Pearl's widow, Mariane, released a two-page letter Friday thanking the world for the outpouring of support during the monthlong ordeal of her husband's abduction.

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In March, Mariane Pearl, the widow of the murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, received a phone call from Alberto Gonzales, the Attorney General.

NEWYORKER: The Black Sites

The director, Michael Winterbottom, working from a script by John Orloff, has turned Mariane Pearl's memoir into a relentlessly intense drama about the search for her husband, as well as her search for meaning in his death.

WSJ: Film Review

She plays Mariane, a journalist herself and six months pregnant at the time, as a wife who loves her husband passionately, but a woman with no time or inclination for the niceties of behavior once it's clear he has been taken prisoner.

WSJ: Film Review