Daniel Craig

Apparently cooked up by a squad of Oxford-educated chimps and edited by a team of Iron Chefs soused on sake, the fourth version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers has nothing going for it except the smashing good looks of Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig. Set mostly in present-day Washington, with a long stop in Baltimore, The Invasion is even worse than the forgotten 1993 version, Body Snatchers, and that was set on a boring military base. Even if you sense the movie dead-ending at the close of every sequence, the pull of the central idea may keep you hooked for a while.

Based on the trailer alone, moviegoers have been saying that the James Bond of Casino Royale is not your daddy's 007. And he's not. He's actually your granddaddy's 007. Casino Royale (Sony) Starring Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright. Directed by Martin Campbell. Rated PG-13. Time 144 minutes.

Politics isn't for shrinking violets, and what better time to toot your own horn than when you're running for U.S. Senate? So Allan J. Lichtman, an American University professor hoping to be Maryland's newest Democratic senator, does a little bragging on his campaign Web site. He talks about his education: Brandeis (Phi Beta Kappa) and Harvard (Ph.D). His six books. His voting rights work that "ended the egregious dual system of registration in Mississippi; brought voting rights to African-Americans in Selma, Alabama, the birthplace of the Voting Rights Act; established the first opportunities for Latinos to elect candidates of their choice to the Los Angeles County government.

Now we know we're hitting the big time: James Bond has been seen on the streets of Baltimore and will be stationed here for at least another few weeks. British actor Daniel Craig, set to be introduced as the next 007 at a London news conference today, has been in Baltimore since late last month. He's playing opposite Nicole Kidman in The Visiting, a film about invading aliens - it'll be the fourth screen adaptation of Jack Finney's 1955 novel, Invasion of the Body Snatchers - that is largely being filmed here and in Washington.

On August 9, 2005, DOROTHY "PAT" TUCK (nee Anderson), wife of Kenneth Tuck; mother of Michele Osborne, Michael Myers and Joseph Czawlytko; grandmother of Daniel Craig, Steven Haynes, Michael and Christopher Czawlytko, Justin and Jessica Holliday. Services private.

The gangster as GQ-style middle man is the good joke behind Layer Cake. This cheeky, brass-knuckles British crime film stars Daniel Craig as an all-business London drug dealer who views coke strictly as a commodity but can't help getting sucked into the sordid vortex of the underworld. A smart leading man with a wild comic streak, Craig capitalizes on the role of a spiffy guy who gets semi-unglued when circumstances demand muscle. Simultaneously, he's assigned to locate the missing daughter of his boss man's old friend and to broker a hot stash of Ecstasy.