Word: gangsterisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...1930s, became obsessed with mass-media images. Decades before American Pop, and to the consternation of most critics, he made signery into scenery, recycling theater publicity photos, news shots (of the King with his horse trainer or Amelia Earhart being mobbed at the London airport) and even a gangster-movie poster of Edward G. Robinson. No American or European artist at the time used such sources with as much aplomb. Scorning British good taste and the Edwardian artist's role as the groom of new aristocrats -- a task he left to what he called the "wriggle and chiffon" school...
Life in the apartment changes when Treat decides to kidnap a well-dressed drunk, but Harold (Ted Kazanoff), also an orphan, turns out to be a professional gangster with a taste for whisky who has fled trouble in Chicago...
...about acting, role playing. That's probably one reason why so many rappers are going into movies. Cube made an impressive debut as a sympathetic, beer-drinking thug in the 1991 Boyz N the Hood, and in Trespass, coming out this week, he is a gun-toting gangster. Although he may play a criminal in movies and in his music, it's a front. Not that he doesn't have an ugly, heavy-metal misogynistic side that he really ought to jettison. But he does show indications of an underlying humanism. On his first solo album in 1990, AmeriKKKa...
Whitley is not one to kick back with the guys. Free time means family time: computer games with Susan, gangster movies with Sybil, history books. He speaks from experience when he says, "If you don't keep family in mind in this business, you lose them." A first marriage fell apart during his early years in corrections, when he had not yet learned to leave the strains of the job at the office. "I had a bad temper," he says. "I'd carry it home and let it rip." Now he refuses to discuss office problems at home...
...Boom Boom" Grossman (Al's brother), well-played by Alan King as the intimidating gangster-type, threatens Fabian. If Al dies during Fabian's boxing fiasco, so does Fabian (foreshadowing?). And Boom Boom already has good reason to follow through: He hates Fabian because of confrontations in their favorite pub, plus Fabian's dream poses a potential threat to his own boxing promotion corporation...