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...dark recesses of an Italian "social club" in lower Manhattan, Carmine Sabatini (Marlon Brando), an elderly mafioso, peers across a small table at Clark Kellogg (Matthew Broderick), a rosy-faced NYU film student fresh from Vermont. Sabatini orders Kellogg some Italian coffee and proceeds to pour four or five heaping spoonfuls of sugar into the small demitasse. The taste of the stuff is enough to make Kellogg grimace...
...story's ostensible business is to maneuver invincibly innocent Clark Kellogg (Matthew Broderick), an N.Y.U. film student fresh from Vermont, into close proximity with the massively knowing Carmine. A street-dumb kid is just what Carmine needs for one of his nefarious schemes and might also be, as he sees it, just the thing for his spirited daughter (Penelope Ann Miller). But the film defies both convenient description and conventional logic, and in fact it gets into desperate expositional troubles toward the end. This is a movie one loves for its incidental pleasures, not its ultimate intentions, whatever they...
...narrates -- the formation, training and terrible blooding in battle of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, the first black fighting unit enlisted in the Union cause -- are little known yet resonant with high symbolic significance. The 54th, led by an idealistic 25-year-old white man, Colonel Robert Gould Shaw (Matthew Broderick skillfully blending shyness and tenacity), had to fight to fight. Their white comrades-in-arms were full of contemptuous prejudice against them, and the high command was afraid to arm black men who had their own bitter racial grievances (many were runaway slaves...
Last week the Federal Aviation Administration proposed a rule requiring airlines to shore up their older 737s by replacing the 7,200 rivets on each plane's fuselage. "It's time to fix design weaknesses rather than continuing to inspect for flaws," said Anthony Broderick of the FAA. "It is a fundamental shift in our way of operating." Safety experts predicted that the ruling would eventually be extended to other aircraft that are 25 years old or older...
BILOXI BLUES. Neil Simon's wartime cliches are smartly polished by Director Mike Nichols and sharply worn by Matthew Broderick (as a wise-guy G.I.) and Christopher Walken (his tough sarge...