Word: stephen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...examination of the characters involved; 26 Bathrooms, a tongue-in-cheek tour of lavish and eccentric British lavatories, is the sort of loopy project one could never imagine on American TV. Though much of Channel 4's comedy does not travel well, Consuela, a 40-min. film directed by Stephen Frears (My Beautiful Laundrette), is a neat, funny parody of Hitchcock's Rebecca and half a dozen other psychological horror films...
...Lauren story was a change of pace for Staff Writer Stephen Koepp, whose previous cover articles were on banking and the collapsing price of oil. A Wisconsin native, Koepp professes to be interested more in journalistic than in sartorial brilliance. Says he: "When I lived in the Midwest, I bought my clothes at Sears, but I did buy a Lauren shirt five years ago at a factory outlet in Connecticut. Only now is the shirt beginning to fray." Perhaps this exposure to current fashion will tempt him to consider replacing it before too many more years...
Watch out, America, full moon's coming. That's when a wily psychopath -- a werewolf of modern paranoid fantasies -- turns some idyllic suburban home into a slaughterhouse. And when anyone wanders too close, the psycho (Tom Noonan) festers into action. A tabloid journalist (Stephen Lang) ends up flambeed in a runaway wheelchair. A photo-lab technician (Joan Allen), whose blindness has not inhibited her taste for sexual adventure, invites the psycho home and is soon in mortal peril. His only nemesis is Will Graham (William L. Petersen), an ex-FBI agent who uses a kind of Method forensics to identify...
Washington's grandees, sensing the approach of civil war, had one last fling in 1859, and it was in the Willard. Among the 1,800 guests: Sam Houston, Jefferson Davis, Stephen Douglas, William Seward. They raised glass after sparkling glass of champagne as the night -- and peace -- ebbed. It was claimed that this was the last time North and South met on friendly ground. On the day Jefferson Davis was sworn in as President of the Confederacy, delegates from 21 of the 34 states gathered quietly in Willard Hall to try to avert disaster. They failed...
Ever since the heyday of horror fiction, when Henry James and Edith Wharton tried their hands at the supernatural, aficionados have been awaiting a writer to transcend the genre and give it a new legitimacy. Clive Barker may be the man. He is as morbid as Stephen King, but unlike his American counterpart, this 33-year-old writer from Liverpool is witty, unpredictable and concise. In these five tales, an aphrodisiac turns the world into a monkey house; a vagrant with a mass of knotted material seems to be playing with nothing less than DNA; a palace is built...