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...high-strung." No more so than the script, by Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Epperson; it is given to violent outbursts amid its sullen patches, and plot twists that don't strain plausibility so much as ignore it. By the end, the movie has gone goofily gothic - more Wes Craven than Truman Capote - and you may be convinced that director Raimi meant "The Gift" to be a deadpan postmodernist horror comedy. The sole evidence to the contrary is Blanchett's performance: persuasive, subtle, impeccable. She seems the only guardian of sanity in this good-old-boy Bellevue...
produced by Wes Shih...
...Presumed Innocent, the selling points tend to be strong characters and a plot long on tension and surprises. That's a fair description of Christina Schwarz's Drowning Ruth (Doubleday; 338 pages; $23.95), which probably explains why, even before its publication, Miramax bought the screen rights for director Wes Craven. Readers should not wait for the film version, though, because this unusually deft and assured first novel conveys a good deal more than thrills and chills...
After the first quarter, which witnessed a goal by Big Green defenseman Wes Lippman, Harvard cranked up the intensity and took charge in the second quarter...
...between high-tech start-ups on both coasts. Rooms have three phone lines, high-speed Internet access, 330-thread-count Italian sheets and lots of mahogany. "There isn't a square of vinyl in the entire hotel," boasts general manager William Sander. Recent guests include film director Wes Craven, Viacom potentate Sumner Redstone and sundry chairmen of American and European banks. Rates start at $395 a night...