Word: serial
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...stands for “Business” in Jeffrey Cruikshank’s murder mystery debut Murder at the B-School. And the serial murderer on the loose in this tale of deception, corruption, and elitism truly means business...
ARRESTED. DENNIS RADER, 59, a city worker suspected of being the BTK serial killer, linked to at least eight murders in the Wichita area in the 1970s and '80s; in Park City, Kans. The killer, who bragged of his crimes in letters to Wichita media in the late '70s and suggested his nickname (the initials stand for "bind, torture, kill"), had not been heard from for 25 years when he resurfaced last March with a letter to the Wichita Eagle, taking responsibility for a 1986 killing...
...people saw him as just a rogue cop. But he's a rogue cop who's just lost his wife. He's sort of a sad guy, and he's equally saddened and angered by the bureaucratic nightmare he's dwelling in while trying to apprehend a sadistic, psychopathic serial killer. If you showed him as a happy-go-lucky guy with no problems at all, you'd have no emotional excitement in the picture...
...ratings failure. Maybe, in the autumn of O.J. Simpson's acquittal, it was hard to sell a celebrity murder story in which the high-priced defense team, headed by no-nonsense Ted Hoffman (Daniel Benzali), was more sympathetic than police and prosecutors. Maybe audiences weren't ready for a serial format. But One is made for the DVD era: watching the 23 "chapters" consecutively, you can better appreciate both the potboiler plot and the performance by alternate suspect Stanley Tucci. Think of it as practice for the Michael Jackson trial. --By James Poniewozik...
...Robert Schwentke is making Flightplan, a transatlantic hijack thriller starring Jodie Foster. And Eichinger has teamed with fellow German Tom Tykwer, director of the international hit, Run Lola Run, to make Perfume, based on the award-winning novel by German author Patrick Süskind, about an 18th century serial killer who tries to mask the stench of decadent French society with fragrances distilled from his victims' bodies (Dustin Hoffman and Alan Rickman are tipped to star). As Hollywood reinvigorates its product with injections of European culture, Tykwer's compatriots are relaxing and becoming more catholic in their approach...