Word: underworldly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...former narcotics policewoman who got hooked on drugs and became an armed robber. In this fictive treatment, the protagonist is called Kristen Cates, but all resemblances to the author are strictly intentional. The upright Texas girl gets hooked in order to trap a dealer, backslides into the nightmare underworld of pushers and addicts, and finally surfaces in another kind of purgatory: jail. Rush (Random House; 260 pages; $18.95), Wozencraft's tale of temptation, fall and rehab, sometimes gropes for expression, as if the recollections were too painful for words. In every sense, this should make one hell of a film...
...film's Mars is Earth's cracked mirror image: a domed underworld of freak psychics and three-breasted prostitutes, ruled by a tyrant from whom the colonists must buy air, and he has just jacked up the price. It is on Mars, toward the end, that Total Recall slows down to tie up its plot and provide each villain with an appropriately gruesome demise. It goes wussily misterioso when Quaid meets a Yodaesque guru. But even when the film flirts with becoming ordinary, it is propelled by the stolid charm of Schwarzenegger, who carries the whole movie as easily...
Crime Story (NBC, 1986-88). Producer Michael Mann brought a flashy film-noir style to TV in Miami Vice, then perfected it in this brooding, operatic underworld drama. And Anthony Denison, as gangster Ray Luca, created the TV villain who, along with J.R. Ewing, loomed as the decade's most memorable...