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...McCreary's second book, The Minus Man, capitalizes on this interest in a rather touching way. Considering its subject matter, this book is surprisingly civilized. The Minus Man, a first-person account, contains lots of sordid thoughts but very little gory detail. For example, the killer uses poison, a distinctly sanitary method of murder...
...shot more arrows at Hepburn than you might find piercing the sides of St. Sebastian. Her voice was usually described in terms reserved for plumbing; her breasts were too small, her neck too scrawny; she wasn't sexy enough to play Scarlett O'Hara; she was labeled "box-office poison." And the toughest critic, Hepburn herself, says, "I was a terrible...
Thus begins the latest chapter in the tangled history of GAF. Seized by the U.S. government in 1942 for its links to Nazi Germany's I.G. Farben, infamous inventor of the poison gas used in Hitler's concentration camps, the company was owned by the feds for the next two decades. During the early 1980s, GAF fought a bitter two-year battle in boardrooms, courtrooms and newspaper ads against Heyman's ultimately victorious takeover effort. Since then, in the words of one analyst, "Heyman made a lot of money, and he made a lot of people a lot of money...
...movie budget shouldn't interest moviegoers; they pay the same ticket price for the cult hit Poison as they do for Godfather 3. But Hollywood went haywire last summer with action adventures, leaving the genre in a deep hole. And from that abyss crawls this year's budget behemoth, James Cameron's Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Arnold Schwarzenegger got a $14 million jet as his salary, but even if he had worked for free, the movie would have cost more than $80 million, or about five times what the original Terminator brought its distributor. The early word is that...
CINEMA Want to see some cult classics? Take Poison for a start...