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...after the melodrama, after the white devil disappears offstage, snarling like Cagney, a scruple (call it A.C.L.U. logic, a schoolmarm in the mind) begins to wave its little hand in the back of the hall. Easy cases make bad law, or bad principle. The powerful emotional sway of this one is unsettling...
...Hanks even refers to the Godfather trilogy as the perfect guide to life, the I-Ching for guys. Rappers seem to agree. Snoop Dogg's sophomore album was titled The Doggfather. Silkk the Shocker's new album is called Made Man. On his song Boomerang, Big Pun echoes James Cagney in White Heat, yelling, "Top of the world, Ma! Top of the world...
...Club, where a group of New York conservatives meet monthly for drinks and palaver. She swept into the room wearing a black pants outfit and a long, charcoal gray feather boa. With her gold cigarette holder and her swampy voice, she seemed a cross between Angela Lansbury and Jimmy Cagney. She made straight for the bar, and conversational clusters parted like the Red Sea as she passed...
...office at 3:30 a.m. for a champagne toast with her staff. She compared her surprise victory to the Academy Award her husband Ernest Borgnine won for Best Actor in 1955. "When Ernie was up for Marty, the odds were against him. He had Frank Sinatra, James Cagney, Spencer Tracy and James Dean, who had just passed away. So, many years apart, we shared an experience in our industries," she said. The FiFi will sit in the Borgnine home media center, next to Ernest's Oscar...
...movie still packs a good old-fashioned ideological punch. And it's peppered with familiar faces; you'll spot Cagney, Frank Fontana, and the guy who stole the raisins on Seinfeld; points for Doogie Howser's father and Otis Day from "Animal House," and a BRAND NEW CAR for anyone who recognizes Bud Bundy before the credits roll. Give it a day in court...