![]() ![]() Ari Ahmed Sheikh Bakar, alias "Harry," is a spokesman for the Djibouti Code of Conduct and works with the International Maritime Organization in an effort to eliminate pirating in the Gulf of Aden. Will they or won't they get it on? Why did I feel dirty about this plot development? Dara pulled Xavier onstage during the Oscar acceptance speech she gave for her third film, an eye-of-the-storm documentary on New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, and the two share such close proximity at sea while making her follow-up in Djibouti that they get very comfortable. Her crew consists of Xavier LeBo, cameraman, grip and logistics expert twice her age at 72. Dara Barr is an Academy Award winning documentary filmmaker who touches down in the tiny African nation of Djibouti, the gateway to the Suez Canal, to make a film on Somalian pirates. Unfortunately, it's a lazy effort that never takes flight. Published in 2010, the rip roaring story attempts to triangulate Somalian pirates, Al Qaeda in the Horn of Africa and an American documentary crew, using Leonard's patented underworld patois in which the bad guys maintain they aren't so bad if only you'd get to know them. ![]() Get the kid another balloon, this one's broke. The 44th novel by Elmore Leonard (and the next to last he'd publish in his lifetime), Djibouti is like a zoo balloon that's quickly inflated to impressive size, prematurely released from the helium tank and let loose to fly around the gorilla habitat before deflating. ![]()
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