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...movie, stop reading now and get a hold of it. It's unique in many ways, not least as a Hutton vehicle. Sturges, a raffish character who was every bit as rumbustious as his star, nonetheless cast her as the recipient of most of the mayhem rather than the perp; and he didn't give her any numbers to sing. The set pieces here are all conversations - between Trudy and Norval or Trudy and her savvy kid sister (Diana Lynn) - eight extended dialogues, from two to four mins. long, and most of them done without cutting away. That means...
...especially indebted to Anthony Shaffer's play and film Sleuth, in which the wily perpetrator revels in elaborate gamesmanship, with a soupcon of sadism and a killer of a kicker. The talking doll in Saw is a direct descendant of a toy that the Sleuth perp uses for malevolent effect. In a 2001 interview, Shaffer said he was inspired to write his mystery after taking part in one of Stephen Sondheim's maniacally elaborate treasure hunts. One clue directed players to a nearly deserted town near a lake. When they found the pertinent clue, a hand jutted...
...Since then it's been the other side's turn. This week, when Nifong charged a third suspect, team co-captain Dave Evans, Evans did not pull his jacket over his head and slouch through his perp walk. He called his own press conference. "You have all been told some fantastic lies," he declared, "and I look forward in watching them unravel in the weeks to come, as they already have in weeks past, and the truth will come out." His lawyer referred not to the victim, but "the false accuser," and released results of a polygraph supporting Evans' story...
...itchy pink raised welts on their arms and legs. Since they often spend hot nights with their windows open, they thought the problem was mosquitoes. But when the bites got worse and no flying culprit appeared in their New York apartment, the pair turned to the Internet. The real perp? Bed bugs...
...good many of those renters, those consumers of hotel porn, have to be red-staters. Which is why, among all the cries in favor of traditional values and against naughty TV, you haven't seen many county sheriffs or G-men forcing the old smut peddler do a perp walk. Porn doesn't affront contemporary community standards. It is a contemporary community standard...