Word: thrillers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY. A suave beast (Patrick Bergin) tracks down his abused wife (Julia Roberts) after she has faked her death and escaped his clutches. A good idea for a feminist thriller soon degenerates, under Joseph Ruben's direction, into a wheezy lady-in-distress melodrama. Paging Barbara Stanwyck...
...this for action-packed cinematic adventure? Scene: the Los Angeles set of MGM-Pathe's comedy-thriller Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man. It's the final phase of shooting, and volatile screen star Mickey Rourke has had enough. "Screw this!" he blurts out. "If I'm not going to get paid, then I'm not going to work!" Members of the film's production crew threaten their own wildcat strike five days later if they aren't paid. The panicked studio rushes paychecks to the set -- by messenger...
...Crimson caravan rolls into New Haven tonight, where Harvard faces the Yale team that began the Crimson's Briggs skid. The Elis (11-11, 5-5) walked out of Briggs with a 98-91 double-overtime thriller two weeks...
...went for naught when--moments before Shyjan/Mike Zimmerman were to tie the match with a three-set thriller--the Dawgs' Ivan Baron/Patricio Arnold beat Marshall Burroughs/John Tolmie to clinch the match...
Only freshman eighth-seed Heather Sullivan, substituting at the last minute for Cunningham, played the game with the flare and tenacity for which the racquetwomen are noted. Sullivan upset Tiger sixth-seed Elizabeth Van Orman in a four-game thriller. After she lost the first game, Sullivan caught on to Van Orman's front-court game, moved as if her feet were on fire, and carried the next three games...