"SLEUTH" PREMIERE IN NEW YORK

(L-R) Kenneth Branagh, Michael Caine and Jude Law arrive for the premiere of "Sleuth" at the Paris Theater in New York on October 2, 2007. (UPI Photo/Laura Cavanaugh)

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