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Word: closetland (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...William Richert, a novice writerdirector, strode out of Closetland with a pair of black-comic fantasias on the lust for power: Winter Kills and Success. What happened next would fulfill a paranoid's darkest hopes. With all the good grace of a Mafia don consigning a nosy reporter to cement sneakers in the East River, Hollywood offhandedly dumped Richert's films. Winter Kills, which twisted an assassination scenario into high-voltage satire, was pulled from release after a few weeks. Success, a screwball comedy on the doppelganger theme, was left to molder in its distributor's vaults...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Power Plays | 3/7/1983 | See Source »

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