Word: thriller
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...with language but also with everything else we do. The books you own, the way you decorate your house, whether you wear a tie or not are all signs of something else," he explains. "That's semiotics in a nutshell." His earlier novels neatly adapt this philosophy to the thriller format - Rose, for example, is a medieval whodunit set in a monastery, Foucault's Pendulum a conspiracy of sects and secret societies. The new storyline plunges the author into a forensic examination of nostalgia. "By definition, the word nostalgia is the desire to return, to return to childhood or your...
Like her other novels, Devil's Corner is a fast-paced thriller featuring a female lawyer with an ample supply of attitude. Vicki Allegretti, a U.S. Attorney, teams up with Reheema Bristow, a glamorous African-American woman who has been wrongly accused of a crime, to expose an ever widening conspiracy of cocaine dealing and violence. Added to the mix is some hanky-panky between Vicki and a senior attorney in her office...
...Finally, there were the big upcoming specials: besides the Winter Olympics, there's a remake of The Poseidon Adventure, a sequel to earthquake thriller 10.5 and an eight-hour miniseries about 9/11...
...girl? "When the time is right, it will come," he says. "You know, intimacy on screen is awkward. I think sex is the one thing you cannot successfully portray on camera." Instead, Mos's next role is as an autistic man opposite Bruce Willis in the action thriller 16 Blocks. But don't ask him to talk too much about himself to sell it. "I just don't think it's very dignified to ask people to like you," he says. "You can just wind up being somebody's ottoman." An ottoman? You mean, like a footstool? "Ottoman just sounds...
...indie-minded director on a big project--as long as it has been done before. Sony Pictures hit it big pairing Spider-Man with Sam Raimi and then hit the fan when it mated The Hulk with Ang Lee. Now Christopher Nolan, best known for his twisty art thriller Memento, gets a shot with Batman Begins. He says all he borrowed from the franchise was Batman himself, and even this Batman will be a mystery to fans. "I saw a small gap in pop-culture movie history," Nolan says, "the film where Batman explains his origin, the definitive account...