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...genre's low-budget country-and-western subspecies. Michael is a classic film noir protagonist, essentially a good, slightly dim sort who is drawn into evil's web because of a momentary weakness and whose struggles to escape serve only to entangle him more tightly. In film noir, the spider at the center of such a web is usually a woman, and in this case she is Suzanne (Lara Flynn Boyle), Michael's intended victim. After he spares her, she expresses her gratitude by luring him still nearer to destruction. Film noir also typically calls for a dash of psychopathy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Equal Opportunity Evil | 5/9/1994 | See Source »

...junior also complains in another post that the noisy fire alarms have disturbed her spider plants...

Author: By Emilie L. Kao, | Title: Smoke Rises From Adams Residents' Ears | 4/11/1994 | See Source »

...know what the noise is doing to my PLANTS?" she wrote. "Spider plants WILL ATTACK YOU when they are upset (I tell...

Author: By Emilie L. Kao, | Title: Smoke Rises From Adams Residents' Ears | 4/11/1994 | See Source »

...declares Hart Fisher of Champaign, Illinois, who published the Dahmer comic. "By day they walk around unassuming, then boom! By night they turn into monsters. People want to know why." The most fascinated seem to be the most nonviolent people of all, "the kind who would find a spider in the bathroom and take it outside with a tissue," says crime writer Ann Rule, who turned her experience on a suicide- prevention hotline alongside fellow volunteer -- and serial killer -- Ted Bundy into the best-selling The Stranger Beside Me. "The more we learn about things that frighten us, the more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dances with Werewolves | 4/4/1994 | See Source »

...Haven. Broadway's favorite tryout town is still London -- of 29 current or soon-to-come Broadway productions, 13 are at least partly British in origin. That number includes not only Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals but also works by Americans, such as Angels in America, Kiss of the Spider Woman and now Carousel. David Mamet's next drama, The Cryptogram, will debut in London before it hits Broadway, just as his Pulitzer prizewinner Glengarry Glen Ross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: Furthermore: Apr. 4, 1994 | 4/4/1994 | See Source »

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