Twins: Dead Ringers

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Despite these provocations, Ms. Baer continued seeing Stewart Marcus. She even continued seeing him after a time when, just before she was to leave on a vacation, Stewart failed to keep his promise to see her, and Cyril — telephoned for advice — lashed out at her over the wires.

We follow the brothers as they pursue devilish fancies only to shatter the equilibrium that steadies their bond, sending them hurtling towards a shared deadly fate. Little do some know, the Mantle brothers were based on real-life twins Stewart and Cyril Marcus, who were also accomplished women’s health professionals in New York City until their mysterious deaths in 1975, both aged 45. The sinister circumstances of their deaths served up the perfect recipe for horror master Cronenberg and co-writer Norman Snider, who used their sordid story to effectively paint one of the most spine-tingling portraits of sibling rivalry on film to date.Howe, Desson (September 23, 1988). "Dead Ringers". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on December 1, 2017 . Retrieved April 12, 2017.

Nor had the kind of excitable, angry behavior which Ms. Baer describes arisen in the twins only recently. One quite medically sophisticated woman who had used Cyril as her obstetrician ten years ago reported to me that he had grown violently angry with her when she had told him that, because she was an older woman and feared she might give birth to a mentally retarded child, she wanted him to arrange with the hospital pediatrician to administer to her newborn a PKU test — a test for mental retardation now required by law and automatically given to all infants born in New York State. The test was not yet law at the time, however, and Cyril Marcus was enraged at the request. He told the woman the idea was ridiculous, that he had not even had the test for his own children, and that she was being grossly demanding. Shortly before she gave birth, the test did become standard procedure, but, if anything, this made Cyril even more angry and hostile to her.

Maslin, Janet (October 2, 1988). " "Ringers": the Eerier, the Better". The New York Times. Archived from the original on October 14, 2018 . Retrieved July 29, 2018. urn:lcp:twinsnovel00wood:epub:424c61d3-2466-49aa-880f-52226a0d94dd Foldoutcount 0 Identifier twinsnovel00wood Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t0zp51g1f Isbn 0451159896 Bob Bookman at ABC Motion Pictures was interested in the film, but Snider, Baum, Roth, and the source material were dropped to avoid complications. Cronenberg chose Andy Lewis, the writer of Klute, to write the script. Cronenberg criticized Lewis' approach to the film as Lewis wanted "to demystify them, and not let them be amazing or strange", not "impose any kind of mythology on twins", and wanted "all twins to be normal people who just happened to be twins". Bookman was replaced by Stu Samuels, who was not interested in the film, and ABC Motion Pictures later dissolved. [8] Atanarjuat voted No. 1 Canadian film of all time". CBC News. April 24, 2015. Archived from the original on April 11, 2017 . Retrieved August 29, 2016. Rachel Weisz: I was a fan of the film, the original 1988 Cronenberg masterpiece, for many, many years. I was looking for stories that I could be in, stories with a female character or relationship at the centre of it, ie women in relation to other women. Sisters seemed like really interesting terrain for storytelling. And then it just came to me: ‘What if that story was retold and I played the twins and it was set now?’ I went to Sue Nagel at Annapurna and she also thought it was a good idea and she got the rights from Morgan Creek, which was a process. Then I asked Alice if she thought it was an interesting idea too.

Belzec, 1945. A group of Jews have not only survived the concentration camp, but also seem to have thrived. Ebert, Roger (September 23, 1988). "Dead Ringers". Rogerebert.com. Archived from the original on March 22, 2020 . Retrieved April 12, 2017. Lccn 76052948 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-alpha-20201231-10-g1236 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.7882 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-0000838 Openlibrary_edition The Tribe is a unique horror novel. It’s not a gross-out horror and it doesn’t have a continuous stream of terrors. What differentiates it from other quiet horrors is the emphasis on the Jewish way of life. Taking place in the early 1980s, memories (and survivors) of the Holocaust are very much present in the story. BEHIND THE PEN

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But Terrell had reasons beyond the nose on his face to suspect that there was a dead man — or two dead men — in the apartment. Once before he had been called upon to break open the door to 10H. It is his story of this event that makes the death of the Marcuses seem not just a sudden inexplicable tragedy but a tragedy with long, concealed roots. That other time, about three years ago, Terrell had been passing by 10H on his way from a repair job in a nearby apartment when he heard a buzzing sound within. It sounded like a phone off the hook. He thought nothing of it until, several hours later, he had cause to be on the tenth floor once again, passed 10H, and once again heard the buzzing. This time he rang the doorbell and began to pound loudly on the door. When no one answered his noises, Terrell says, he got the phone number of Cyril’s brother Stewart and telephoned him at his office. Terrell said to Stewart, “There’s something not quite kosher at your brother’s place. I think your brother needs help.” In New York she fell in love with and married Dr. Gilbert Congdon Wood (b. 1915 – d. 2000), a biologist for the American Cancer Society. In 1981 they moved to a farmhouse in Ridgefield, Connecticut. [2] In 2008, she married Dennis Preston Kazee and moved to Lansing, Michigan.Cronenberg, David (2006). David Cronenberg: Interviews with Serge Grünberg. Plexus Publishing. ISBN 0859653765. Melnyk, George (2004). One Hundred Years of Canadian Cinema. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0-8020-3568-X. The 25 scariest movies of all time". Entertainment Weekly. February 19, 2011. Archived from the original on September 18, 2018 . Retrieved February 23, 2011. Birch: I think we had decided early on that they were obstetricians [rather than gynecologists], which is different from the film. This was partly due to story - it meant we had access to a whole new kind of patient and central characters, but also that they, and particularly Beverly, had these huge ambitions to build a centre that will change how women birth. For Elliott, it’s much more about scientific discovery There’s less empathy or compassion – it’s purely driven by her own scientific excitement.