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Harry Angel is investigating one such compact. Louis Cyphre (Robert De Niro), a dapper gent with long fingernails that could rip your heart out, has hired him to find Johnny Favorite, who hit it big as a crooner before the war, then disappeared, body and soul, welshing on a commitment to Cyphre. The people who knew Favorite -- a junkie physician (Michael Higgins), a blues guitarist (Brownie McGhee), a society girlfriend (Charlotte Rampling) and her father (Stocker Fontelieu) -- share two annoying habits: they won't tell all they know, and they keep turning up dead, in circumstances that implicate Angel...
...room of the historic Campidoglio on Capitoline Hill and exchanged vows in front of the councilman for the city police. (The mayor sent his regrets.) Afterward, the pair posed briefly for photographers, she threw her bouquet of white roses to a friend, and they were off, as the dapper groom explained, to stay "with friends in Rome for a few days and then we have to get back to work." And who had designed Rector's calf-length cream silk-and-lace ensemble? Answered she: "Calvin, of course...
...trial of the most powerful of all U.S. Mafia families: the Gambinos. Here a younger, more flamboyant crime boss strutted through the courtroom, snapping out orders to subservient henchmen, reveling in his new and lethally acquired notoriety. John Gotti, 45, romanticized in New York City's tabloids as the "Dapper Don" for his tailored $1,800 suits and carefully coiffed hair, has been locked in prison without bail since May, only a few months after he allegedly took control of the Gambino gang following the murder of the previous boss, Paul Castellano...
...Circle-Vision 360. The 100 small panels that make up the huge screen in the Energy Pavilion at Disney World's Epcot Center rotate in sync, creating gorgeous sculptured images. Filmed characters interact with spooky holograms and jolly robots. Thus it is with justifiable bluster that Frank Wells, the dapper, track-star-thin boss of Disney's theme lands, describes the company's latest park attraction as "far more than a motion picture. It is a total three-dimensional experience." Rusty Lemorande, the film's producer, calls it "not so much a movie as a 'feelie.' You don't just...
...prison can be hard on a man, and when Gotti finally appeared last week in Brooklyn Federal Court, the "Dapper Don" of the tabloids showed signs of fashion fatigue. No tie. No tan. His graying hair no longer meticulously styled. Only a starched white pocket handkerchief, practically a Gotti trademark, hinted of better days as the alleged head of the Gambino crime family. While attorneys painstakingly questioned prospective jurors, whose names were kept secret for their protection, Gotti suffered another setback: U.S. District Judge Eugene Nickerson ruled that during the trial, the boss could not eat lunch in the courtroom...