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 11th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
Mortgages on mansions in the midlands can be mega expensive - how’s that for alliteration?
November 11th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
Where did the other 180,000 go ?
November 11th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
Hmm whose arithmetic do you think is at fault? Surely not the saintly pair?
November 11th, 2008 at 11:52 pm
Montaillou: “The company, which is directed by Francisco Marco, publicized that they received 60 thousand euros for six months of work. The coverage of expenses against the presentation of receipts earned them an additional 108 thousand euros.”
That’s 10,000 p/month in fees and 18,000 in expenses…
November 11th, 2008 at 11:51 pm
a whole new world
November 11th, 2008 at 11:51 pm
Doris think what fun we can now have with our [not] friends - perhaps they’ll desert us in despair?
November 11th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
November 11th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
November 11th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
I stopped watching after the Judy Dench programme. Just the sight of those three old men at the cenotaph had me in tears.
November 11th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
OOPS
November 11th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
MONTAILLOU , CHATELAINE :GRIN:
November 11th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
Trying to be a bit more careful this time, what fun. Small things please smnall minds.
November 11th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
Either everyone is waiting for the sh*t to hit the fan, regarding payment to witnesses, or they are watching the really sad program about WWI which doesn’t finish til 11.40.
I can’t watch any more, I’ve shed enough tears today to last me til next Nov 11th. They’ve just read out a letter from a kid, to his mother, telling her he is to be shot at dawn, and not to be cross with him.
November 11th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
November 11th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
Goodnight Doris. No need to downloda with this from Chatelaine and i can see where I’ve gone wrong. See ya.
November 11th, 2008 at 11:42 pm
:*smile*:
:*grin*:
:*sad*:
:*shock*:
:neutral
Just testing, I’m ecstatic
November 11th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
Good night, Doris
November 11th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
Thank you so much Chatelaine I had no idea it was so simple - Doris are you still there too? We’ll be able to bore eveyone to death with our emoticons, a nice word.
November 11th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
I would have to look that up, Montaillou, but the difference was “enormous” … no way the 50,000 + 8,000 a month, which has been mentioned.
November 11th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
Montaillou , I had downloaded that a while ago and it semmed to attract unwanted junk so I deleted it afterwards but if you think it is ok I shall do it again , I am going to bed now as have had insomnia for about a week !! goodnight all , hope you are all , well most of you are here tomorrow !!
November 11th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
E.g. :*cry*: without asterix would be
November 11th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
In january this year we got the following guidelines for smilies in comments:
Below is a list of some Smilies currently supported in Opinions. In the examples that follow I have included an * before and after the emoticon text to enable you to ’see’ what must be typed. When you want to use any of these smiles in your posts, however, DO NOT type the *. Instead, type the emoticon text preceded IMMEDIATELY and after by a colon, i.e., no space between the colons and the text.
:*smile*:
:*grin*:
:*sad*:
:*shock*:
:*???*:
:*cool*:
:*mad*:
:*razz*:
:*neutral*
:*wink*:
:*lol*:
:*oops*:
:*cry*:
November 11th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
Chatelaine I didn’t read that bit, what do M3 claim to have received? There are huge great craters in that fund imo
November 11th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
Trouble is I’m so thick I can’t really tell the nuances between some of the smilies, I need a glossary, a nice picture book with explanations, suitably punctuated, and come to think of it, without the covers ripped off.
November 11th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
Montaillou Says:
November 11th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
Chatelaine I was absolutely amazed by that report. If it’s true it fairly vindicates all of us who smelt something very very fishy. [...]
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I’m also looking forward to an explanation of the enormous differences between what BK and the McCs say they paid M3 and what M3 themselves claims to have cashed …
November 11th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
Doris there’s somewhere you can go, possibly on this site, to read about smilies but it seems to involve downloading them etc etc and I just felt life wasn’t long enough. On the other side you can just pick them off the box at the side - maybe this super duper new Anorak site that whoosh clunks its own threads will have a selection of nice smilies for us as compensation?
November 11th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
anyway I want the frownies and evils
November 11th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
Chatelaine I was absolutely amazed by that report. If it’s true it fairly vindicates all of us who smelt something very very fishy. Perhaps that’s where the mob all are tonight, thinking up rebuttals, excuses, or maybe just scarpering with tails between legs. That would be fun.
November 11th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
yes it has worked for you , I shall go on a course tomorrow for grammar and smileys , most exciting
November 11th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
Montaillou Says:
November 11th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
And as you see it doesn’t always work.
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It’s imperative to keep space between the smilies, Montaillou