Word: sutherland
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...take the actor out of the movies, but you can't take the movies out of the actor. So when I ask Kiefer Sutherland how long his TV drama, 24, can keep its edge, he reaches to the pictures for an analogy. "I thought Die Hard worked, and I thought Die Hard 2 worked," he says carefully. "And I think they should have stopped it there...
...Sutherland's worries are a reflection of the high bar the show set last year. It chronicled "the longest day" in the life of counterterrorist agent Jack Bauer (Sutherland)--24 hours in which he had to foil the assassination of a presidential candidate while also trying to save his own wife and daughter from kidnappers. The show combined popcorn-movie thrills with a complicated and innovative narrative (each episode was one hour in real time). And it confounded expectations right up to the end, when Bauer, after saving his daughter and the candidate, found his pregnant wife shot to death...
...Hollywood casualty of the sniper shootings in the Washington area could be 20th Century Fox's thriller Phone Booth. Directed by Joel Schumacher and scheduled for a Nov. 15 release, it's about a man (Colin Farrell) pinned down in a telephone booth under fire from a sniper (Kiefer Sutherland). The film's zippy trailer was greeted enthusiastically when it began running in theaters weeks ago, says screenwriter Larry Cohen. But the reaction was much different last week: "There was a chill and fear," he says. Fox execs are now mulling whether to delay the movie's release. Cohen...
...Ever the point woman of this particular mission, Sprow is on her cell phone to Seyfarth at midnight and gets the word that the famed Pfoho dance party may end shortly. Sprow is cool like Kiefer Sutherland under the pressure and makes the executive (and wise) decision to remain at the river. As the dreaded 1 a.m. deadline approaches, the girls make a final and brief Hail Mary of a stop at nearby Eliot to check out some football beef before Penny-packing it in for the night...
...These are all reasons to be happy - and there were plenty more. Kiefer Sutherland ("24") and Jennifer Garner ("Alias") got deserved nominations for showing us that acting does make a difference, even in action thrillers. (If you ever read a "24" script and then watch what Kiefer's stone-cold-sumbitch performance does for its workmanlike thriller dialogue - "Trust me on this one, Nina!" etc. - you will be ready to give him not just an Emmy but a Nobel...