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OK, so in the past week I've caught up a little on the Stieg Larsson mania: finished reading "Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," watched the Swedish film, and tonight caught the second movie, "The Girl Who Played with Fire." Noomi Rapace is so perfect as damaged hacker-heroine Lisbeth Salander that it seems like a waste to spend any time trying to cast the part for the English-language film version. No, really: why bother? The latest casting news from Anne Thompson is that Natalie Portman is too old, Ellen Page may be accent-challenged, and the producers are down to considering France's Lea Seydoux, American Rooney Mara or Australians Sarah Snook and Sophie Lowe. Daniel Craig is set to play the reporter Mikael Blomqvist, but it's hard to buy that one either. Robin Wright as the editor Erika Berger...yeah, I can live with that. Anyway, it's nice to see an investigative journalist at a scrappy, no-fear magazine as a hero figure on screen.
*I meant to include: Nora Ephron's spoof in The New Yorker, The Girl Who Fixed the Umlaut.