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...Cafe is hog heaven for the customer who climbs into the saddle of a Low Rider against a make-believe open road while a video camera records the moment of sublime fantasy. And if spooky things grab you, Jekyll and Hyde, a house of horrors, is the place to thrill...
Director Emmerich gives the movie the solid, confident feel of a good adventure, using his locations to the full, idiosyncratic thrill-value of each. These lead to striking shots of a desert near a military base and several confused urban crowd scenes. In the beginning of other sequences, the screen bursts into white, as July 4th draws nigh. The story, written by director Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin, has a handy way of faithfully returning to the bits of exposition and information dropped along the way. The drunken pilot (Randy Quaid) whom we see being teased early...
...music, sports and the occasional theme park. He keeps an open mind on alien autopsies and abductions. His wife Mary, though, is a believer in editorial abductions, especially on those late nights when Corliss is in his TIME office, staring at a blank computer screen with that familiar dreadful thrill...
Several former colleagues believe that Livingstone must have noticed the list was somehow faulty--he had been in politics for a decade, after all--but that he continued to let the files come in because he enjoyed the covert thrill of it all. "I think he made a stupid mistake that mushroomed far beyond what he could have imagined," says a friend. Livingstone's lawyers deny that he was running any kind of freelance operation. He was so busy trying to process background checks on Clinton staff members, they say, that he never had time to pay attention...
...authors are being celebrated with Broadway revivals of Pulitzer-prizewinning works from their most fertile periods. The two plays, which picked up 12 Tony nominations between them last week, remind us that old-fashioned stage virtues--originality of voice, depth of feeling, richness of language--can still provide a thrill...