`NIGHT SINS' RESTORES CRIME FILMS' IMAGE.Byline: Kinney Littlefield Orange County Register Jaded Crime Junkies R Us. No wonder many of us are tiring of the once seminally shocking genre of crime telefilms. Real life raises the sensation bar daily for TV movies and miniseries - for how can TV fiction truly compete with slain little beauty queens, vanishing O.J. fingerprints or limb-chopping rapist Lawrence Singleton Lawrence Singleton (July 28, 1927 - December 28, 2001) was an American criminal. He first gained notoriety in the late 1970s when he was arrested and convicted of raping and mutilating 15 year old Mary Vincent of Las Vegas. ? Well, those searching for a prime scare can take heart. Tonight's CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. miniseries ``Night Sins'' gives crime telefilms a frightening good name again. Based on the best-selling crime novel ``Night Sins'' by Tami Hoag, this two-part program is a shadowy, B-movie-styled telefilm tel·e·film n. A film produced for television broadcasting. Noun 1. telefilm - a movie that is made to be shown on television with smarts. It is the well-acted, filmed and edited story of a small Minnesota town turned upside down, starring Valerie Bertinelli as a scrappy State Bureau of Investigation field agent, Harry Hamlin as a small-town cop, and Karen Sillas as the frantic mother of a missing child who may be the latest victim of a cannibalistic can·ni·bal n. 1. A person who eats the flesh of other humans. 2. An animal that feeds on others of its own kind. [From Spanish Caníbalis, killer. Plus ``Night Sins'' goes one beyond the current vogue for getting inside the criminal mind a la ``Millennium'' and ``Profiler.'' It is narrated all breathy-shivery-first-person by the kidnapper-killer, to spike the titillating tit·il·late v. tit·il·lat·ed, tit·il·lat·ing, tit·il·lates v.tr. 1. To stimulate by touching lightly; tickle. 2. To excite (another) pleasurably, superficially or erotically. thrill. ``Yeah, it totally creeped me out,'' Hoag, 38, said of the miniseries from her Rochester, Minn., home Wednesday. ``The reason I normally write about rural areas is because crimes like this are still the aberration. They're rare; they're extremely shocking. The contrast of evil reaching out and touching such a town makes it all the more hard-hitting.'' Like other strong-stomached women who write about crime, Hoag does so in the calming company of a cat. Celebrated true-crime writer Ann Rule Ann Rule (born October 221935 in Lowell, Michigan) is a popular American true crime writer. Career Rule got her start writing for the magazine True Detective under the male nom de plume Andy Stack. has her writing cat Fluffbutt Rule, and Hoag has her Maine coon cat Maine coon cat: see cat. Maine coon cat North America's only native breed of longhaired domestic cat. Though its origins are unknown, it was first shown in Boston in 1878. Gryphon. Otherwise, Hoag's writing room, where she lives eight to 12 hours most days, is ruled by books on crime and law, with titles running to ``Hunting Humans'' and ``Sexual Homicide.'' Hoag prefers penning female heroes, a legacy of her days as a romance novelist whose books got increasingly scary until she finally turned to crime. In the romance genre, female heroes are de rigueur. ``I'm not organized plotwise,'' Hoag said of her work habits. ``I don't do "I Don't Do" was the debut single by glamour model Michelle Marsh, released on 6 November 2006. The single reached 27 in the UK in its first week, selling only 9,000 copies and over 16,000 copies as of January 2007. The single spend a total of four weeks in the Top 75. an outline. I do extensive profiles of my characters and put them in situations where they lead me. I always think I know who the villain is, but usually I'm wrong. It's sort of a wild ride that way.'' Tonight there's an odd resonance to ``Night Sins,'' as if the miniseries were somehow tuned to the same wacko cosmic vibes that have given us the slaying of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson Nicole Brown Simpson (May 19, 1959 – June 12, 1994) was the wife of American football player O.J. Simpson. Found murdered at her home in Los Angeles, California, along with her friend Ronald Goldman, her death led to one of the most controversial and widely-discussed criminal , the molestation-slaying of pint-size beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey, the killing of others less dissected, less sensationalized. ``Certainly in the last five years I've seen people really strongly drawn to such stories,'' Hoag said of crime fiction. ``People are afraid. Reading crime fiction may give you more of a sense of control because you can see justice happen and we know it doesn't always in real life. ``And crime is more in the news. I think the foundation of what a hero is, what our system is, was shaken by the O.J. Simpson case. You don't expect to see anything like that happen to someone like Simpson, to people like the Ramseys. ``And with the millennium coming it's possible people are thinking, `Oh my God, is this the end of everything?' '' THE FACTS The show: ``Night Sins.'' When: 9 p.m. today and Tuesday. Where: KCBS KCBS Kansas City Barbecue Society KCBS Korea Christian Book Service (now called KCB; Seoul, Korea) KCBS Kerala Catholic Bible Society (Kerala, India) (Channel 2). |
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