Word: gangsterisms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...parts in three movies: Spike Lee's film; The Lemon Sisters, starring Diane Keaton; and The Two Jakes, the sequel to Chinatown that features Jack Nicholson as star and director. Nicholson shot around Blades' music tour in order to nab him for the role of Mickey Nice, a Jewish gangster from Los Angeles' Boyle Heights section. "He brought a lot of energy and good acting instincts to the role," reports Nicholson. "I think the result is fabulous." Blades and his band Son del Solar (Sound of the Tenement) are in the midst of completing three new records for the Elektra...
...control statutes were rushed into place. Criminals, understandably, have illegal ways of obtaining guns. Antigun laws -- the waiting periods, background checks, handgun bans, et al. -- only harass those who obey them. Why should an honest citizen be deprived of a firearm for sport or self-defense when, for a gangster, obtaining a gun is just a matter of showing up on the right street corner with enough money...
...composer who drives a Cadillac. But he has worked hard for his popularity, and he still does. His tenth string quartet premiered last year, and Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax will tour four cities with his cello-and-piano sonata in May. Casino Paradise (an opera about a gangster "that's more or less like a musical") premieres in Philadelphia in April. Other coming works: a "baby opera" about Mozart's librettist Lorenzo da Ponte; a song cycle of poems by American women for Marilyn Horne; and a clarinet concerto for Stanley Drucker and the New York Philharmonic...
Crime Story (NBC, 1986-88). Producer Michael Mann brought a flashy film-noir style to TV in Miami Vice, then perfected it in this brooding, operatic underworld drama. And Anthony Denison, as gangster Ray Luca, created the TV villain who, along with J.R. Ewing, loomed as the decade's most memorable...
Billy Bathgate by E.L. Doctorow (1989). A boy growing up in the Bronx during the Depression is effectively adopted by Dutch Schultz, a notorious gangster. The hero's vision of criminal life, at once glamorous and corrupting, amounts to a privileged education. This story of a young man's coming of age already seems a part of the American grain...