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...steamy couple, played by Harry Hamlin and Nicollette Sheridan, develop their near fatal attraction in Deceptions, a made-for-cable movie that aired on Showtime last month. It was perhaps the definitive example of the hottest new ticket on the cable dial: the film-noir thriller. Gotham, a moody mystery about a Manhattan detective (Tommy Lee Jones) investigating an enigmatic woman (Virginia Madsen) who is supposed to be dead, was Showtime's highest-rated made-for-TV movie in 1988. Third Degree Burn, starring Treat Williams as a private eye hired to tail another mysterious blond (Madsen again...
...beach house. But The Horse Latitudes works because it is really the story of Danny's quest to get over his obsession with the amoral, alluring Lauren. Under the cover of deadpan comedy and sharp-edged eroticism, Ferrigno, a journalist from Long Beach, Calif., has produced a work of noir literature that is the most memorable fiction debut of the season. With a magic all his own, he has written an illuminating novel that never fails to entertain but also, surprisingly, makes us feel...
Crime Story (NBC, 1986-88). Producer Michael Mann brought a flashy film-noir style to TV in Miami Vice, then perfected it in this brooding, operatic underworld drama. And Anthony Denison, as gangster Ray Luca, created the TV villain who, along with J.R. Ewing, loomed as the decade's most memorable...
...first American tour this weekend, both tonight and tomorrow night. Oei will mark her first East Coast performance with a presentation of "Oidan Skroeba," a visually arresting evening combining both dance and film on a bed of white sand. Composer Rutger Van Otterloo has blended a '40s "noir" sound with medieval music and Latin rhythms to enhance this "Fellini-esque" evening of dance, theater and film...
MIAMI VICE (NBC, May 21, 9 p.m. EDT). The high-style cop show that defined TV noir for the '80s ends its five-year war on drugs with a two-hour finale. The ending is hush-hush, but the network says Crockett and Tubbs (Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas) will make their "last stand together...