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...must be said that director Barry Levinson and screenwriter Paul Attanasio are great guys to waste time with. As he's proved with Quiz Show, the latter has a real flair for writing strong, confrontational scenes--brisk, needling, well shaped--and the former stages them with coolly concentrated intensity. And the cast is terrific. Douglas, with Fatal Attraction and Basic Instinct behind him, knows all about playing male victimization without total loss of amour propre. Moore's ferocity is totally unredeemed, therefore totally riveting. Donald Sutherland as their boss is computer-like: he has an almost-human brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEX! CONTROVERSY! BOX OFFICE! | 2/6/1995 | See Source »

...darkly comic film Pulp Fiction cleaned up with four awards from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association: best film, director and screenplay (Quentin Tarantino) and best actor (John Travolta). Robert Redford's Quiz Show was voted best picture by the New York Film Critics Circle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week December 11 -17 | 12/26/1994 | See Source »

...must be said that director Barry Levinson and screenwriter Paul Attanasio are great guys to waste time with. As he's proved with Quiz Show, the latter has a real flair for writing strong, confrontational scenes -- brisk, needling, well shaped -- and the former stages them with coolly concentrated intensity. And the cast is terrific. Douglas, with Fatal Attraction and Basic Instinct behind him, knows all about playing male victimization without total loss of amour propre. Moore's ferocity is totally unredeemed, therefore totally riveting. Donald Sutherland as their boss is computer-like: he has an almost-human brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Sex! Controversy! Box Office! | 12/19/1994 | See Source »

...against the treaty. "I started off believing I would probably vote for it. I'm a strong advocate of free trade but, after reading it, I'm going to vote against it," Sen. Hank Brown (R.-Colo.) told reporters after taking up a Nader challenge to take his "GATT Quiz." Brown eagerly took Nader's bait and changed his vote as a result.Post your opinion on theWashingtonbulletin board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NADER QUIZ NABS A VOTE | 11/28/1994 | See Source »

...that piece, Lauren intended to create "positive profiles of people who [sic] we admire." Why not throw the hard questions at them? Why not quiz these "role models" about how they achieved success so early, what motivated them, what obstacles they faced? "Swing doesn't have to be an angry downtown magazine to connect," Lauren explains...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: Swing Kids | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

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