Word: twister
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Buzz Some wonder if director Jan De Bont, of Twister and Speed fame, will place The Haunting in the same thrilling and fast-paced category as his other successes. There was something to be said for the slow, chilling movement of the original movie, but perhaps a faster and more terrifying tour through the new and improved Hill House will give this movie its own modern ability to haunt...
That may change. After an early career that mixed such successes as Islands in the Net (1988) with several quickly remaindered efforts, Sterling hit his stride with Heavy Weather (1994), a novel about tornado freaks published two years pre-Twister, and Holy Fire (1996), a haunting meditation on life-extension technology...
...drummer-boy of the Duke and Duchess and cares nothing for her predestined husband. The operetta is spent unraveling all this insanity and making sure everyone ends up happily with the person they truly love, as conveyed by various "patter" songs--bouncy, often silly songs with rapid-fire tongue-twister limerics...
...people who witnessed the show could argue with the fact that the numbers from When I Woke, Rusted Root's first LP, brought out more joy and enthusiasm than anything else that night. "Virtual Reality," from the album Remember and the soundtrack to the movie Twister, got the crowd moving as the first song of the evening, but the slower, funkier rhythms of "Cat Turned Blue" from When I Woke elicited a lot more screams of approval and subsequent groovings. "Laugh as the Sun," the deliciously hypnotic song that followed, proved a little too intense to dance to, but that...
MIKE NELSON, host, Mystery Science Theatre 3000: "Twister [1996; 6], in large measure because it's got Bill Paxton...