Word: ganging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bryan Singer, whose last film was the crisply devious crime thriller The Usual Suspects, has narrowed his focus from that film's gang of five to a two-hander in Apt Pupil, from a Stephen King story. The other three directors have bought a big canvas (at a cut rate) and splashed strange people on it till it's as busy as a Bruegel. Solondz has a dozen major characters trudging through Happiness. Stanley Tucci, the co-writer, co-director and star of everyone's favorite Italian-food film, Big Night, has created a shipful of fools in his farce...
...maybe Gershwin's greatest legacy is his third answer: how to use jazz in songs. To put it another way, What greater musical legacy has America given the world than the songs of Gershwin, Cole Porter and the rest of the gang? What body of our music has been more widely played, admired and memorized around the world than the jazz-flavored songs known as standards? And where did they come from? Listen...
...Kassima, 35, at a dance club, and she eventually invites him back to her house. Good sex leads to good conversation and then to love, an emotion that fills Kassima with terror and dread. Within a recent span of 10 months, both of her teenage sons were killed by gang violence in her Pittsburgh neighborhood and their father died of aids he contracted in prison. After she sees a gang member threaten Robert on a playground basketball court, Kassima decides that he is another doomed black male and tells him, "I've loved my last dead man. Can't take...
...strangest vengeance ever planned!" Touch of Evil also provides some fairly strange casting (yes, even beyond the choice of Heston as Mexican). Among the cameos dotting the border landscape are Marlene Dietrich as a gypsy, Zsa Zsa Gabor as a madam, and Mercedes McCambridge as a lesbian gang leader...
Nothing unusual until the gang plank stretched across the water and out stepped a black prisoner of the elite, white regime, a prisoner whose name would become synonymous with the struggle for equality and dignity for blacks and whites in South Africa...