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...Ginia Bellafante
...Ginia Bellafante
...Shining" into a three-part, six-hour miniseries. Featuring a teleplay by King himself, it would be sweet irony to report that this venture, starring Wings? Steven Weber in the Jack Nicholson role of Jack Torrance, is richer, more horrific than Kubrick?s take. Sadly, notes TIME's Ginia Bellafante, this is not the case. "Strip away a zombie or two, and the menacing topiary animals that grace the lawn of the deserted Overlook Hotel, which Torrance, his wife Wendy (Rebecca De Mornay) and son Danny (Courtland Mead) are entrusted to care for over a long winter, and 'Stephen King...
...Ginia Bellafante
...will have any relation to the last. But then arbitrariness is the show?s only distinguishing element. In the first episode, dwarfs appear as waiters at a swank hotel for no explicable reason. "In some ways, 'Gun' resembles a camp version of Altman?s 'Short Cuts,'" says TIME's Ginia Bellafante. "Like that film, it offers vignettes of the striving and the desperate...