing more than he did with the Spooks diving in and out.
Poor man! And he has retained his dignity throughout.
God bless him and save him from all this.
November 9th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
Just a quicky agw, please let us know if mods are going to act as mods or dictators, it appears bold is the new taboo, this isn’t the new 3arses is it, perish the thought.