Word: thrillers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fail. The Fugitive, The Rock, The Long Kiss Goodnight satisfy the dramatic unities while kicking beaucoup butt. And sometimes a gifted director can go beyond the conventional pleasures. With Face/Off, John Woo, the Hong Kong auteur (The Killer, Hard Boiled), has made his smartest, wildest, positively Woo-siest American thriller. Working from a vigorous script by Mike Werb and Michael Colleary, Woo weaves his familiar touches--the slo-mo, the gleaming candles, the long coats flying in the breeze, the doves flying in a chapel as an omen of death--around the central fantasy of male bonding gone berserk...
...thriller about a mutiny of convicted murderers aboard a transport plane, Nicolas Cage plays Cameron Poe, a bad-luck good guy on his way home from serving eight years in San Quentin on a bum rap. Cage's body is buffed enough for a macho role, but the Academy Award-winning actor seems a stretch as an action star. With his stubbly beard and stringy hair, he looks like either Jesus with a grudge or the guy who stares at kids from the other side of a schoolyard fence. Then, an hour into the film, Poe finds a villain rifling...
...then the ride took a nice turn, as the Crimson won 11 of its next 12 games. The highlight of that stretch was an 11-inning thriller which Harvard stole from Holy Cross...
...scare early on saw sophomore Ivy Wang fall in a three-set thriller (2-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5) to Bali Camino and Rosemary She--in the No. 2 singles position--lose to Dominique Glinzer, 7-5, 6-2. Gina Majmudar also fell victim to the Alabama attack, leaving the fate of both the match and the Crimson season in the hands in the final two singles spots...
Jones produced hundreds of records for Mercury, but gained global acclaim for his production of "We Are the World," the best-selling single of all-time, and Michael Jackson's Thriller, the best-selling album of all-time...