Michael Easton (12/92 Shadow of a Stranger)

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Excerpt from Hollywood Reporter 12/7/92: Michael Easton, on Synchronicity | Shadow of a Stranger

'Shadow of a Stranger'
By Rick Sherwood

It's the story of a successful young couple who visit the wife's all-but-abandoned ancestral seaside mansion under the guise of putting their marriage back together. He (Parker Stevenson) is a big-shot attorney whose firm is in legal and financial trouble, she (Emma Samms) is the country's top fashion model anxious to start a family. Their holiday in paradise goes well for about two minutes, and then is distrupted by the appearance of a very odd couple (Joan Chen, Michael Easton) whose boat has been wrecked in a storm. Things are never the same after that, either for their weekend or for this film. It becomes a case of betrayal, sexual intrigue and blackmail when the couple just won't go away and the fantasy weekend turns into a nightmare. Samms is quite alluring in her role and Easton provides the film with an eerie sexuality, but Chen is much too cold and calculating, and Stevenson's wide-eyed portrayal is just too wide-eyed to be believed.
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Shadow of a Stranger (credits)
NBC
Doris Keating Productions in association with NBC Productions
Executive producer Doris Keating Schlesinger
Producer Hugh Benson
Writer/director Richard Friedman
Director of photography Rodney Charters
Production designer Mark Freeborn
Editor Jim Gross
Music Gary Chang
Cast: Emma Samms, Parker Stevenson, Michael Easton, John Pyper-Ferguson, Joan Chen
Airdate: Monday, Dec. 7, 9-11 p.m.

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Excerpt from Starlog 4/99: Michael Easton, on Synchronicity

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From there, Easton tried his hand at an assortment of jobs. He wrote and directed a film short called Daedalus is Dead, penned a volume of poetry entitled Eighteen Straight Whiskeys and paid the rent with a variety of acting stints ranging from Stephen Cannell's syndicated series Two and the acclaimed but short-lived drama 413 Hope St. to the independent films Cold Fire and Shadow of a Stranger.

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