Word: deathtrap
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Also appearing in the theaters this week is the adaptation of the hit Broadway show Deathtrap, in which homosexuality is used more to give a sharp twist to the first-act ending than as prime subject matter, though at one Los Angeles screening someone cried out at the sight of Michael Caine kissing Co-Star Christopher Reeve, "Say it isn't so, Superman!" This spring will bring Partners, about a gay policeman (John Hurt) and a straight one (Ryan O'Neal) who set up housekeeping in the Los Angeles homosexual community in order to entrap a murderer...
...couple led a golden life, dashing between a residence in London and a spacious apartment on Fifth Avenue. They became patrons of the arts, donating at least $200,000 to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and invested in Broadway plays. One hit: Deathtrap, the long-running suspense comedy about a man plotting to kill his wife...
...role in the film version of Ira Levin's Deathtrap, Actor Michael Caine is dressed to kill in a $2,500 Sulka robe and a pair of $300 silk Gucci pajamas. Caine, 47, plays Sidney Bruhl, a writer of stage thrillers who has not had a Broadway hit in years. Then a former student of his, played by Christopher Reeve, 28, turns up at his converted windmill in East Hampton, N.Y., with a murderously good play. In a plot with more twists than a Chubby Checker concert, Bruhl conspires with his wife (Dyan Cannon) to take over the manuscript...
They have charged that in the event of a fire the building, which is not equipped with automatic sprinklers, would become a deathtrap, as prisoners and workers would be unable to leave by elevator or stair, and fire truck ladders could not reach them...