Word: alienated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...immigration authorities detained Mousa Abu Marzook, a Palestinian whom they suspect of being a top political leader of the Middle East terrorist group Hamas, as he landed in New York City from a trip abroad. A legal-alien resident of the U.S., Marzook has lived in America for 14 years. Israel expressed interest in extraditing...
Mack's book describes 13 cases in which peoplewere abducted by aliens for sexual experiments,including that of a man who remembers an alienfemale taking a sperm sample from him, a woman whosays she gave birth to a human-alien hybrid and aman who says he had an alien wife in a paralleluniverse...
Forest Whitaker, currently being prodded by an alien on a screen near you in Species, is working on a touching project of his own. He's making his feature-film directing debut with Waiting to Exhale, the adaptation of the hugely popular 1992 novel by Terry McMillan, starring the even more popular WHITNEY HOUSTON. It's the story of four women, played by LORETTA DEVINE, Houston, ANGELA BASSETT and LELA ROCHON, who are all, for reasons mostly involving men, holding their breath. How did an actor macho enough to play a bomb expert in a bomb like Blown Away fare...
...while, director Roger Donaldson (No Way Out) keeps it all working smartly, like a serrated knife on the viewer's nerves. And the creature creators, H.R. Giger and Richard Edlund, make Sil in her alien mode look variously like evil pudding and a spiny octopus. The monster isn't the problem here; it's the humans, Sil's pursuers, who make Species turn specious. One of them (Forest Whitaker) is an "empath" who can intuit everything about Sil--her moods, motives and fears--everything except that she's standing right behind him. Alfred Molina, playing an expert in cross cultures...
Well, if smart people didn't do stupid things, there wouldn't be horror movies. And for those who indulge its inanities, this 2-D alien encounter has some final surprises, including its own baby boom. Watch out, folks. Sil has a baby. Boom...