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...dugouts or hack a campsite out of the thick vegetation on the riverbanks, they were attacked by stinging, biting, disease-carrying insects. Nearly all the men, including Kermit and Roosevelt, fell prey to the suffocating fevers and bone-grinding chills of malaria. The jungle was also home to poisonous snakes. One night a coral snake slithered from under a fallen tree and sank its fangs into Roosevelt's foot. But for his thick leather boots, he would have died an agonizing death...
...about the celebrity Wall Street analyst she wants him to track down--not because she misses the creep but because she and her lesbian lover need his child-support checks. The case leads March, a former sheriff's investigator with a dead wife and a shadowy past, into a snake pit of betrayal and double dealing--the paranoid underside of the dotcom boom. Spiegelman worked in financial services and software for more than 20 years before taking up fiction. He knows how thin the air is in New York City's office towers and what breathing too much...
From the moment parents absorb the shock that their child may be autistic, they enter a dizzying world of specialists, therapists and, alas, purveyors of snake oil. Getting the right help quickly is paramount, but it is hard to make good decisions when you are in a panic or fighting despair...
...shooting continued, though, the Internet became clogged with Snakes stuff. Thousands of people were blogging, hawking T shirts and posters, composing original songs ("There has got to be much more to it/ This can't be a movie; no, it's too damn stupid/ Snakes on a Plane!") and posting exquisite fake trailers based solely on the title. The trailers, in particular, began to sketch out fans' expectations for the film. Some were mocking, but the box office doesn't discriminate between money spent ironically and earnestly, and New Line decided to ride the wave rather than be crushed...
...were talking about the snake hits being better than just seeing a snake strike. In old cowboy movies you'd see a rattlesnake, hear a rattle and then there's the snake and it kind of struck off-screen, and you never saw the snake actually hit anybody. So you get actual snake hits, and if you got two people who are making love in an airplane bathroom, you just don't show a snake and show them kissing and hear them screaming. You know, girl's got her tit out, let the snake hit it! That's what people...