Word: costanzo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unfortunately, Billy Crystal wasn't so lucky in Running Scared. The growth of stubble which, I assume, was supposed to make his character Detective Danny Costanzo more believable as a tough Chicago vice cop, only made me want to take a napkin and wipe it off like a two-year-old's chinfull of chocolate milk...
...scenes of Running that this film's Chicago--grim, gray and covered with dirty slush--is clearly not the same shining citadel we saw last week in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. There's crime on the streets of Chicago, unlike in picture-perfect Winnetka, and its up to Costanzo and his oh-so-cool sidekick Ray Hughes to whip the outlaws into shape...
...recalls exactly what Beverly Hills Cop was about. All that counts here is the exchanges between Hines and Crystal wonderfully egged along by some excellent dialogue provided by Gary DeVore and Jimmy Huston. Contemplating a potential chemical transaction somewhere on the south side of Chicago, Hughes and Costanzo wonder whether or not to intercede when a 450SEL pulls up alongside a tenement building. Costanzo rebuts Hughes' worries about violating the probable cause rule, by saying, "In this neighborhood, a Mercedes is probable cause...
...someone named Julio, doesn't look as if he would be capable of throwing over a candy store let alone masterminding a huge cocaine-importing business. But this typecasting aside, he somehow manages to corner the detectives into turning over a haul of cocaine. Julio does that by kidnapping Costanzo's about-to-be-remarried ex-wife and holding her hostage in a glass elevator at the top of the State Building in downtown Chicago...
...Rockefeller Foundation formed a commission to study U.S. policy towards the country. Comprised of industrialists, academics and a labor unionist, the commission was chaired by Ford Foundation president Franklin Thomas. Its principal advisors included G.A. Costanzo, vice chairman of the board of Citibank: William Sneath, chairman of the board of Union Carbide Corporation: former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and Cyrus Vance; and Donald McHenry, former United States Ambassador to the United Nations...