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...until the paint on the truck hood curled, ragged webs of dry rain that never hit the ground..." On this fine recitation goes, by sheer loopy eloquence getting a couple of beat-up bull riders from rodeo to rodeo in their falling-apart pickup, ending with, "...turning into midnight motel entrances with RING OFFICE BELL signs or steering onto the black prairie for a stunned hour of sleep." That's in a story called The Mud Below, and it just about nails pickup trucks and rodeo soldiers...
...sitcom Suddenly Susan and has a role in the current release Forces of Nature; of an apparent suicide; in Las Vegas. Strickland, who was due to appear in court last week as part of his probation for an October cocaine-possession arrest, was found hanged in a motel room...
...party near the Longwood campus. Slipping heavy sedatives into the prefrosh's drink, the physicians-in-training then dragged him to a laboratory classroom, removed his kidneys for sale to an illegal organ-donation agent, and placed his kidney-less body in a bathtub packed with ice in a motel room in Allston. The unsuspecting high school senior woke up just in time to follow the instructions, written in lipstick on his chest: "Call 9-1-1 or you will die." The two medical students were promptly expelled and later convicted in Massachusetts state court. But for fear...
...even some older, repeat offenders are getting punishments that seem ridiculously disproportionate to their crimes. Consider Douglas Gray, a husband, father, Vietnam veteran and owner of a roofing business who bought a pound of marijuana in an Alabama motel for $900 several years ago. The seller turned out to be a police informant, a felon fresh from prison whom cops paid $100 to do the deal. Because Gray had been arrested for several petty crimes 13 years earlier--crimes that didn't even carry a prison sentence--he fell under the state's "habitual offender" statutes. He got life without...
Indeed, the whole film is in a style we'll call contempo-retro. It is beautifully shot by Christopher Doyle, who turns the puky green of motel lighting into a circle of Hell, and it features a busy sound track of rattlesnakes and buzzing flies--moral decay in the desert. Everything else is defiantly same-old. This Psycho is radical because it has not only the dialogue but also the tempo of a film almost 40 years...