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...film, a stylized musical set in Las Vegas on Independence Day, recounts the affairs of a junkyard owner (Frederic Forrest) with two women: a travel agent (Teri Garr) and a circus star (Nastassia Kinski). Coppola calls Heart "a lounge operetta, pretty and sweet. I've made too many gangster and soldier movies. I like fantasy and fable-it's a large part of me." It is also a huge part of the film's budget: Dean Tavoularis' dazzling sets cost more than $6 million to build. The film went $11 million over the original budget, shooting...
...witnessed an illegal payoff by his New Jersey construction firm to a corrupt union official in 1977. In addition, TIME has learned that investigators are looking into the possibility of perjury in Donovan's testimony at his confirmation hearing, when he claimed he had never met New Jersey Gangster Salvatore (Sally Bugs) Briguglio...
...that may show that Donovan's company had been doing business with a most unsavory gangster when it was dealing with Masselli and that Masselli associated with racketeers and murderers in the Mob. But it certainly does not demonstrate that Donovan had any personal knowledge of Masselli's criminal connections. The only mention of Donovan in the FBI eavesdropping that has been acknowledged so far by the Justice Department seems innocent enough. Masselli is heard telling his son Nat that he planned to attend some type of unexplained "affair," requiring admission tickets and an airplane trip, with "Ronnie...
...Caliban of the concrete wilderness, a tough-minded, quick-fisted, devilishly engaging city sprite, the first such in movie history and still, a half-century later, the best. One minute he would be walking the dark side of the mean streets, personifying the gangster as a tragically overreaching hero (The Public Enemy); the next he was to be found quickstepping on his jaunty dancer's pins along the sunny side, tapping out a dandy Yankee Doodle up tune. But it made no difference where he traded slick jabs and smart-mouthed gibes, for he always made it clear that...
Some great figures were caught by the camera before their legends bronzed. A young Senator John F. Kennedy, suffering a Denver political breakfast, looks warily, and even dubiously, at the surrounding petitioners and sycophants. Other subjects were all too clearly shaping their own legends. Gangster Albert Anastasia must have commandeered a photographer's studio for a week to achieve his straw-hatted, natty, top-lit look, which is that of a matinee idol portraying a gangster. Perhaps the best pure photography in the show is a picture of Robert Louis Stevenson. Ordinarily depicted as a dour, moody presence, Stevenson...