1.   Should we gasp to learn that the ensuing story is laced with betrayal, sex, violence and cannelloni?

2.   The story is laced with cinematic opportunities, with its mansions and Jazz Age fashions.

3.   Tanovic laces his story with wicked humor.

4.   The Broome story was laced with accounts of abundant cocaine and alcohol, and insiders say things have only gotten wilder.