Word: thrillers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kassar lavishes cash on behind-the-scenes talent as well. He paid a record $3 million last June for writer Joe Eszterhas' thriller Basic Instinct. "It's not just the money," says Michael Douglas, whom Kassar is reportedly paying more than $10 million to star in and produce Instinct. "When you visit the head of a major studio, it feels like you're going to the principal's office. With Mario, you're with one of the guys." Kassar says his motto is simple: "I try and gain their trust...
...presidency and his life allow Puzo to pull out all the stops. Philosophical dialogues about the nature of power, byzantine schemes and even elements of science fiction find their way into the mix. Amazingly, it works. Puzo's inventions may read like a parody of a best-selling thriller, but his characters give off sparks of intelligence and complexity. If some of the principals seem to belong to the Hollywood power structure rather than to the Washington elite, it is undoubtedly because the author knows the entertainment mob far better than the godfathers of government...
Well, it might at least give us our spy entertainments back. Under Cover, the latest effort from China Beach creators William Broyles Jr. and John Sacret Young, updates the cold-war thriller by turning it into a sort of globe-trotting thirtysomething. When these sensitive agents aren't having moralistic arguments over who should or shouldn't be sent on a dangerous assignment, they are worrying about who's minding the kids. Anthony Denison (Crime Story) and Linda Purl are agreeable enough as the spy couple, but the romance founders on dialogue like "You know, I didn't realize...
Misery In this Stephen King thriller, James Caan is a romance writer rescued from an accident and held captive while he recuperates. Kathy Bates is his nurse and "biggest fan" -- alternately giddy and menacing in a great turn. Rob Reiner proves himself a director of Hitchcockian wit and wiliness...
...suggests an hour or so of big bad Arnold coping comically with snotty tykes. Oh, young performers from the Professional School for Kute Kids do get to recite part of the Gettysburg Address and, of course, say penis and vagina. But mostly Cop is a police procedural, a hostage thriller, a no-brain suspenser and a vengeful- mother drama. It adds up to the sternest test yet for Arnold's box-office clout -- and for the patience of his millions of fans...