Word: cioffi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Looking and sounding a lot like Alexander Scourby, Charles Cioffi deserves praise as the senator, though the role remains confusing and enigmatic. We get a clearer picture of his long-dead father. The daughter (Shaine Marinson) is cipher, and the aide (David Rasche) only a little better. This leaves the mother as the sole rounded character, and Irene Worth never fails to hold out interest--whether singing, preparing food, looking out the window, lying on a couch, or blowing out 17 candles...
...short, there is a little something for everybody in Crazy Joe - except those who insist on at least routine cinematic competence even in gangster movies. With Peter Boyle in the title role, and Rip Torn, Eli Wallach, Charlie Cioffi and Luther Adler as supporting hoods, there is a fair amount of acting ability on hand, but each man seems to be working in a minimovie all his own. Director Lizzani is unable to find in Carlino's ripped-off script a solid tempo from which the actors might take a common beat. As a result, Crazy Joe never lives...
...exwife, an inanely flamboyant provincial actress passing through Houston in a touring company of Plaza Suite, who resolves to give her former spouse another tumble when she gets word of his criminal exploits. As a big businessman in the process of being blackmailed by O'Neal, Charles Cioffi, who appeared as the,villain in Klute and the beleaguered cop in Shaft, continues to display a chameleon-like facility. Austin Pendelton as a chess master driven to fits of impotent violence by O'Neal's computerized skill at the game, Ned Beatty as a fast-talking fence...
When the latest round of talks began, the secrecy surrounding meeting sites was officially abolished. By that time, though, newsmen had become understandably suspicious. Sure enough, Kissinger sped off to an unannounced villa in Neuilly, but the motorcyclists were in hot pursuit. Later in the week, ABC Correspondent Louis Cioffi tried to dangle a microphone into the garden from an adjacent building, but it got tangled in a bush and was spotted by security men. Kissinger kidded Cioffi about this embarrassment, but let the mike stay where...
...Cioffi, who was equally impressive as the villain in Klute. There is also some robust acting by Moses Gunn as an orotund Harlem mobster. Despite a few too many racial jokes, Shaft is a fast-moving pleasure. Director Gordon Parks keeps things going at such a headlong pace that the movie hardly pauses for breath...