-- the
kidnappers are led
by Karim (Idir Chender), no longer a kid and eager to trade Cal for the
release of someone who... let's just say the list of atrocities this person's committed in the name of Palestine has made him notorious.
Among the high - profile premieres this year are «Antz,» the new Dreamworks animated film; James Ivory's «A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries,» with Kris Kristofferson playing a character inspired
by novelist James Jones; «Dancing at Lughnasa,» starring Meryl Streep in the film of Brian Friel's celebrated play; John Waters» «Pecker,» with Edward Furlong as a fast - food worker whose photos are embraced
by the New York art world; Helena Bonham Carter and Kenneth Branagh in «The Theory of Flight,» about a work -
release prisoner assigned to a woman with Lou Gehrig's disease; Ben Stiller as a drug - addicted TV writer in «Permanent Midnight»; Christina Ricci in «Desert Blue,» about slim prospects for a teenager in a town of 89 people; «The Imposters,» the new film
by Stanley («Big Night») Tucci, starring Tucci and Oliver Platt as cruise - ship stowaways; «Rushmore,» with Jason Schwartzmann as a prep schooler who is a lousy student but hyperactive in campus activities; Cameron Diaz in «Very Bad Things,» about a bachelor party that ends in murder; Cate Blanchett as «Elizabeth,» the story of England's 16th century monarch, and «The Judas Kiss,» with FBI agent Emma Thompson on the trail of the
kidnapper of a computer genius.
The
kidnappers used a shotgun to keep him in their clutches for two days before Lampert negotiated his own
release and walked
by himself to the Greenwich, Connecticut, police station.