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...much more violent that it really belonged in another country altogether. By the time Katrina hit, most law-enforcement types in the city had come to an unpleasant conclusion: no amount of arrests would stanch the murder rate. Somewhere along the way, despite the best efforts of techno-cop Chief Richard Pennington in the 1990s, despite tens of thousands of arrests for drug and quality-of-life crimes, violence had become normalized...
...department's atrocious history. In the 1990s, a group of officers was arrested for operating a drug-dealing ring within the department. An N.O.P.D. officer hired a hit man to kill a woman who had reported police brutality. Although the department has improved since then, the transcript of the cop ordering the execution, recorded by an FBI wiretap, is lodged in the collective memory of the city...
...just hilarious.” Such strange yet effective mixtures are employed all over the play. The score—which, according to Mitnick, “defies musical norms”—includes toe-tappers, sweeping melodies, and raps, with accompaniment from DJ Cop Killer. “I wanted to see if I could write a score without the notes A or E,” Mitnick says. “Unfortunately,” Katz adds, “DJ Cop Killer only used those notes...
CHRIS ROCK After a model filed a paternity suit against the comic in 1999, Pellicano allegedly had cop friends run an illegal background check on her. DNA tests later showed that Rock wasn...
...BUZZ Production, on location in Florida and the Caribbean, was rougher than Don Johnson's stubble. Hurricanes closed the set three times, as did an incident in the Dominican Republic involving an off-duty cop who wanted to get on-set and a spot of gunfire; in December, Farrell had to be treated for exhaustion and dependency on prescription medication. Mann, a notoriously meticulous director, has pulled off tough, big-star productions before (Heat, Ali). But movie audiences have tended to like their TV remakes campy (Charlie's Angels, Mr. & Mrs. Smith), and Mann takes Vice, the movie, dead seriously...