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All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring William Atherton, ranked
On Christmas Eve 1988, NYPD Detective John McClane arrives in Los Angeles intending to reconcile with his estranged wife, Holly. He is driven to Nakatomi Plaza by his driver, Argyle, to attend a Christmas party held by Holly’s employer, the Nakatomi Corporation; Argyle waits for McClane in the garage.
Peter Venkman, Raymond Ray Stantz, and Egon Spengler are scientists at Columbia University investigating the paranormal. Following their first encounter with a ghost manifesting at the New York Public Library, the dean fires them and dismisses the credibility of their research.
On Christmas Eve 1990, two years after the Nakatomi Tower Incident, former New York city police officer John McClane is now working for the Los Angeles police department and is waiting at Washington Dulles International Airport for his wife Holly to arrive from Los Angeles. Learning that Cochrane was believed to have been killed in action while serving in Honduras, McClane relates the situation to airport police captain Carmine Lorenzo, who bluntly dismisses his concerns.
An acclaimed stage performer, Dorothy struggled with the challenge of her color in Hollywood. She beat out many more famous rivals for the role of ‘ ‘Carmen Jones’ ‘, and became the first black woman ever nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award. Seductive and easily seduced, she was born to be a star. Here was a woman who wouldn’t wait in the wings.
After two Supreme Court justices, Jensen and Rosenberg, are killed by an assassin named Khamel, Tulane University law student Darby Shaw writes a legal brief detailing her theory on why they were killed. An informant calling himself Garcia contacts Washington Herald reporter Gray Grantham with information about the assassinations, but suddenly disappears.
During the summer of 1958, two sisters who had recently become orphans were entrusted to their mentally unstable Aunt Ruth in a peaceful suburban town. However, Ruth’s twisted notion of discipline would eventually result in horrendous instances of mistreatment and torment.