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This one came in with a funny smell: the perfume of illicit passion, domestic upheaval and smoldering guilt. (O.K., forget that last bit; we're in the postguilt age, at least in Hollywood and Washington.) Proof of Life, a romantic thriller with Meg Ryan and Russell Crowe, is coming out in the wake of the two stars' affair and the fracturing of Ryan's marriage to Dennis Quaid. The all-American blond is now a Jezebel, her cuddlings with Crowe sprayed across gossip-mag covers and on tabloid-tale TV shows. The eventual film looked destined to be remembered...
...heart of this puzzling thriller are Russell Crowe and Meg Ryan, whose off-camera romantic shenanigans made the picture notorious months before it hit theaters. Those expecting to the two leads to scorch the screen, however, will be shocked and perhaps even bitterly disappointed to see just how little sexual tension develops between the two stars. Curiously, Proof of Life is not structured as a romance-the greatest shortcoming of the screenplay is its failure to develop Thorne's central conflict, in which a man who's always in control finds that what he has to do has become almost...
...Techno-thriller writer Ben Mezrich '91 spoke yesterday in Dudley House about how he broke into the publishing industry...
...kind of masturbation," Mezrich said. "Let's say you could write a great literary masterpiece. You should be able to write a great thriller, too, and get published that...
...side of and nearly under a speeding ambulance (In the Line of Duty 4); and at the end of a Yuen movie, nearly anyone is likely to catch on fire. Yuen revels in the Hong Kong rule: these are moving pictures. In one Yuen thriller, a policewoman somersaults through a suspect's window. Why? Because...