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...detective named Will Graham who was on the trail of a particularly gruesome serial killer dubbed the Red Dragon. During long nocturnal walks through a cotton field, Harris came up with an ingeniously creepy notion: Graham would seek expert advice from a murderer he had captured years earlier--the baddest serial killer of them all, one Dr. Hannibal Lecter...
...Edward Wood may be the Worst, but Oscar Micheaux is the Baddest - with all that that implies. ... Scenes climax in a cubist explosion of herky-jerky jump cuts wherein an actor appears in a succession of slightly askew angles. ... Actors play multiple roles, some characters seem blessed with precognition while others get marooned in alternate universes. ... Lines are delivered in unison, there are awkwardly failed attempts at overlapping dialogue, some actors appear to be reciting by rote or reading cue cards.... Left stranded in scenes that are grossly overextended, his performers strike fantastic poses, stare affectingly into space, or gaze...
...York. Well, no. I love what’s happened—what’s happening—in New York: The Yankees are winning, Guiliani is losing, crime is down and tourism is up. What I hate is how New York has been co-opted. The biggest, baddest city has met his match, his master, in the form of Hollywood. The masters of spin have put New York on a diet, squeezed him into a size-four dress, airbrushed the dark spots and tied him up with a pink ribbon as a gift to restless soccer moms across...
...numbers, the biggest, baddest, thrilling-est roller coaster in North America is "Superman: The Escape" at Six Flags Magic Mountain - 415 feet high with a 328-foot drop and cars that travel as close as roller coasters get to a speeding bullet: 100 miles per hour. Behemoths like that get built for a reason - that's how park-goers want it, and a real headliner roller coaster, though it may take $20 million to build, can make a park into a financial success by drawing beer-and-bravado-laced teens from miles around...
...article by Charles Krauthammer on Bush's nuclear doctrine [ESSAY, June 12] brings to mind a history lesson gone bad. Just because we aren't in a cold war anymore, we don't have the right to abandon our arms agreements. The idea that we are the biggest and baddest and thus we can do what we want is idiocy. We need to treat others the way we want to be treated and to set the example of taking a responsible leadership role in the world community. E. TERRY LEWIS Binghamton...