Word: cops
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Dispassion vs. passion, intellect vs. instinct, the implosive vs. the explosive style--as writer-director Michael Mann develops the duel between this cop and this robber in Heat, his film becomes a compassionate contemplation of the two most basic ways of being male and workaholic in modern America. It also becomes a critique of pure reason. For Neil is placing impossible demands on himself, on his associates, on a chance universe in which they inhabit one of the chancier corners. He can't prevent himself from falling in love (with Amy Brenneman's innocent bookstore clerk). He can't prevent...
Neil McCauley (Robert de Niro) is an orderly and calculating bank robber. Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino) is a disorderly and incautious Los Angeles cop on McCauley's trail. "Dispassion vs. passion, intellect vs. instinct, the implosive vs. the explosive style. As writer-director Michael Mann develops the duel between this cop and this robber in 'Heat', his film becomes a compassionate contemplation of the two most basic ways of being male and workaholic in modern America," says TIME's Richard Schickel. With what may be the best armored-car robbery ever placed on film, Schickel notes Mann is seeking...
...EGAN, 65, police officer/actor; of cancer; in Miami. As a New York City detective in 1962, Egan oversaw the famed "French Connection" heroin bust, which inspired the 1971 movie. In it Egan, portraying his boss, was cast opposite Gene Hackman, who won an Oscar for playing Egan. The real cop went on to play a platoon's worth of the Hollywood sort...
...That was definitely the most fun recruiting trip. We went to Bourbes Street, hung out, went to the bars," he recalls. "There the drinking age in 18, and I remember sitting next to some cop, drinking...
...contemporary fixture: the blowhard with the warmest stool and coldest coffee in any cafe in the rural West. His newfound celebrity has made him untouchable, a sort of O.J. of the Purple Sage, as he and his cronies come dangerously close to joining the ranks of the cop killers. All assaults on public employees, regardless of weapon, should be vigorously prosecuted. JOHN WALKER, Coaldale, Colorado...