conversations.from: human
conversations.value: What could be a title for a book about SCOOP, Don&#39;t, Julia&#39;s with the genre: Children's Books, Growing Up & Facts of Life?
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: A title for this book could be 'Scoop'
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: What is a plot for a book titled Scoop about SCOOP, Don&#39;t, Julia&#39;s with the genre: Children's Books, Growing Up & Facts of Life?
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: Scoop (2006 film): Following the memorial service for investigative reporter Joe Strombel (McShane), Strombel\'s spirit finds himself on the barge of death with several others, including a young woman who believes she was poisoned by her employer, Peter Lyman (Jackman).\nThe woman tells Strombel she thinks Lyman, a handsome British aristocrat with political ambitions, may be the Tarot Card Killer, a notorious serial killer of prostitutes, and that he killed her when she stumbled onto his secret.\nThe Tarot Card Killer left a card on each murder victim\'s body.\nSondra Pransky (Johansson) is a beautiful but awkward American journalism student on vacation in London.\nPransky attends a performance given by magician Sid Waterman (Allen), aka "The Great Splendini", and agrees to participate on the stage.\nWhile in a booth known as The Dematerializer, Pransky encounters Strombel\'s ghost.\nThe ghost has escaped the Grim Reaper himself to impart his suspicions of Lyman to a journalist who can investigate the story.\nSondra decides to infiltrate Lyman\'s privileged world and find out if he truly is the dreaded criminal, enlisting Sid in the process and taking advantage of his powers of deception.\nSondra catches Lyman\'s attention by pretending to drown near him at an exclusive club\'s swimming pool.\nWhen he rescues her, she introduces herself as Jade Spence, daughter of a wealthy oil family from Palm Beach.\nWhile Sid poses as her father, "Jade" begins dating Lyman.\nSondra is convinced Lyman is the murderer, but Sid finds it hard to believe.\nAs the film progresses, however, Sondra falls in love with Lyman and begins to trust him.\nMeanwhile, Sid becomes less sanguine about Lyman as he notices more and more inconsistencies, especially after Sondra finds a Tarot deck hidden under a French horn in Peter\'s vault, a climate-controlled music room containing expensive antique musical instruments.\nSid finally prevails upon Sondra to write a news story implicating Lyman, but the newspaper editor refuses the story because of Sondra\'s lack of proof.\nThroughout their investigation, Sid and Sondra have a relationship that is in turns friendly, paternal, and antagonistic—fueled largely by Sondra\'s annoyance that her smooth "Jade Spence" charade is being compromised by Sid\'s obnoxious attempts to act the part of a nouveau riche oil baron.\nSoon the police arrest the real Tarot Card Killer.\nSondra, relieved that her suspicions were for naught, reveals her real name and the deception she and Sid had practiced.\nLyman is surprisingly gracious, and tells Sondra he desires to keep seeing her.\nThey plan to spend the weekend at Lyman\'s isolated country estate.\nLater, Sid (at Strombel\'s urging) suggests that Lyman used the Tarot Card murders to cover up a murder he committed.\nWhile Sondra and Lyman vacation in the country, Sid continues to investigate this theory.\nHe finds that Lyman did frequent a prostitute, Betty Gibson, who was later killed, apparently by the Tarot Card Killer.\nGibson is described as a "baby-faced blonde" (just like Sondra) before Lyman convinced her to dye her hair, presumably to match the profile of the other Tarot victims.\nWhen Sid calls Sondra with his findings, she waves them off.\nUnbeknownst to her, Lyman is ominously listening in on another extension.\nSid breaks into Lyman\'s vault again, this time finding a mysterious key, which turns out to be of Betty Gibson\'s flat.\nMeanwhile, out on a rowboat in Lyman\'s lake, Lyman confesses to Sondra that he killed Gibson to stop her blackmailing him, and he used the Tarot Card pattern to allay suspicion, just as Strombel had told Sid.\nLyman comments on the irony that he first met Sondra by saving her from drowning, and now she really would drown.\nHe would kill Sid later; no one would connect an obscure stage magician\'s death to that of a clumsy journalism student.\nThis scene is intercut with shots of Sid driving madly to the Lyman estate to rescue Sondra ultimately ending in a car crash.\nAfter his confession, Lyman throws Sondra into the lake and watches her go under.\nHe then calls the police to report her drowning death.\nWhen they question him, he tells them of how Sondra was a terrible swimmer and how she almost drowned that first day at the pool.\nSuddenly, Sondra enters, soaking wet but smiling cheerfully.\nShe informs Lyman and the police that the drowning had been an act to get his attention, and actually she was a very good swimmer.\nBack in the newspaper offices, the editor who previously rejected Sondra\'s article now congratulates Sondra on a brilliant piece of investigative journalism, the start of a promising career.\nSondra seems flattered, and says she must also credit Joe Strombel and the late Sid Waterman, Splendini, who is now a passenger on the Reaper\'s ship, performing for his fellow spirits the same magical gags and comedy routines he did in life.