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...honest, that hope began to darken as I thumbed through the production notes prior to a screening of Get Smart. Many persons involved with the movie prattled on about their swell new action sequences "worthy of any thriller" with their up-to-date "scale and scope." Scale? Scope? Are they kidding? Here's the deal, guys: action sequences are not funny. They never have been and they never will be. For they require that their protagonist set aside his bumbling physical incompetence and start acting decisively and heroically. At which point our connection with him is broken and he becomes...
...Winston's most notable contemporary has been Rick Baker. Born in 1950, he rose to prominence with director John Landis, lending his antic artistry to that lycanthropic masterpiece An American Werewolf in London, to Michael Jackson's moonwalking zombie in the Thriller video and to just about any movie where Eddie Murphy looks like someone else: a Caucasian alterkocker in Coming to America, a morbidly obese mama in Norbit and, of course, all of the Klumps...
What did Capote do that nobody else could? In The Monster of Florence (Grand Central; 322 pages), thriller author Douglas Preston (writing with the Italian journalist Mario Spezi) tells the story of a serial killer who terrorized Florence in the 1970s and 1980s. The Monster, as he (or she or they) is known, stalked couples making love in parked cars in the hills outside the city, which is something Florentines apparently do quite a lot. He would wait till they were finished, then shoot the man in the head, then the woman. Afterward, he would mutilate...
...season, but we didn’t achieve that goal, and that was pretty disappointing.” On March 1, everything was going right for Harvard. The Crimson honored its three seniors—Hallion, co-captain Jessica Knox, and Adrian Budischak—with a 51-48 thriller over Cornell that broke the tie between the two teams at the top of the Ancient Eight standings. A loud and proud Lavietes Pavilion crowd chanted “Ivy champs!” as the team moved into the league driver’s seat: with wins...
...against the Eagles earlier in the season, Harvard went toe-to-toe with the eventual NCAA champions, rallying from two goals down with nine minutes to go in the final period to force overtime. Taylor scored two of the team’s five goals in the thriller, including the game-tying goal at 15:36 in the third period. Though BC managed to capture the Beanpot Championship with an overtime goal, Harvard’s performance against the Eagles was proof that the Crimson was capable of going head to head with the best teams in the country...