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An
alumnus of Syracuse University and Hunter College, director/
writer Peter Hyams entered show business as a CBS TV
newscaster. His first feature film assignment was T.R.
Baskin (1971), which he wrote and produced. His maiden
directorial efforts were the well-received TV movies
The Rolling Man and Goodnight My Love, both broadcast
in 1972.
The films Hyams has directed for theatrical release
have included such slick, satisfying fare as Busting
(1974) and Peeper (1976). Perhaps his best film work
was concentrated in the Alan Pakula/Oliver Stone school
of sociopolitical paranoia: Capricorn One (1978) and
The Star Chamber (1983). Much castigated for "daring"
to follow Stanley Kubrick's 2001 with the only fitfully
successful sequel 2010 (1983), Hyams exhibited a considerable
amount of directorial skill in glossing over the plot
holes that he himself, as screenwriter, concocted.
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