Word: cimino
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...YEAR OF THE DRAGON, a suspense-action film starring brat packer Mickey Rourke as a hard-nosed New York detective out to expose the crooked dealings of the Chinese mafia, marks Director Michael Cimino's wobbly return to the silver screen after his cinematic catastrophe of 1982, the much-heralded Heaven's Gate. In a vain attempt to redeem himself in the eyes of the viewing public, Cimino assumes the Herculean task of grafting together elements of the action-adventure, love-story, cops-and-robbers and suspense-thriller genres. The final result is nothing more than an unintelligible mass...
...earned nearly $3.6 million in cassette sales thus far. Dune, a big-budget bomb last Christmas, has made $7.5 million in sales to video stores and has been on Billboard's Top 40 chart for 13 weeks. Even the most famous box-office fiasco of all, Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate, has made $3 million in home video, twice as much as it earned in two abortive theatrical releases...
...suit, filed late in December, charges that Yale University, the City of New Haven, the City of West Haven (which supplied some security for the game) and Ogden Security, Inc. "definitely did not take appropriate and diligent care under the circumstances" to prevent the accident, Cimino's lawyer, Kenneth J. Finger, said Yesterday...
...Cimino's parents declined to comment on the suit...
...Cimino family indicated last March that they planned to use the City of New Haven. At that time, Yale Athletic Director Frank B. Ryan told The Crimson that it may be difficult for Cimino to make a strong case against Yale because "a mob of people brought this about. You could have had an army of policemen out there and still not have stopped them...