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...wedlock for a weekend tryst, isn't supposed to be deadly either. But drama is often the imagination of disaster, and horror is the escalation of primal anxieties (pregnancy, puberty, even dentistry) into touchstone fantasies (Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist, Marathon Man). Says Fatal Attraction's screenwriter James Dearden: "I wanted to take every situation to the worst-possible-case scenario and see what happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Killer! Fatal Attraction strikes gold as a parable of sexual guilt | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

...Michael Douglas) is a lawyer with a wife (the lovely Anne Archer), a child and a career to lose if his two-night stand is discovered. That the two principals are ostensibly mature professionals, not adolescent airheads, gives the film some of its fatal attractiveness. So do James Dearden's plausible, nicely observant script, Adrian Lyne's elegantly unforced direction, and Close's beautifully calibrated descent into lunacy. Together they bring horror home to a place where the grownup moviegoer actually lives. Men will suddenly, squirmingly, recall times when they barely escaped the consequences of their caprices. Women have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The War Between the Mates | 9/28/1987 | See Source »

...There's more aspects to business than academics," added John Dearden, Krannert Professor of Business Administration. "Pearson might be more up on business than some of the faculty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B-School Dean Recommends PepsiCo Boss For Tenure | 11/1/1984 | See Source »

...John Dearden, Krannert Professor of Business Administration who helps teach "Control," said yesterday that the faculty decided to replace a different question with the controversial one shortly before the exam. "If there had been more time to decide, the mistake might not have been made," he added...

Author: By Jean-christophe Castelli, | Title: Midterm Question is Nullified; B-School Faculty Cite Error | 12/4/1981 | See Source »

None of the present "Control" faculty taught the first-year section in 1978, Dearden added...

Author: By Jean-christophe Castelli, | Title: Midterm Question is Nullified; B-School Faculty Cite Error | 12/4/1981 | See Source »

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