Word: devilish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...personally, one comes across an exquisite perplexity as they try to untangle the revolution from the man who made it, the hero of the revolution from the villain who brought it to cataclysm. Those who attended him during his glory days and in his madness wonder what caused the devilish change in him, as well as when it took place...
They put Bill Miner in San Quentin for robbing stagecoaches. By the time he was released, some 30 years later, Wells Fargo had sold its horses and invested in railroads, and the movies had been invented in order to fill idle minds with devilish ideas. Watching The Great Train Robbery in 1903, the old gent perceives a profitable way to enliven his sunset years. All he needs is horses, a few accomplices and, of course, some trains to stick...
Under the clever direction of Jon Matthews Magaril, the cast captivates both adults and children as they portray the myriad of Wonderland characters, including Tweedles Dee and Dum, the Red Queen, the Mad Hatter and The Door Mouse, and the devilish Cheshire Cat Led by the ebullient Amy Brenneman as Alice, the cast of seven entertains the audience with lively caricatures of the fairy-tale-like creatures...
Alexander's attempt to withstand his restraints placed on him by his stereotypically devilish stepfather (Jan Malmsio) is vividly etched as the Bishop beats him while trying to defeat his rebelliousness. Throughout his trials to escape his stepfather. Alexander is visited--or rather haunted--by the ghost of his father--who, ironically enough, died while paying Hamlet's father. But Alexander never becomes Hamlet and his mother never truly becomes the deluded Gertrude. Instead, Alexander withstands his father's appearance, and his mother fights for her own escape. Through the semi-occult figure of Grandmother Helena's former lover...
...hottest Hollywood directors know how to make thrillers, comedies, love stories, even the arrant musical. But few have chosen to dramatize what they have learned best: the secrets of power. These are the film industry's true guilty pleasures-the devilish legerdemain of dealmaking, the bending of a hundred egos to a common purpose, the fine art of humiliating an old friend-and every movie Machiavelli has his own closetful...