Word: thriller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course, it is easy to exaggerate the significance of Reid's book. It is, at bottom, precisely what Reid meant it to be--a fast paced, mildly entertaining, enjoyable if not particularly penetrating thriller. On that level, it succeeds, if only because it is fun. On the level of social statement, as an analysis of a shift in basic cultural attitudes, Reid's own short-sightedness has sadly dictated that the book could not possibly succeed. But--like so much of Irish history--it is certainly an intriguing failure...
Cold feet: this weekend is the last chance to catch Deathtrap, Ira Levin's new comedy suspense thriller, before it heads for New York. Tonight through Saturday at 8, Saturday at 2, at the Wilbur Theatre...
Nevertheless, the single source of dramatic energy in this crude thriller is Crichton's exploitation of the audience's rational and irrational fear of doctors and hospitals - the always reliable "Let me out of here!" reaction as the anesthesiologist's gas mask clamps down over the face, and the familiar "Yuck" effect as the surgeon's bloody hands dip into the body cavity. This is arrogant moviemaking: its assumption is that the proles will buy their tickets and march unprotestingly through the fun house no matter how evident is the contemptuousness of the barkers...
...wrong to say that the scripts are no longer being written for women," says Actress Catherine Deneuve, who is all fired up about her new role in the French thriller Listen Here. She plays a Bogart-like private eye who has gun, will travel. Her employer: a mysterious baron who has developed radio waves that can paralyze a whole town. Deneuve learned from the French flics how to shoot a revolver. She took to it quickly. Says she: "It's as exciting as a road show...
Number two--John Havens vs. Frank Brosens: Havens, in a word, has been awesome against Princeton. As a freshman two years ago, he pulled the upset of the year by taking a five-game thriller from Princeton's undefeated captain at number two; last year, he fought off a vicious crowd and a tough opponent in Bill Fisher to win in four games at number three...