Robert Langdon

Details: 2009, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Rated: Not rated The lowdown: Tom Hanks returns as Robert Langdon in this sequel to "The Da Vinci Code." Here, Langdon is called by the Vatican to help solve the kidnappings of four...

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Tom Hanks in Dan Brown's thriller, on the way to Cern. Photograph: Sony Pics/Everett/Rex Features When Tom Hanks's character, Robert Langdon, hunts down the secret Illuminati brotherhood in the film of Dan Brown's bestseller Angels &...

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...first thing I did after reading Dan Brown's "The Lost Symbol," his first novel since "The DaVinci Code," was run up to the Utah Capitol, all Robert Langdon-like, and see if the building is full of the sorts of Masonic symbols that Brown...

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...Symbol , Brown profiles one of America's most-secretive and least-understood fraternal orders, Freemasons. His hero, once again, is Robert Langdon, the Harvard professor of symbology featured in the John Liley, public relations chairman...

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...governs Scottish Rite Masons in 15 states, extending from New England to Wisconsin and Delaware. In Brown's book, Harvard professor Robert Langdon, who was also the protagonist in "The Da Vinci Code,'' must decipher a set of symbols to...

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Anyone who knows an 8-year-old boy will recognize this as a huge coup. No wonder "The Lost Symbol" lost its top spot to "Dog Days." Robert Langdon doesn't stand a chance compared to the latest adventures of Greg Heffley. And the fact...

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...a certain gruesomeness. The modern conservator does not require white gloves, regardless of what Robert Langdon does in Dan Brown's Lost Symbol when he goes to the Vatican Archives to read Galileo's Diagramma Della Verita. Boness says he may...

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...central character as Brown's previous bestseller, The Da Vinci Code - the heroic symbologist Robert Langdon. In the earlier book, Langdon was found decoding timeless legends of the Knights Templar. In the new novel, he's again tracking the...

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...Lost Symbol," Dan Brown's latest bestseller, is an engrossing but ultimately formulaic story. In modern day Washington D.C., our hero, Robert Langdon, is helplessly drawn into an elaborate tangle of codes, symbols and intrigue. The...

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...is-has already finished reading it. Of course, Hanks had a little extra motivation going in, seeing as he's twice played Brown's hero Robert Langdon on the big screen (in little pictures called "The Da Vinci Code" and "Angels & Demons"). "I...

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