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Ultimately, the responsibility for making cities livable rests with their governments and their people. Too often those governments, whether in New York City or Kinshasa, become corrupt systems for dispensing benefits to agencies, employees and political supporters. If, as in Curitiba, governments can learn again how to serve the public, they can regain a mighty power -- the power that comes from harnessing the combined imaginations and enterprise of millions of human beings...
Unlike other anti-heroes America has mythologized, from Billy the Kid to Bugsy Siegel, Cube's gangsta persona has a moral compass. But apparently he hasn't found magnetic north yet: The Predator ends with the shooting of a corrupt cop as he reaches for a doughnut...
Sullivan, who wrote the script in collaboration with the actors, borrowed the theme from Gogol's masterpiece The Inspector General, about a corrupt town that goes all out trying to bribe a feckless clerk whom it collectively mistakes for a government investigator. The setting and some of the plot, however, came from an episode Sullivan heard about when serving on a National Endowment for the Arts theater panel: a beleaguered troupe, desperate to sustain its grant, offered to bribe an agency inspector who was also a playwright by pledging to produce his plays...
Hence Hoffa, an utterly externalized view of the corrupt, crusading boss of the Teamsters, James R. Hoffa. The R stood for Riddle, and David Mamet's lean script is content to leave him at that. Hoffa does stuff -- bullies management, connives with the Mob -- but who is he? The movie gives not a clue. Jack Nicholson looks eerily like his subject, and he has the abrupt gestures and staccato voice of a man who overcomes lack of eloquence by force of will. But director Danny DeVito, who also plays Hoffa's closest ally, gets way too fond...
...turning in the right direction," says Susan Jennik, head of the Association for Union Democracy, a reform group that has monitored the Teamsters since 1969. "But I don't agree with Carey's emphasis on opposing the government. It took decades for the union to get so corrupt, and it will probably take some time before it's totally cleaned...