Word: steven
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Second-unit ingenuity spurs a destructo-fest, as naughty tornados send cars crashing and rip the roofs off barns. One suspects that, as a movie monster, this killer twister may be a dud: it has no personality and can't sneak up on you. But with the heft of Steven Spielberg, Michael Crichton and Jan de Bont (Speed) behind it, Twister could suck hot air and still gross a quick $100 million...
Last Dance (written by Ron Koslow and Steven Haft) is also akin to Dead Man Walking, with Stone as the grizzled con and Rob Morrow in the Sister Helen Prejean role. Cindy Liggett has spent 12 years on death row for a double murder she committed while on drugs; hope, for her, is the one hallucinogen not worth tasting. But Rick Hayes, a lawyer from the state clemency board, becomes convinced that her case has merit--and falls a little in love with her. Why not? This wretched killer is, after all, Sharon Stone...
...even better. The American Urological Association analyzed all the available data on radiation and surgery and concluded "there was no clear-cut evidence for the superiority of any one treatment." Please set the record straight on the success of radiation as an important treatment option for prostate-cancer patients. STEVEN A. LEIBEL, M.D., President WILLIAM U. SHIPLEY, M.D, Member of the Board American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology Reston, Virginia...
...Steven A. Engel's column appears on alternate Wednesdays...
...movie mixes grunge and glitter in the way of a Steven Bochco TV show, which is understandable, since director Gregory Hoblit has won a bunch of Emmys for his work on Hill Street Blues and L.A. Law. The script, by Steve Shagan and Ann Biderman, also partakes of Bochco's strengths and limitations--good dialogue, firmly etched secondary characters (nicely played by John Mahoney and Frances McDormand, among others) but not much suspense. The only potentially scary guy--Edward Norton's weirdo defendant--is safely behind bars most of the time. Diverting without being fully absorbing, this is a film...