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...sullied that belief." Gradually, the novels began to reflect her own preoccupations. "The more I searched for his voice, the more I caught my own breaking through," she writes. She used the death of a child - her own single-mom fear at the time - as a plot device. That, plus Tiger's munificence, lavish parties and working trips to his French estate, helped make the job bearable. Yet the strain grew worse. "Can one write from another person's heart?" she asks. "It's like trying to fake sincerity." Erdal's misgivings came to a head after her new husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Writer's Writer | 11/21/2004 | See Source »

...Forgotten has the makings of an intelligent paranoid thriller, but I found nothing spectacular or terrifying in it, only government agents scrambling to hide a conspiracy and scrambled plot lines trying to hide a lack of creativity, despite the guarantee a seemingly competent cast should offer. Julianne Moore’s Telly Paretta is a likeable everywoman. Her therapist (Gary Sinise), is appropriately authoritarian, while her husband (ER’s Anthony Edwards) appears to be phoning in his support from another planet. They are too hampered by the product they’ve been asked to deliver to hope...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happening | 11/19/2004 | See Source »

...group, Aaron (Shane Carruth) and Abe (David Sullivan), decide to probe what potential their creation might have: They explore the commercial possibilities of time-travel for a few hours each day, encounter dreadful mishaps in a Scooby Doo-esque fashion and finally, things end quite badly, with the audience, plot and characters in a state of sheer confusion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happening | 11/19/2004 | See Source »

...arm…the idea that a husband and wife should embrace and dance in front of others is beyond embarrassing.” Chelsom never explains what makes ballroom dance equally taboo in 21st-century Chicago. He tries to plug this plot hole subliminally instead by making Miss Mitzi’s look a lot like a brothel, but it’s hard to salvage a bungled plot with neon lighting and sweaty-palmed patrons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happening | 11/19/2004 | See Source »

...series, they tried “to keep it very simple and do storylines where there are not a lot of B-plot, but when you do a 75-minute movie that becomes difficult,” says Hillenburg. “We did the movie [because] we wanted to tackle a larger story with greater stakes, [one] that had an arc for SpongeBob, something where he actually goes through growth in the movie...

Author: By Alexandra B. Moss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Sponge’ Creator Talks Bob | 11/19/2004 | See Source »

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