Word: thrillers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Then BLAM!, the Wild Bunch hit town. On the festival's final Saturday, John Travolta, Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman and other performers from the American thriller Pulp Fiction brought some big-time, macho-and- mayhem, Uzi-in-your-gut star quality to Cannes. Quentin Tarantino, who made the sanguinary Reservoir Dogs, wrote the script and directed the film at a hurtling pace, displaying a steely assurance in his storytelling and a gift for placing scary violence at unexpected moments. When the film was shown, it was as if Tarantino were telling Cannes, "O.K., nap time is over...
Books: The Alienist is an exceptional thriller; Janet Malcolm mines the Plath myth; Louis Begley's As Max Saw It is perfectly constructed...
Caleb Carr's shrewd and amiable entertainment The Alienist (Random House; 496 pages; $22) is a good psychological thriller, but what makes it exceptional is that it is also a remarkable time-machine voyage. Carr sets us down in New York City -- yes, there's the American Museum of Natural History right where it belongs, at 79th and Central Park West -- but the date is 1896, a year poised more delicately than most between past and future. Horses still pull cabs, but telephones are fairly common. New York is still a rowdy port city, but finance has replaced shipping...
Most rare-metals traders, however, abandon any pretense of legitimacy and begin to act more like characters in a Hollywood thriller. Buyers, accompanied by bodyguards carrying suitcases of cash and by their own scientific experts for testing the goods, fill hotels in Baltic ports, where Russian smugglers congregate. The sellers are most likely to be mafia-connected hustlers or former KGB agents -- some of whom have even set up joint ventures with former CIA agents to smuggle strategic materials. The trade is so brisk that Estonia has emerged as one of the world's leading exporters of rare metals, even...
EVERY SPORTING EVENT IS a suspense thriller. No one knows who will win, unless it's the Super Bowl and the Bills are in it. But when Hollywood plays the big game, nice guys always finish first. The Cleveland Indians will take the American League pennant -- not on the field this year, perhaps, but in Major League II. A ragtag rainbow coalition of teens will win a junior hockey championship in D2 The Mighty Ducks. Whether the game is big-time baseball (Rookie of the Year, Mr. Baseball) or college football (The Program, Rudy), basketball on the campus (Blue Chips...