Word: thrillers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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TEDDY ROOSEVELT'S DAUGHTER ALICE used to say that her father longed to be the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral. In SOLITARY CONFINEMENT, a thriller that opened on Broadway last week, actor Stacy Keach achieves something akin to T.R.'s dream. Without spoiling the "surprises" in a lumpishly predictable plot, one can reveal that Keach does not disappear when the reclusive billionaire he plays is shot and dumped into one of Harry Houdini's escape boxes before the first-act curtain. Keach acts with brio and glee, but as ever with author Rupert Holmes...
BOOKS Red Square is a thriller that stirs the imagination...
...Russian detective of Gorky Park and Polar Star, touches the imagination in a powerful, brooding way that seems very Russian. Give or take Richard Price's Clockers, a story of New Jersey cops and dope sellers that has some of the same strengths, it may be the best thriller to appear in several years. But Edmund Wilson's contemptuous dismissal of detective stories still lashes: Is it feebleminded to care who killed Roger Ackroyd...
...music is extraordinary, and never mind the libretto. Or if that's too flossy, say that the story's texture, the dark background against which Arkady moves and about which he shrugs and thinks his wry thoughts, is real in a way that seems bitterly true. Clearly the thriller form, with no artistic expectations whatsoever, can free the best writers to produce superb stuff. Quite casually, between car chases and dead bodies, Martin Cruz Smith has drawn stinging portraits in caricature of three cities under attack by the future...
Leguizamo, 28, comes from the streets. Born in Bogota and raised in New York City, he prides himself on mixing quick wit and acute perception with the cadences and carriage of a tenement tough. After a string of movies, including the forthcoming big-budget fantasy thriller Super Mario Brothers (from which, he claims, he was "almost fired for coming across too Hispanic"), he is back onstage thumbing his nose both at bourgeois ethnic critics and at what he sees as pervasive racism in the mainstream with the defiantly titled Spic-O-Rama...