Word: copping
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Since then, Tony Scott has audaciously continued to hijack mainstream film. Unlike brother Ridley, the younger Scott has consistently stamped what would otherwise be soulless B-movie fare with a surprising sense of heart, producing a distinctive brand of assured and inventive commercialism. With Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop II, True Romance, Crimson Tide, Enemy of the State and Spy Game under his belt, Scott has become explosive popcorn’s answer to Tom Hanks...
...real professional, the kind of hero who can inventively fashion an explosive suppository and staunch severed-finger wounds with an automobile cigarette lighter. (Walken, with the not-quite-provoked manic intensity that has made him a cult figure, enthusiastically tells the film’s lone honest cop that Washington is “an artist of violence who is about to paint his masterpiece” before one such scene.) Still, he is only cruel when it is necessary to draw out the next line in the kidnapping chain; the kidnappers’ villainy is constant, conveniently making sure...
...major character in one is a minor one in the next—and is done as a different genre—the first and second films were a thriller and a comedy, respectively—leaving this melodrama to complete the story. This features Pascal, a cop and his heroin abuser wife that he loves too much to cut her off. In fact, he does whatever he can to make sure she has a constant supply so she doesn’t have to suffer. The interesting aspect of this film is how it makes pitiful characters...
Following yesterday's postponement of races, Harvard's Freshman sailing team emerged as champion of the Charles River Dinghy League, it was announced by officials last night. Since no additional attempt to complete the schedule will be made, the Yardlings cop both team and individual honors, George O'Day of the local navigators topping the loop with a percentage...
...opposite of the TV business. Traditional TV, which depends on ad and syndication sales, rewards breadth of appeal: the ability to keep millions from changing the channel. DVDS reward depth of appeal: the ability to get thousands to pay to watch something again. One reason there are so many cop dramas, for instance, is that their stories, which are resolved in an hour, sell better in reruns. Series like Alias and 24, which have deeply involving serial plots, are poor candidates for reruns, but they have committed fan bases willing to buy DVDs. And while Top 10 hits like Friends...