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...when picking paper topics. For my junior paper for English, I wrote on American Psycho, handing it in a couple weeks before the movie came out. Now, just as I'm immersed in thesis work on postmodern fairy tales and a book called Wicked by Gregory Maguire, I get word that ABC is running the miniseries of the novel in the spring (Demi Moore might play the Wicked Witch of the West in this revisionist Wizard of Oz). Shouldn't I get points for picking hot topics?... A WB press agent gushed, "Tori Spelling is the next Lucille Ball." Where...
...guess when Lynyrd Skynyrd can release a Christmas album, you can get away with anything... listening to "Run, Run Rudolph" ranks as one of my more excrutiating Yuletide moments. "Freebird" it isn't. It's almost as bad as the worst Christmas song ever, "Jingle Bell Rock...
Midway through Proof of Life, Terry Thorne (Russell Crowe), an elite hostage negotiator, gets on the radio and begins the long, exhaustive game of cat and mouse that will decide the fate of Peter Bowman (David Morse), an American engineer in the hands of South American radicals. The voice on the other end demands an exorbitant sum of money. Thorne calmly refuses, offering a much lower amount, and the dialogue abrutply ends with the chilling threat that Bowman is as good as dead. As the surrounding family members freak out, Thorne brushes them off, saying "You'll get used...
...much of the film feels curbed, dramatically and emotionally, to allow the story to blossom into the white-knuckle suspense ride that it so staunchly demands to be. The game of hostage negotiation is clearly a high-wire act, yet everything is so laid out that we never get the sense that things are volatile, that they could explode at any second...
...Police departments are resistant to change," Timoney acknowledged. "What's needed is enlightened leadership at the top that will get ahead of the curve...