Word: thrillers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...good thriller builds in excitement all the way through and, when it has reached its pinnacle, releases all of the agitation and worry in a climax which has the audience drawing sharp breaths and watching through their fingers. "Just Cause" is painfully close to that, but falls just short. It is not original enough, and the film-makers seem not to care enough to take the time required. To Harris, Fishburne and us as the audience, that is utterly un-Just...
What is the play (no musicals, thank you) with the longest consecutive run in American theater history? Why, it's Shear Madness, a comedy thriller that encourages the audience to help solve the mystery. On Jan. 31, at the Charles Playhouse in Boston, the show celebrated its 15th anniversary with its 6,273rd performance, nearly twice as many as the Broadway non-musical champ, Life with Father. And the second longest runner? Shear Madness in Chicago (12 years, 4 months). The Washington production of Shear Madness is another hardy perennial; it has been at the Kennedy Center since...
...spite of the delicate treatment of the dark side of life, Original Sin is less murky in tone than earlier novels, and as a result, the heavy ending seems a little out of place. What is essentially a mystery acquires a thriller denouement, and Daniel Aaron's awkward character must carry the weight of it. Equally ungainly are a few of the bows to contemporary issues, which James usually handles so well. But this will only become faintly evident after the first shock of the novel's punch fades away. The value of James' efforts on the Pure Novel Scale...
...other two films that I've written are about growing up in Providence. One is a kick-boxing story about two brothers that I knew growing up. The other is sort of a political thriller that deals with the banking crisis that took place in Rhode Island. Any one of this could stir up a lot of shit in Rhode Island--and will. As if this didn...
...under the name of his second wife Florence. Seymour-Smith can't quite acknowledge how characteristically -- and fascinatingly -- underhanded this step was. Things turned still more devious when Florence, after Hardy's death, reworked some passages to make his first wife Emma look more guileful and sly. What spy thriller could possibly top this for intricate ironies? Florence actually opened herself up to accusations of dishonesty for expressing her own opinions in a book published under her own name...