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Show USA EDITOR'S PICK Ci mec ta Page 04 March15 - 21, 2003 in His name was Ted Bundy. Rule chronicled her surreal experience as an unwitting insider to the Bundy case in the 1980 best seller “The Stranger Beside Me,” which comes to USA Network on Friday, March 21, in a taut adaptaByJohn Crook tion starring Barbara Hershey Zap2it and Billy Campbell as the two Principal charactersin this weird Policewoman-turnedbuttrue thriller. crime writer Ann Rule was ec“WhenI heard that this static when she landedher first was another thing about Ted book contract in 1975 to write Bundy, I thought, ‘Aaugh, do we abouta series of murders in the really need another Ted Bundy more this woman who had beena professional policewoman and profiler who discovers that this killer being soughtby police is 4 friend of hers - and how she has to face that and try to make sense ofit in light of both her feelings for him and her empathy for his victims. “I love the way that the writers didn’t go for any glib answers, because let's face it, the Ted Bundycase is less emotionally satisfying than others where we can comprehend some answers and get some closure Pacific Northwest movie?’ After all, that would With Ted Bundy, there are some A few monthslater, her probably please him greatly,” important questions that have no world beganto tilt when she got Hershey says. “But when I read clear answers.” a call from an old college friend the script, I realized it was less Playing a character telling her he had beenarrested ‘Stranger Beside Me’ revisits shocking Ted Bundycase |
