Word: copping
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...purer and cheaper product that his competitors offered. Finally, Frank, who is played with a smooth coolness by Denzel Washington that eluded the more rough-hewn Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney, does not come to a tragic end. Eventually, he is turned by an almost comically obsessive cop named Richie Roberts (Russell Crowe), does some jail time and loses his fortune, but remains available to tell his story...
...Halloween gathering was once a spontaneous event, taking place on a public street and without an official organizational authority. But when things went wrong, it was the city and the university that got the blame. With less than one cop for every 10 people, little could be done besides resorting to tear gas to disperse the crowd of debauched revelers...
...Benicio del Toro’s ethnicity as a handicap or a hurdle, and three shots every time he calls him Samoan. 3. Negative two shots every time a character vomits—it’s only fair. 4. Rejoice and drink when Gary Busey appears as a cop and asks Johnny Depp to smooch. Seriously, it happens. 5. Take a drink every time somebody smokes. 6. Pysch! Number 5 would be way too loco. They’re always smoking. We’re not trying to kill you. 7. Take nine shots when Benicio del Toro?...
...stark, drab New York City of 1988, it is unmistakably a product of our current social climate—a loud glorification of government-backed violence and a raucous endorsement of a “do whatever it takes” mentality. In the film’s world, cops are still called pigs, cocaine rules the street, Blondie still plays at clubs, and mobsters with ponytails wear tight leather jackets. But such 80s cultural stereotypes seem anachronistic, mostly because they so poorly mask the fact that the questions at the film’s core are distinctly those...
That's Vansandt's cue. The American bombs are the bad cop to his good cop routine. He tells them that the Americans shell the region because the JAM use it to launch rockets at the nearby U.S. Forward Operating Base Kalsu outside the nearby city of Iskandariyah. Only the Iraqis in the area can make it go away. "When the [local] sheiks get a [volunteer] program for Abu Jassim [the eastern zone uncontrolled by the U.S.], then we can stop the bombing," he says. "Tell the sheiks what you want...