Word: als
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dirty rats. It seems like everyone has been after Director Brian De Palma, 42, since he started filming his updated version of the 1932 gangster classic Scarface. Instead of Paul Muni playing the real Italian immigrant, Al Capone, Al Pacino stars as Tony Montana, a fictional Cuban immigrant who is part of the modern cocaine trade in Florida. First the Cuban community in Miami tried to stop the film, claiming that it portrayed Hispanics in an unfavorable light. Next, De Palma reportedly got death threats from real-life mobsters, who were disinclined to have nationwide publicity. Now the $23.5 million...
...laid in the West of Scotland." That kind of screwball is still pitched effectively by Monty Python, but it is not a sign of seniority. Virginia Woolf believed that Ring Lardner had "talents of a remarkable order." And so he had. But the episode from You Know Me Al leans hard on misspelling and false naiveté, favorite devices of the novice: "Florrie thinks she has got to have a new dress though she has got two changes of cloths now and I don't know what she can do with another...
...joined to her head. There was something complete about them; you knew they were there for keeps. When you're a private eye, you want things to stay put." Later, in Yma Dream, Thomas Meehan offers a Carrollian nightmare in which the Misses Chaplin, Sumac, Gardner, Gabor, et al., and the Messrs. Eban, Ehrenburg, Betti, etc., are introduced to Miss Hagen, the actress: "Uta, Yma; Uta, Ava; Uta, Oona; Uta, Ona; Uta, Ida; Uta, Ugo; Uta, Abba; Uta, Ilya...
Miles Davis may have heard it coming, or surely sensed it. Down in New Orleans in the mid-'60s, he was saying hello to a widely regarded jazz pianist, Ellis Marsalis, who was playing behind Al Hirt. Marsalis had a little boy of six named Wynton at home, and Wynton had an older brother named Branford, who was playing both clarinet and piano by the time he reached second grade. Feeling a few faint nudges of paternal concern that Wynton not fall behind in the musical Futurity Stakes, Ellis hit Hirt for an advance to finance the purchase...
...Shanties that look as if they were about to implode perch uneasily on streets set at a San Francisco diagonal. The JUST MARRIED legend on the car of a young bride and groom is scrawled in Polish; Ihe not-so-happy couple plans to honeymoon in Pittsburgh. The guys al the Ampipe steel mill who have not been laid off probably wish they could be, and Ihe high school football team manages lo blow its big game against an upscale rival. The only escape route for Stefan Djordjevic (Cruise) is a college sports scholarship, and his prospects look grim...