Playbill
March, 2005
In Stolen ScreamsSimon Cooper tracks the investigation into the bold August 2004 theft in Oslo of Edvard Munch's painting The Scream. "I always like stories that involve cops and robbers and a bit of glamour," he says. "There is definitely a veneer of class to art theft. And the connections between art theft and other sorts of crime are very exciting—it's The Thomas Crown Affair meets Heat."The artwork that accompanies Chuck Palahniuk's new tale, Punchdrunk, is by Geoffrey Gr...
