Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...true: the gang's all here. O.K., Scorsese had to be dragged kicking and equivocating into the movie; De Niro kept cajoling the director, and Spielberg, whose Amblin Entertainment produced the film, kept encouraging him to try a mainstream thriller. Even during shooting he seemed defensive. "This is only a remake," Scorsese said on the set in Florida, "an extension of the themes in the 1962 original. Look at this scene we're doing: man picks up rock, hits bad guy." But by now, as he fine-tunes Cape Fear for release next week, it is uniquely Scorsese's picture...
...notion behind the Carmen boom is no more complex than that old favorite, cops and robbers. Carmen is a glamorous ex-spy turned international thief, who leads a gang of wry rogues with names such as Clare d'Loon, Luke Warmwater and Justin Case. The light-fingered mob crisscrosses the globe and skips back and forth in history in search of national treasures to smuggle. Carmen may steal away to ancient China to purloin the Great Wall, hop ahead to medieval England to snitch the Magna Charta, or foray to present-day Uganda to abscond with a rare mountain gorilla...
...trick of Doctorow's novel -- a meditation on '30s Mob boss Dutch Schultz -- was in its narrative voice. Young Billy, from Bathgate Avenue in the Bronx, was the ideal observer: a talisman for the gang, a kind of underworld groupie who is appreciative of their style and implicated in their actions but still one ironic step outside their souls, and who is ready to analyze every movement and moment in 484 pages of headlong streetwise orotundity and subordinate clauses even longer than this one. Tom Stoppard's script daringly dumps that voice (there is no voice-over narration) and puts...
Recently, Charney has even expanded the program to target inner-city gang members...
...Ransom, at 40-some, is getting too old for this. He bosses a gang that poisons tracts of scrub forest with herbicide, so that the land can be planted with fast-growing pine. That's days. Nights, he drinks, bar fights, gambles, cats around, aggravates the local cops. In between he cruises the Mississippi back roads in an old pickup, drinking beer from a big cooler...