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...DiCAPRIO: He was a composite character, a representative of the Irish immigrant forming a gang, trying to best adapt his surroundings and survive in this underbelly of society. We wanted to maintain this historical significance, not to make a bald statement about the time but to give a picture of what it would be like. On the other side you have this coming-of-age story, the transition of this young man whose ultimate goal is to avenge his father's death. So, we wanted him to represent the plight of the Irish immigrant, and what it was like...
...event of the Draft Riots of 1863. In most movie epics - "The Birth of a Nation," "Gone With The Wind," even "Pearl Harbor" - the characters have a small but crucial connection with the huge event, the war. Here the Draft Riots happen independently of the antagonism between Amsterdam's gang and Bill's gang, don't they...
...week of the NFL's regular season? At the start of their 4 p.m. ET home game against the Packers, the Jets weren't sure a win would even get them into the playoffs. Three hours later, they were AFC East champs with a postseason home game. And with Gang Green playing its best ball the only time it matters - at the end - it's been hard to find a free seat on the bandwagon. Colts QB Peyton Manning is going to the Pro Bowl again, but Jets counterpart Chad Pennington is getting most of the ink this week, after...
WorldCom has undergone what court-appointed monitor and former SEC chairman Richard Breeden calls "a steam cleaning from top to bottom," getting rid of virtually every member "of the gang that couldn't shoot straight," including practically the entire finance department. So far, at least, the nation's second largest long-distance company has been able to hold on to the bulk of its big, valuable corporate and government accounts, though many such customers are exploring other options. It has also grabbed some local residential customers from the Baby Bells, reached a partial settlement with the SEC and built...
...maybe Scorsese was too stubborn to give up a project he had nurtured since 1970, when the epic was still the genre du jour and, on Belfast's mean streets, Protestants and Catholics were spilling one another's blood in a replay of the New York City Irish-Anglo gang wars of the 1860s, which Scorsese was itching to dramatize. Then Star Wars changed the landscape of the epic from our own martial planet to a galaxy far, far away. Today when audiences go into the past, they want fantasy. They're not looking to pay for history lessons...