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Sometimes they sound like catty old fishwives. But this is a very male form of gossip -- verbal machismo. With their edgy patter, the guys test themselves, their friends, their victims; every conversation is a pop quiz with life on the line. And when they do shut up, it's often to blow someone away, or do drugs, or sink into edgy pensiveness. In Tarantino's film there are no comfortable silences...
Television: The real scandal is how Quiz Show treats...
Sahl offered his opinion on a broad range of topics ranging from the film "Quiz Show" (an unrealistic topic) to Bosnia (empty threats) to consumer activist Ralph Nader (asexual...
...riveted to their sets during Charles Van Doren's 14-week reign on NBC's Twenty-One. The bookish champ became an unlikely national hero -- until it was revealed that he had been fed answers to the show's often obscure questions, a scandal dramatized in the new film Quiz Show. Could today's intellectuals handle actual questions asked of Van Doren? Without cheating? Time put these five to the test...
Indeed, watching the film Quiz Show, a compressed and therefore somewhat distorted version of his story, you can't help but think that these days Van Doren would have entered a 12-step program for liars, negotiated a million- dollar deal for a confessional book and eventually gone into politics. It is one of the several virtues of this thoughtful and hugely entertaining movie that it encourages such reflections. Written with clean-cut force by Paul Attanasio and directed with panache by Robert Redford -- they know how to efficiently shape a character and point a scene -- Quiz Show neither nostalgizes...