Word: gangsterisms
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...heat starts to mount, and Ryan starts having people killed. Meanwhile, his girlfriend is slowly learning that Tommy is responsible for the death of her husband, his best friend. Everybody who is anybody and still alive shows up in the final scene for a Christmas Eve shootout; the novice gangster who had idolized Ryan only to watch him waste his girlfriend, the grieving widow who now knew for sure that her lover had done in her man, the size 14 cop. And Ryan, he dies a death fit for a B-School hoodlum: "Alley Boy squeezed the trigger again...
...play tells of a Salvation Army lieutenant's wooing of a hardened but unhappy gangster. Their love causes Bill Cracker to fall afoul of the gang's sinister leader, the Fly, and results in Sister Lillian's expulsion in disgrace from the Army. Through a series of predictable and improbable coincidences, all are reunited and forgiven, and the two camps join hands to form an army of the poor to fight the "real enemy"--capitalism...
...lark. The biting, sardonic music of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht don't fit the sitcom plot. The play's as far from Brecht & Weill's Three penny Opera as a Keystone Kops film is from Little Caesar. Both plays recount the daring misdeeds and romantic entanglements of a gangster, but Threepenny Opera's sordid outlaws become Happy End's petty, bumbling bullies. Despite a denunciation of capitalism tacked on at the end, Happy End is insubstantial fluff, a romantic comedy expertly staged and acted by the American Repertory Theatre Company...
...Buenos Aires to see the relics of the War of Independence. The event is glorious; it stands in isolation; it is not related, in the textbooks or in the popular mind, to what immediately followed: the loss of law, the seeking out of the enemy, endless civil wars, gangster rule...
...break when Warner Bros, hired him as a $250-a-week scenarist for Rin Tin Tin. In four years he was head of production at 20 times that salary. Warner's Wunderkind brought dialogue to feature films (The Jazz Singer, 1927) and pioneered such realistic genres as the gangster and "working gal" films. In 1933 Zanuck and United Artists Head Joseph M. Schenck formed 20th Century Pictures, which soon merged with Fox Films. He produced such Oscar-winners as The Grapes of Wrath and All About Eve and copped three coveted Thalberg Awards. After converting the studio...