Word: dunaway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Thomas Crown Affair--Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway star in this 1968 classic. In the opening scene, Thomas Crown (McQueen) masterminds a $2.6 million bank robbery of a Boston area bank. Director Norman Jewison skillfully uses split screens and bright light to build the drama for heist. But, the action at the outset is replaced by a well-planned investigation. An insurance investigator (Faye Dunaway), delves into the motives of the robber, eventually leading her to Crown...
...course of the movie examines the interaction between Dunaway and McQueen, a master-mind criminal and an intelligent investigator, as their relationship turns into an affair. Unlike many more recent movies, the drama does not depend solely on the action and the sex, but instead, delves into the psyche of the pursuer and the pursued...
VOICE OF THE PLANET (TBS, Oct. 15-19, 8:05 p.m. EDT). William Shatner plays an author who talks with the spirit of Earth (the voice of Faye Dunaway) about the planet's ecological problems. Ted Turner's environmental passion takes an odd mystical turn in this week-long series...
Chinatown's powerful, bewildering plot came to a conclusion with Gittes failing to protect his lover Evelyn Mulwray (Faye Dunaway) and her daughter/sister Katherine (Belinda Palmer) from corrupt millionare Noah Cross (John Huston). Katherine was the teenage product of the incestuous union of Evelyn and Cross, who was her father. While attempting to drive away from her pursuers, police working for Cross accidentally shot Evelyn Mulwray in the head. The absolutely hysterical Katherine was pulled from the car as Gittes, stunned by the loss of the woman he loved, looked on helplessly...
...served up original movies as well, like Faye Dunaway's Cold Sassy Tree and this month's remake of Treasure Island, starring Charlton Heston as Long John Silver. By 1992 the channel plans to churn out four made-for-TV movies a month. TNT also carries N.B.A. basketball (Turner just renewed his package of 50 regular-season games for four more years at the hefty cost of $275 million), and will offer 50 hours of exclusive Winter Olympics coverage in 1992. And if TNT seems to be stealing some thunder (and some programming) from TBS SuperStation, Turner's older...