Word: wan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...glamorously seedy plot of David Ramus' new thriller, Thief of Light (HarperCollins; 291 pages; $23), that has the publishing world abuzz. It is the eerie similarity between the fictional story and that of the author. Ramus, a wan Alec Baldwin look-alike, is a first-time novelist with a potential best seller in his future, and also a possible prison sentence. Like his protagonist, in the '80s he was an art dealer with a fondness for heroin. By the '90s he had overcome his drug problems, but questionable business dealings left him with a $4 million debt and allegations...
...office, movie executives don't get as sick of it as ordinary people do. Which may explain why Paramount paid more than $1 million for the rights to WINSTON GROOM'S new book, Gump & Co., despite the fact that Tom Hanks and Robert Zemeckis have expressed but wan interest in taking part in a Gump sequel. The book, in stores in August, follows the life of Gump and son after 1980. While Groom insists the recent fracas over his lack of royalties from the original Gump film was a "misunderstanding," this time he'll get his cut before expenses...
...produced by Ryan), which achieves a level of agreeable inanity only after a grating first hour or so. As a jilted fianca who hooks up with a Gallic jewel thief (Kevin Kline), Ryan cedes all the charm to Kline while remaining the center of attraction. Even in this wan caper, though, she is bold in her playing of an insecure woman who is so intense she seems dense. Her clear blue eyes widen in a perpetual double take at a world that loves to play practical jokes on her. Before surrendering to romance in the final reel, she cranks...
...fact that I'd already joined the union of movie theater employees and was well on my way to winning employee of the month, I said goodbye to Gina and Whoopi and flew to Geneva. And while my two weeks at the cinema may not have been Paradiso, it wan't a half-bad Purgatorio, with real butter...
...fair to the school or to Gina,because you don't wan a media frenzy at the otherschools," Dickson said