Word: brothers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Liotta: What the movie is about and what it's saying is that it's all right to show your emotions and how you feel about things. Just because [Dominick]'s my brother and a male doesn't mean that we can't be close, and hopefully that's in a sense unique. You know, we lie in bed together. As an actor, it's fun to do things that are new and challenging...
...Crimson spoke last week with Actor Ray Liotta, who was in Boston to promote Dominick and Eugene, in which he plays Eugene, the medical student brother of the retarded Dominick, played by Tom Hulce (see accompanying review...
Fortunately, twin brother "Gino," played by Ray Liotta (see accompanying interview), is around to provide protection. Gino is in his final year of medical school, paid for by Nicky's garbage salary. Strong, handsome, intelligent-yet-sensitive Gino beats up or otherwise intimidates any hooligans who seem to pose a threat to Nicky. When Gino becomes a doctor, the brothers plan to buy a house by a lake and live happily ever after...
...Nicky, Ray Liotta gives a reasonably competent performance as Gino. Liotta avoids the potential trap of making guardian angel Gino seem like a Superman by portraying an easy frustration with Nicky's mistakes. While Nicky pathetically begs forgiveness for some stupid mistake, Gino mercilessly continues to scold his brother. Liotta is best during emotional scenes, but his acting suffers whenever he is separated from Hulce, particularly in scenes away from the inner-city world Nicky and Gino live in. Fortunately, most of Liotta's scenes are emotional encounters with Nicky...
With all its wealth, the cartel need not stoop to violence to get its way. Up to 80% of the police force in Medellin is suspected of working for the Mafia. Last December the cartel was able to secure the release from a Bogota jail of Jorge Luis, a brother of Jorge Ochoa Vasquez's, a reputed drug billionaire whose sudden release from a Colombian prison last January infuriated the Reagan Administration...