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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cranston's career as the Shadow, then, is his penance for his formerly corrupt lifestyle, not a whim he indulges in. And he doesn't act alone. In fact, whenever the Shadow saves your life, it belongs to him, as he tells the scientist whom he rescues from mobsters at the beginning of the movie. The Shadow uses his "agents" to keep him posted on evil doings within the city...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, | Title: The Shadow Knows Entertainment | 7/8/1994 | See Source »

...disrupted by the arrival of Shiwan Khan, a direct descendent of Genghis Khan, who wishes to take over the world--starting with the Big Apple. He plans to use the semi-mythical material broncium in an implosive device--something which Cranston christens an "atomic bomb." "Catchy," replies the scientist (yup, the one he saved at the beginning) who tells him about the broncium...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, | Title: The Shadow Knows Entertainment | 7/8/1994 | See Source »

...Shadow" also boasts well-rounded, well-acted characters. As Cranston's sort-of girlfriend Margo Lane, Penelope Ann Miller manages to be both sexy and sharp, using her spotty telepathic powers to help out Cranston. Lane's father Reinhardt is the classic absorbed-in-his-work scientist (who can't tell the difference between red and green), but Ian McKellen gives the character a subdued charm...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, | Title: The Shadow Knows Entertainment | 7/8/1994 | See Source »

...neck with her long red hair. On June 18, her husband made sure she could not afford even that strand of camouflage. Ted ambushed Dana (not their real names) as she walked from her car to a crafts store in Denver. Slashing with a knife, Ted, a pharmaceutical scientist, lopped off Dana's ponytail, then grabbed her throat, adding a fresh layer of bruises to her neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Violence Hits Home | 7/4/1994 | See Source »

...beautiful widow left destitute by the will of her plutocrat husband. The surreptitious exhumation of a corpse while fog swirls in the phosphorescent light of early dawn. A treasure chest crammed with cash. Innocent children falling victim to a mad scientist in pursuit of the secret of eternal life. A brilliant, tormented young hero who says things like, "Either I am mad and should be committed, or the generations of Pembertons are doomed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: City of the Living Dead E.L. | 6/20/1994 | See Source »

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