In addition, a crucial element in polylogic epistolary novels like Clarissa, and Dangerous Liaisons is the dramatic device of ' discrepant awareness ': the simultaneous but separate correspondences of the heroines and the villains creating dramatic tension.

He has worked under major directors, such as Stephen Frears ( in the 1988 period drama Dangerous Liaisons ); Gus Van Sant ( in the 1991 independent film My Own Private Idaho ); and Bernardo Bertolucci ( in the 1993 film Little Buddha ).

She picked up two more Academy Award nominations for Best Actress for her performances in Fatal Attraction ( 1987 ) and Dangerous Liaisons ( 1988 ).

She has been nominated for six Academy Awards, for Best Actress in Dangerous Liaisons, Fatal Attraction, and Albert Nobbs and for Best Supporting Actress in The Natural, The Big Chill and The World According to Garp ( her first film ).

In 1987 she played the disturbed book editor Alex in Fatal Attraction, and in 1988 she played the scheming aristocrat The Marquise de Merteuil in Dangerous Liaisons.

Pfeiffer received Academy Award nominations as Best Supporting Actress for Dangerous Liaisons ( 1988 ) and Best Actress in The Fabulous Baker Boys ( 1989 ) and Love Field ( 1992 ).

At Demme's personal recommendation, Pfeiffer joined the cast of Stephen Frears's Dangerous Liaisons ( 1988 ) alongside Glenn Close and John Malkovich, playing the virtuous victim of seduction, Madame Marie de Tourvel.

Dangerous Liaisons is a 1988 drama film based upon Christopher Hampton's play, Les liaisons dangereuses, which in turn was a theatrical adaptation of the 18th-century French novel Les Liaisons dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.

Dangerous Liaisons holds a score of 93 % on Rotten Tomatoes, and a score of 74 on Metacritic, indicating a positive critical reception.

Dangerous Liaisons won three Academy Awards out of seven nominations, for Best Adapted Screenplay ( Christopher Hampton ), Best Costume Design ( James Acheson ), and Best Art Direction ( Stuart Craig and Gérard James ).

Stephen Frears won the César Award for Best Foreign Film for Dangerous Liaisons.

Swoosie Kurtz, who plays the therapist starred, as Madame DeVolange in the 1988 film Dangerous Liaisons, of which this film is a modern remake.

Laurie appeared in the music videos for the 1986 single " Experiment IV " by Kate Bush, and the 1992 single " Walking on Broken Glass " by Annie Lennox, in full Georgian-period costume, a toned-down version of his Prince George character from Blackadder the Third, opposite John Malkovich, similarly reprising his role of the Vicomte Valmont from Dangerous Liaisons.

He has also appeared in critically acclaimed films such as Empire of the Sun, The Killing Fields, Dangerous Liaisons, Of Mice and Men, Con Air, Being John Malkovich, and Red.

A few years later, Malkovich became a star when he portrayed the sinister and sensual Valmont in the 1988 film Dangerous Liaisons.

They divorced after Malkovich became involved with Michelle Pfeiffer, his co-star in Dangerous Liaisons.

Among its most expensive flops were Great Balls of Fire !, starring Dennis Quaid as Jerry Lee Lewis and Winona Ryder as his teenage bride ; She-Devil, a domestic horror comedy featuring Meryl Streep and Roseanne Arnold ; and Valmont, a remake of Les Liaisons dangereuses, an eighteenth-century novel and twentieth-century play that already had been adapted and released as Dangerous Liaisons just a few months earlier.

* Dangerous Liaisons ( disambiguation )

* Dangerous Liaisons ( 1988, distributed by Warner Bros .)*

* Booknotes interview with Andrew and Leslie Cockburn on Dangerous Liaisons, September 1, 1991.

* The Dangerous Liaisons, composed by Conrad Susa to a libretto by Philip Littell, had its world premiere during the 1994 fall season and was the subject of a nationwide TV broadcast.

; The Lifted Curtain or Laura's Education, about a young girl's sexual initiation by her father, written by the French revolutionary politician Comte de Mirabeau ; also Les Liaisons dangereuses ( Dangerous Liaisons ) by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, first published in 1782.

In a Lonely Place ( 1950 ) was Nicholas Ray's breakthrough ; his other noirs include his debut, They Live by Night ( 1948 ), and On Dangerous Ground ( 1952 ), noted for their unusually sympathetic treatment of characters alienated from the social mainstream.

Her first film under RKO was The Most Dangerous Game ( 1932 ), co-starring Joel McCrea and shot at night on the same jungle sets that were being used for King Kong during the day, with the leads from both films, Wray and Robert Armstrong, appearing in both movies.

The Most Dangerous Game was followed by Wray's most memorable film, King Kong.

Such Men Are Dangerous was based on the life Alfred Lowenstein, a Belgian captain who either jumped or fell out of his plane in 1928.

Also there was John Romero's Dangerous Dave series, which included such notables as the tech demo ( In Copyright Infringement ) which led to the Commander Keen engine, and the decently popular Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion.

Antonioni's final film, made when he was in his 90s, was a segment of the anthology film Eros ( 2004 ), entitled " Il filo pericoloso delle cose " (" The Dangerous Thread of Things ").

The Harrison Narcotics Tax Act of 1914 restricted the manufacture and distribution of opiates, including laudanum, and coca derivatives in the United States ; this was followed by France's Loi des stupefiants in 1916, and Britain's Dangerous Drugs Act in 1920.

The earliest example of folk metal was the English band Golgotha, whose 1984 EP Dangerous Games contained a mixture of New Wave of British Heavy Metal and folk styles.

A movie titled " Веселая хроника опасного путешествия " ( Amusing Chronicle of a Dangerous Voyage ) was made in the Soviet Union in 1986 starring a famous Russian actor Alexander Abdulov.

In the 1999 Irish dance show, " Dancing on Dangerous Ground ", Diarmuid was portrayed by former Riverdance lead, Colin Dunne.

Dangerous Corner was the first of a series of plays that enthralled West End theatre audiences.

While continuing to play supporting roles in films like Spaceballs, Candy was awarded the opportunity to headline or co-star in such comedy films as Volunteers ; Planes, Trains and Automobiles ; Brewster's Millions ; The Great Outdoors ; Armed and Dangerous ; Who's Harry Crumb ?, Summer Rental, and Uncle Buck.

As seen in " Dangerous Currency ", this slime turned all those who were exposed to it, into more powerful and evil versions of themselves ( it was later revealed that after being split, his conscicence was sent to a neutral dimension, waiting to be returned, where he used Morgana's powers to cross between the dimensions ), where he had one last showdown with Darkwing, being sent back to the neutral dimension.

Similarly, the in-house band was unable to use the name " The World's Most Dangerous Band " so they instead called themselves the CBS Orchestra starring Paul Shaffer.

The Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914 restricted the manufacture and distribution of opiates, including laudanum, and coca derivatives in the United States ; this was followed by France's Loi des stupefiants in 1916, and Britain's Dangerous Drugs Act in 1920.

This was later made fun of by late comedian Bill Hicks on his album " Dangerous ", released in 1990.

The town was featured in History Channel's Tougher in Alaska, episode " Dangerous Earth ".

Stephen Bly ’ s Wild West novel Dangerous Ride Across Humboldt Flats ( Crossway Press, 2003 ) deals with the area before the town was built.

Spinrad's story " Carcinoma Angels " was the first story purchased by Harlan Ellison for his anthology Dangerous Visions.