Word: copping
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...hostage negotiator on the case, has anything to say about it. Frazier is dealing with a psychotically-calm bank robber, but his personal life is a mess. He is embroiled in a fraud scandal at work and has a girlfriend who is pushing for marriage. So we have the cop-with-something-to-prove and the mysterious British villain (actually, Clive Owen might be playing American—his accent is a bit hard to pin down); toss in a shady power broker (Jodie Foster), and you’ve got yourself a perfect Friday night crime thriller...
...someone drops the F-Bomb. Take two shots if someone drops it more than 8 times in one sentence. Go ahead, count. 3. When you hear the baptism reference while the brothers are in prison. Actually, take six shots, you dirty heathen. 4. Every time Willem Dafoe, playing a cop, reminds you of a J. Crew model that’s been run through a trash compactor. 5. Every time Dafoe mocks someone by assuming a false accent. 6. Every time Dafoe does his police work with loud, melodramatic classical music in the background. 7. Every time Dafoe sends...
...Brian Ballard), known as Mack the Knife, as he robs, cheats and womanizes his way into our hearts. His life intersects those of the miserly Mr. and Mrs. Peachum (Nathan Troup and Tracy Reynolds) the resentful prostitute Jenny Diver (Karoun A. Demirjian ’03), and the corrupt cop Tiger Brown (Nicholas N. Commins ’09) and his daughter Lucy (Kathleen A. Stetson ’03), but these characters are all colorful peripherals to the central character and story of Macheath. Maybe the dominance of Macheath is only due to the fantastic performance of Ballard, whose...
...take obvious elements from their television experience. The film functions like a sitcom—unsurprisingly, given the writer’s background and that director Tom Dey was the mastermind behind “Showtime,” a Robert DeNiro/Eddie Murphy spoof about reality-based TV cop shows. The script juggles the main love story with numerous subplots—including one about a comical obsession with killing a mockingbird—to keep the audience from getting bored. But even the most naïve viewer can guess every point in the plot—Can Tripp...
Dust off those Air Forces. Unpack the SL-1200s.Before long, freestyle neophytes curious about hip-hop history will be able to take their “ass to the museum”—in the characteristically bombastic words of “Cop Killer” rapper Ice-T—to have some knowledge dropped on their inquiring domes. Grandmaster Flash, the Smithsonian needs you. The Smithsonian’s recent request for rap artifacts to be featured in their upcoming exhibit, “Hip Hop Won’t Stop: The Beats, the Rhymes, the Life...