Word: screens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...well, Fred Thompson. He got his Hollywood break literally playing himself in Marie, the movie version of a celebrated case he had handled as a trial lawyer, laying bare the clemency-selling scandal that landed a Tennessee Governor in prison. And he had already been a Senator on the screen by the time Tennessee voters got around to electing...
...realizing his deliriously original idea, Allen occasionally stumbles. Some of his transitions are abrupt, some of his jokes predictable. And after nearly three decades, it may be time to revise or retire his screen character. He's too old to keep playing a perpetually muddled romantic victim. But he wears his ambition winningly and, as a filmmaker, achieves a transcendence of his own, making something fresh and beguiling out of that middle-class, middlebrow angst he has so often explored...
Michael Crichton's new novel, Airframe (Alfred A. Knopf; 351 pages; $26), is so camera ready, it might be poured directly onto the screen. That quality gives the book immediacy, but don't give the credit to Crichton's literary skill. He simply sketches in the familiar elements--a determined, divorced heroine; techno-speak; footsteps in the dark--and the reader, conditioned by the scores of suspense films he has seen, reflexively provides the art direction, special effects and stars (say Jodie Foster and perhaps Courteney Cox in a surprisingly strong Best Supporting Actress-nominated performance...
Hussain said he was impressed with the set, which features The All-Mighty brain, an eight-foot sphere of palpitating grey matter with a video screen conveniently located in its frontal lobe...
...Simpson's life and times with Nicole, he hammered away at their tempestuous relationship--one that resulted in calls to police and a no-contest plea to spousal battery in 1989. With an enormous blow-up of Nicole's face, cut and purpled with bruises, looming on a huge screen behind the former football star, the lawyer quizzed him about numerous other incidents in which witnesses say Nicole was hit by her husband. And Petrocelli walked Simpson through some landmarks on his former wife's bashed-in face: a split lip, a welt over her eye and red marks around...