Word: ridden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...England, was the first of a projected tetralogy on gay life in modern America. The Beautiful Room Is Empty (1988) chronicles gay life through the liberated 1960s; if White lives long enough, he hopes to complete the series with novels about the frenzied bathhouse '70s and the plague-ridden '80s. In the meantime he is working on a biography of Jean Genet and teaching courses on the French playwright and on creative writing at Brown University. Although his semiautobiographical coming-out themes are staples of gay fiction, White has transcended the genre with his wit, attention to sensuous detail...
While Marshall and the film's writers have consciously drawn themes from Hitchcock, they are not above taking liberties with them, and provide Arachnophobia with welcome comic relief. Marshall's wit (he co-wrote Blazing Saddles) is evident in his direction of a series of suspense-ridden false alarms. He keeps the audience off-balance by allowing it at times to come away with a laugh when expecting another gruesome killing. A typical example is the shower scene, an obvious allusion to Psycho, which comes to a far more humourous conclusion than Hitchcock's version...
...L.A.P.D. claims it has the support of crime-ridden minority communities for the harsh crackdown on the gangs. But residents retort that whatever support they give the police stems from their even greater fear of trigger- happy gangs. Says Regina Jones, a black publicity consultant and former police department radio operator who lives in South Central Los Angeles: "People are frightened of the police, but they are more frightened of our own youth." Epigmenio Alvarez, a factory worker, complains that roadblocks set up by police to disrupt the movement of gang members and drug dealers in mostly Hispanic East...
Thunder, quite simply, is Top Gun II, the continuing adventures of Tom Cruise and his ongoing relationship with fast motorized vehicles. Once more, the entire cast is back: the same cocksure motorcycle-riding Cruise, the patented Simpson/Bruckheimer ethos, the guitarladen soundtrack, and the same formula-ridden script...
...shake-out is at hand. Magazines are going under or changing hands at a dizzying rate. Owen Lipstein's Psychology Today suspended publishing in February; struggling monthlies such as CMP's Long Island Monthly and Time Inc. Magazines' Southpoint went out of business; Rupert Murdoch's debt-ridden News Corp. sold the gossipy Star to the National Enquirer and delayed plans to launch its own weekly newsmagazine...