Critical Essay by Lois Gould
[What] is a successful, much-admired dramatist doing here, in a wild-eyed, exclamation-pointed science fiction?…
"Altered States" is Mr. Chayefsky...
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Critical Essay by Roberta Rubenstein
Eddie Jessup, the ambitious, monomaniacal scientist of Chayefsky's [Altered States, seeks] … consciousness of the "original self," but...
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Background InfoBorn on 22 February 1975,
Drew
Barrymore
was destined to become an actress from the outset. Her grandfather
John
Barrymore
had been one of the early matinee idols, while her grea...
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Question 1 of 10:Brave from the beginning,
Hurt
made his film debut in which surreal, drug-orientated sci-fi drama of 1980?
Saturn 3
Altered States
Videodrome
Brainstorm
Question 2 of 10:
H...
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Quizzes are fun, but what do they really tell you? This one reveals the dangers to which many of us subject our primary love relationships—and the denial that goes with the territory. It was ...
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To Michael Ruhlman, dining at a four-star restaurant is akin to a religious experience. “The meaning of life could be found in an onion,” he writes in his new book, The Reach of a Chef,...
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To Michael Ruhlman, dining at a four-star restaurant is akin to a religious experience. “The meaning of life could be found in an onion,” he writes in his new book, The Reach of a Chef,...
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The newest fall guy for the brass is U. S. Army dog handler Sgt. Michael J. Smith, 24, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Found guilty by a court martial, the young sergeant will spend six months in jail, be...
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The newest fall guy for the brass is U. S. Army dog handler Sgt. Michael J. Smith, 24, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Found guilty by a court martial, the young sergeant will spend six months in jail, be...
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WHEN PAUL, MY FUTURE HUSBAND, KISSED ME for the first time, it was sweet and sexy and sort of salty—the way a kiss by the ocean should be, if you had thought to imagine it that way. We made a...
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¡Hola! Pedro Almodóvar’s funny, scary and innovative Volver has been reviewed at so many film festivals that I’m not sure anyone wants to hear another word about it. But there...
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On a sweaty afternoon in mid-September, three days into the new school year, 16-year-old Oliver Ignatius and 15-year-old Josh Barocas were holding court in the St. Ann’s School’s well-w...
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