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...movie The Manchurian Candidate, Frank Sinatra, unable to fathom the depth and extent of the evil that had been done to the mind of a man programmed to become a killer, cries, "Hell, hell!" People may say the same thing after last week's school shooting of a six-year-old girl by a six-year-old boy. On Tuesday the boy brought a pistol to an elementary school in Mount Morris Township, near Flint, Mich., and shot a classmate, Kayla Rolland, to death. He is too young to be charged with anything, but the county prosecutor has charged...
...warm confines of the Ritz Carlton. Outside, the snow-covered streets and gloomy sky create a somewhat fitting backdrop for an interview with the director of Reindeer Games, whose newest film is the latest product of a long and distinguished career. The creative mind behind films such as Manchurian Candidate, Birdman of Alcatraz,and Ronin is using the flowers as an example of props on a movie set making a statement. He has a few statements of his own to make, as Crimson Arts catches up with the legendary director...
...television shows, most of which were not thrillers. I won the Emmy four consecutive years, just recently, doing cable films (Against the Wall, The Burning Season, Andersonville, George Wallace), none of which were thrillers. Some of my best movies are not thrillers (Birdman of Alcatraz, Grand Prix). I did Manchurian Candidate, and it was a huge success, and I got offered a lot of these things. And then, for a while, my career didn't do that well, and then I made a big comeback doing Black Sunday, and then I tried to get away from it doing some other...
...honest. When I first heard about a new Ben Affleck film called Reindeer Games, my initial reaction was: Christmas movie. Keep in mind, I hadn't read the plot summary and this was before I knew that legendary director John Frankenheimer (Manchurian Candidate, Ronin) was at the helm. Given all that, wouldn't you agree that it was an honest reaction? Wouldn't you expect Reindeer Games to be a light-hearted story, filled to the brim with good will and holiday cheer...
...Manchurian. In the 1962 John Frankenheimer film The Manchurian Candidate, a former POW war hero is brainwashed and becomes an assassin in a Communist plot to take over the presidency. John McCain is known in certain circles as "The Manchurian Candidate...