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...triangle movie Threesome. A jack-of-all-genres, Stephen has played a rider with the Pony Express on TV's Young Riders, an unwitting biosphere resident in the comedy Bio-Dome, and now a crimesolving New York City cop. In his new movie One Tough Cop, Stephen portrays Bo Dietl, a former NYPD officer who apprehended the men who viciously assaulted a New York City nun in 1981. Attired in slick black clothes and with even slicker hair, Stephen looked like a tough cop as he talked about his newest movie, and being one of the stars in the Baldwin...
...Tough Cop is inspired by a book of the same name by Bo Dietl, the main character of the movie. The real Dietl gained recognition when he caught two men who raped and nearly killed a nun in a New York City convent in 1981, resolving what then-mayor Ed Koch called "the most heinous crime in the history of New York City." The movie includes this event, as well as Dietl's friendly relations with members of the mob and his problems with the police station hierarchy. It looks like screenplay writer Jeremy Iacone, however, relied on more than...
...illustrate: the movie opens with Dietl (Stephen Baldwin) and his partner Duke (Chris Penn of Rumblefish and Reservoir Dogs) stopping the robbery of a homeless man in a pathetically choreographed fight reminiscent of the TV show "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers." Next! Dietl holds a little girl as he witnesses her father kill himself. Next! Dietl goes to a dinner party with the mob. Next! Two very angry FBI agents (not unlike Fox Mulder and Dana Scully of "The X-Files" in appearance and manner) are out to get Dietl. Next! Duke comes out as a debtor, an alcoholic, a compulsive...
Stephen, the youngest of the famous Baldwin brothers, doesn't play Dietl. Rather, he maintains a single facial expression of pouty sulleness and says the lines written for the character. He never gets angry, scared or sad, even in reaction to the deaths of characters with whom he has deep personal relationships. Baldwin did look tough, though, and came off as a cop, but looking real and natural aren't necessarily the hallmarks of good acting. Who wants to pay seven dollars to watch what they could see at the local donut shop? In the absence of a cohesive storyline...
Gianni Versace did not make his legend by aping the behavior of others. Yet there was one custom of his peers he might have done better to observe. "Such a high-profile guy," says Bo Dietl, head of a large New York detective agency. "He had to be crazy not to have security." One of Dietl's colleagues disagrees. "What could Versace have done differently?" asks Anthony Pellicano, a Los Angeles security consultant. "I'll tell you what. Nothing. Zero. If someone has the wherewithal, the time, the motivation and the skills to kill you, you are probably dead...