Word: scream
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...same phone booth, since his wife is on to him and has been checking his cellular bills. (Quick note to Dawson’s Creek fans and guys who might drop eight bucks on this flick just to see Holmes: she gets less screen time than Drew Barrymore in Scream...
After Stu hangs up the receiver in the phone booth one afternoon, and the phone rings. The same artificial voice from Scream tells him, “Isn’t it funny? You hear a ringing phone and it could be anyone. But a ringing phone begs to be answered.” But unlike Scream, this voice doesn’t chill the bone. It tickles the funny bone...
...kickboxing moves, push ups and Russian jumps. Fitness rehearsals were the worst part of the weeks leading up to the telecast. Though my abs were burning, the muscles I worked hardest were in my face—if you stopped smiling for a nanosecond the kindly Southern volunteers would scream out, “SMIIIIIIIILE, Maryland! The judges like girls who look happy...
...Weighing just 110 pounds on a 5-foot-6 frame, with both of her arms broken and a bullet in her back, she couldn't fight. If she bit her assailant, she worried he'd hit her and break even more bones. She vowed not to scream, but every time he knocked her broken arms, she couldn't stop a scream of pain. Her main worry wasn't rape, she says, but rather that the shackled Dunlap might get himself shot trying to defend her. "Other than that, it didn't make a big impression on me," she says, shrugging...
Kasdan has been a serious filmmaker, so he gives the goofiness a smart look and some pertinent metaphors about Americans wrongfully detained. But the aim is no higher than the impulse of old schlockmeisters like Roger Corman and Ed Wood: to get the audience to scream. --By Richard Corliss