Word: slashers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bard's earliest dramatic efforts, it's also his bloodiest and most sensational--murder, rape and bodily dismemberments abound, with some cannibalism thrown in for good measure. Director Jose Zayas' approach, however, makes a creative if somewhat over-zealous attempt to move the play out of slasher-film territory into a combination of comic irony and the spookily surreal...
...State Department's bureau of diplomatic security has turned to a curious spokesman in its attempt to stop worldwide terrorism. Besides placing macabre, slasher-movie-style newspaper ads in the International Herald Tribune offering up to $2 million for information about assaults on American citizens abroad, the State Department has enlisted none other than bad-boy actor CHARLIE SHEEN to lend encouragement in a series of public-service ads at its www.heroes.net Website. "Are you the next hero?" asks Sheen, whose unheroic scrapes with the law have included serving as a prosecution witness in the HEIDI FLEISS tax-evasion case...
...Dawson. Really slow weekend? Try Tommy Lee Jones and Faye Dunaway in 1978's "The Eyes of Laura Mars," about the terror stalking of a high-fashion photographer, or scour the classics shelves for the 1948 Dragnet precursor "He Walks By Night," with Richard Basehart as the debonair slasher. Beltway addicts, of course, will want to skip right to "Julius Caesar." Just make sure it's the 1953 version, with Brando as the Emperor Newt...
William P. Homans Jr. '41, the well-known Boston civil rights attorney who last year defended the so-called Widener Library "slasher," died of various ailments Feb. 7 at a nursing home in Phoenix...
Womack, a former Widener employee who was nicknamed the "slasher," was convicted last February in Middlesex Superior Court on two of seven charges...