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...often looked for inspiration to the world of comic books, usually superhero juvenilia like The Flash or The Incredible Hulk. But TALES FROM THE CRYPT is a different kettle of rotting fish. Based on the seedy old E.C. horror comics, each half-hour episode is a ghoulish black comedy that aims less for thrills or scares than for gleefully evoked squirms. The show, garnering high ratings in its third season on HBO, demonstrates another quality rare in TV: it is improving with age. Introduced by a cackling, skeletal "crypt keeper," the stories barrel along with logic-bending abandon; even when...
Arnold Schwarzenegger is a director too. This year he did The Switch, a 25- minute episode on the cable-TV series Tales from the Crypt. It's a little morality play that asks the question, What do you have to do to become Arnold Schwarzenegger...
Allen's task is to convince the NCR chief that this acquisition would not become another tale from the crypt. Although Exley has threatened to resign if "AT&T succeeds in shooting its way into NCR," analysts think he can be persuaded by a higher price. NCR has indicated a willingness to submit, but at $125 a share (for a $8.5 billion total) rather than the $90 offered by AT&T. Wall Street observers think the two sides will settle at around $105 a share. For its part, AT&T refuses to back down. In a letter to Exley, Allen...
...long, colonnaded, concrete arcade, achieves serenity by way of severity. His 1976 school in the town of Fagnano was a similarly stripped-down collection of elemental components. Yet, as if to confound those who would pigeonhole him as a weltschmerzy ascetic, Rossi took the opposite tack for a family crypt completed in 1987. The little chapel has a sweet brick exterior, with oddly incomplete cornice and a carved-wood interior of pediments, columns and mock windows...
...travel, and Fox's new Alien Nation postulates a Los Angeles of the future, where people from another planet are trying to integrate into American society. Cable is going for classy shocks in such series as Shelley Duvall's Nightmare Classics on Showtime and HBO's Tales from the Crypt, adapted from the old E.C. horror comics and directed by such notables as Walter Hill (48 HRS.) and Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future...