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…
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November 12th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
Pamela Says:
November 12th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
‘I interpreted BF to be right flippant with her “lest we forget” remark and simply asked that it be respected. I assume you agree that it should be?’
———
But clearly you are incapable of understanding what ‘lest we forget’ means.
After all, you claim that Von Braun’s use of slave labour was not a war crime but instead the ‘ the most humanitarian thing one could have done’. You’ve yet to produce the ‘authorities’ you claim support that; unsurprisingly perhaps given that the only ‘authorities’ to claim that are Holocaust deniers like David Irving. The judges at Nuremburg took a wholly different view.
You have no respect for the 20,000 slaves who died in Von Braun’s factories, like Von Braun himself you are untroubled by those piles of corpses.
And yet you accuse BF of being flippant.
It is hardly surprising that other posters hold you in contempt…
November 12th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Matt,
And you are entitled. If you are young, don’t let this first, coming, disillusionment rob you of all faith. : )
November 12th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Time for me to exit.
Duties call.
Good sleuthing !!!
November 12th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
I think I have remarkable self control actually
November 12th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
C&C,
Yes, I understand; it is a motto here as well. It just occurred in an unfortunate sequence of posts, which I know was outside her control, and made it sound, at least to me (only arriving then) as though she was not taking it entirely seriously. Context can be everything, you know?
November 12th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
I think you will find that the English is ‘Fuckwittedity’
November 12th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Pamela Says:
November 12th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
I mistrust two Doctors.
But Dr Amaral holds my respect.
November 12th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
suits you.
November 12th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Besides, Coco will be quick to tell you that a degree virtually guarantees fukwittedness. I just prefer the word “moron.”
November 12th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Pam….. I don’t think BF was being flippant in that post I think she was commenting on posters posting around the time of the two minute silence and ‘lest we forget’ is a motto.
11 am on 11/11 is, and should be, very important over here.
November 12th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Fully Secured bank Funded Pigeon Says:
November 12th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
Think before opening your mouth in future.
lone
She did ask if anyone else fancied having a go
November 12th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
brandon flours Says:
November 12th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
But always logical.
November 12th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Matt,
But I thought you didn’t LIKE doctors?
November 12th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
I’m not just flippant
I am punitatively flippant !
November 12th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Pamela Says:
November 12th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
You ahould do some much needed research.
For instance, all PJ require a University Degree before appointment to the PJ.
Mr Amaral also has the right to call himself a Doctor.
November 12th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
You interpreted wrong and made the statement. YOU need the respect lesson. Think before opening your mouth in future.
November 12th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
And oh, Petronius, I’ve just noticed the Indian killing and slave owning bit. Are you absolutely sure that’s a limb you wish to climb out on, angel? Because, I mean, most of us stopped that bad behavioUr well before you apparently.
November 12th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Matt,
“A very intelligent and highly educated man.” I’m afraid I’m going to need to see some evidence of that.
Petronius,
Angel, do you READ what’s posted here? If you’re so effing proud of your language, perhaps you’d do well to volunteer to assist in adult literacy efforts in your own country, because it’s clearly being butchered much, much closer to home.
In the meantime, you hang onto those unnecessary u’s if it makes you feel better, sugar! I promise that there is no ongoing American plot to deprive you of them.
Maybe later you can hyperventilate about our very confusing punctuation rules for quotations or about the whole bonnet/ boot/ tyre thing.
Incidentally, that language you so graciously gave us (not to mention the free delivery!), where did you get it?
Pigeon,
Do get it right. I didn’t say it was “our” holiday, I said we were celebrating it. I interpreted BF to be right flippant with her “lest we forget” remark and simply asked that it be respected. I assume you agree that it should be?
M&A
“Artemis
I commend your self-control.
I would have been a great deal ruder.”
And have been.
Anyone ELSE fancy a go?
November 12th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Alas, poor Charlton, I knew him sort of.
His, “until it is prised from my cold dead hand”, in reference to his having to give
up his gun , still makes me smile.
November 12th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Yeahh! and the Hollywood film U571 a work of fiction based on a british WWII action
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-571_(film)
November 12th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
lone did you watch it to ” human”
November 12th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Ermm… shouldn’t that be ‘purports’ not ‘proports’ on line one?
November 12th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
Not to mention asking US to ‘give it a rest’ re. ‘Lest we forget’ because it’s THEIR Veterans day.
——-
M&A
Artemis
I commend your self-control.
I would have been a great deal ruder.
November 12th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
But… Pamela is not English, and she proports to tell us about our own language after the butchery and dumbing down that they do in the States to their own “English”?
She’s using “Z” all the time for words like organised as if this was Italian and not English that we’re speaking.
We don’t have a mini anuerysm with the past tense of Burgled to make it into “BurglariZed” we don’t get the word “purposefully” mixed up with deliberately and intentionally (as in “he walked purposefully over to the bar”) either.
We don’t say “drug” for dragged or “dove” for Dived for really obvious reasons, we also do not have a problem with words of French origin like “Honour” “Colour” Valour” and so on.
The sad thing is that you read Edgar Allen Poe and he did not write like that. Listen to FDR talk and he does not call a route a “rout”, which is a military term for when the enemy leaves the field in disorder. Making such mistakes implies a lack of reading or a really low literary standard.
Finally, we gave you your language, your name (Thomas Paine came up with is as an emigre or wanted man in the UK) your Federal structure where the different parliaments had legislative power to make unique laws for each colony or state, you also HAD taxation with representation then, and even more than we did, we only wanted the money back for the 40,000 British redcoats that were protecting you from the French (who for eg kicked Washington’s arse twice in Ohio with his crappy colonial militias that only learned how to fight suddenly when it was a rebellion for profit), we all know well that the rebellion was abbout the right to own slaves, kill Indians and keep the tax revenue for yourselves.
So when I look upon all that I feel like Charlton Heston when he finally realises that he was on Earth all along and not some insane planet run by savage apes; “Oh my Gahd, they blew it up, they blew it uuuuup!” {beats fists on floor]
The thing is that what Republicans always do online is to change the subject and then attack.
Attacking people’s grammar and spelling (while not using correct ENGLISH Grammar and spelling in the first place) is another classic example of this.
It winds us up, to have a cousin tell us imperfectly about our sacred language and gift to the world, but knowing their real history and what they have done to the English language after WWII, simplifying for those like Palin or Reagan, it’s just too funny for words.
As ever it’s the EARNESTNESS with which they do it at the same time, that’s so funny lol, it’s so cute, if only they realised it.
November 12th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
The dogs are two hundred and one - and not out!
November 12th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Pamela Says:
November 12th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
I think it is very illogical.
Mt Amaral is very far from being moronic.
A very intelligent and highly educated man.
November 12th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagggghhhhhhh!
November 12th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
and evidence of an abduction
November 12th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Perhaps we will have no more nonsense about infallible dogs.
November 12th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
Matt- “Haven’t you referred to Mr Amaral as a “Moron” ?”
That and worse I’m sure. Are you suggesting that to be wrong, illogical, or punitive? Incidentally, I’m sticking with the assessment.
GF-
I said what I said, and since I know you won’t accept my word, I suggested that you get it from the mouth or pen of a dog handler. I am pretty sure you will find that your hypothetical scenario MIGHT be possible had it happened VERY recently, but not given the conditions and elapsed time at the Jersey site.
But, fundamentally, yes; a cadaver dog cannot be considered to have made a “hit” without some corroborating evidence. If the dog is reacting to scent, something must have produced that scent. If you are suggesting a scent “hovers” in one spot for a period of years with no decompositional material to replenish it, I am positive you will find that unsupported by science.