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Detroit Free Press Terry Lawson Movies column: Terry Lawson: 'Da Vinci Code' arrives with deafening silence.

Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI)

| May 14, 2006 | Lawson, Terry | COPYRIGHT 2007 Detroit Free Press. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Terry Lawson

May 14--Psst. Have you heard about this "Da Vinci Code"?

Usually, when a movie with so much potential is opening the next weekend, you find a prominent story on this page. Star Tom Hanks and director Ron Howard are usually happy to do a few select interviews to support their films.

Yet the only promotion being done for the film version of Dan Brown's novel, which has a powerful Catholic Church sect conspiring to keep a mind-blowing secret, is the film's trailer and TV commercials.

Everything else is bolted down tight.

This is not about keeping the secret. Even those who haven't read the novel have probably …

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