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...genius of Christopher Keyser and Amy Lippman, the creators of Party of Five, has been to understand the entertainment value of emotional pain. The show is about a family of five orphans and it features enough heavy talk and tragedy to sustain an A.A. chapter. As presented by Keyser and Lippman, though, the relentless suffering is positively enjoyable. That is so partly because Party of Five offers the guilty pleasure of watching other people's troubles, but the show is much finer than any soap. When the competence of Julia (played by Neve Campbell with sensuous innocence and gravity) wounds...
...people. This time they are a group of friends in their 20s. The show's tone is much lighter and more romantic than Party of Five's, but it still has its share of anguish. Expectations are high, and if the show is a hit, it will prove that Keyser and Lippman really have the goods...
...breakthrough came in 1995 with the near simultaneous releases of The Usual Suspects, which won him an Oscar for his performance as the wily master criminal Keyser Soze, and Seven, in which he had an unbilled turn as the gruesome serial killer who cuts off Gwyneth Paltrow's head. "Whether a character does good or bad things doesn't interest me," he insists. "It's whether there are ambiguities." Later this year he will appear as the Savannah, Ga., antiques dealer accused of murder in Clint Eastwood's adaptation of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil...
...less hysteria and a more intricate plot. For its quintet of thieves lusting for the big score, The Usual Suspects convenes five scarred souls, including a chatty gimp (Spacey) and an anguished antihero (Byrne). In California on a quick job, they run up against a vicious, unseen ganglord named Keyser Soze-a name that has the smolder of Satan in it. One by one, the thieves...
PHOTOGRAPHY: Richard L. Boeth, MaryAnne Golon, Rose Keyser, Robert B. Stevens (Associate Editors); Kevin J. McVea (Operations); Renee Mancini (Syndication); Dorothy Affa Ames, Sarah Buffum, Gary Roberts, Nancy Smith- Alam, Mary Worrell-Bousquette (Assistant Editors); Cristina T. Scalet, Marie Tobias (Researchers) Bureaus: Martha Bardach, Sahm Doherty, Leny Heinen, Stanley Kayne, Glenn Mack, Barbara Nagelsmith, Anni Rubinger, Mary Thompson, Simonetta Toraldo Photographers: Forrest Anderson, Terry Ashe, P.F. Bentley, William Campbell, Greg Davis, Dirck Halstead, Barry Iverson, Kenneth Jarecke, Cynthia Johnson, Shelly Katz, Steve Liss, Peter Magubane, Christopher Morris, Robin Moyer, Carl Mydans, James Nachtwey, Robert Nickelsberg, Chris Niedenthal, David Rubinger, Anthony...