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...just come off of another type of action film, The Departed, which included lots of gunplay. How does an African mercenary's training differ from that of a Boston gangster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A with Leonardo DiCaprio | 11/22/2006 | See Source »

...worked with Russell Crowe on Gladiator, on this film and on your next, American Gangster. Is he more puppy dog or pain in the neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Ridley Scott | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

...Vietnam POW Michael Santini is called back to Washington to take his place and play the hero (unsurprisingly, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., gives the book a glowing endorsement). A Russian Mafia boss kills his president and sets his sights on the throne. He colludes with a brainy German gangster and a rogue Chinese general who’s planning a coup and may have tortured Santini in Vietnam. And did I mention the inhumanly beautiful Israeli assassin with whom Santini is romantically involved...

Author: By Patrick R. Chesnut, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Politicans Can Rumble and Romance, But They Can’t Write | 11/1/2006 | See Source »

...scene straight out of a Hong Kong gangster flick. On a November morning in 2002, local property tycoon Harry (Cigar) Lam was enjoying breakfast in his usual spot at Luk Yu Tea House, a Hong Kong institution famed for its tasty dim sum and indifferent service. At about 9 a.m., a nearby diner paid for his meal, walked up to Lam's table and killed him with a gunshot to the head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Murder for the Movies | 10/29/2006 | See Source »

...Dramatic murders are a staple of Hong Kong's courts and media. Last year, the city was mesmerized by the trial of Nancy Kissel, an American expat convicted of drugging her banker husband with a poisoned milkshake and bludgeoning him to death. But despite its gangster lore and its flair for B-movie-style killings, the city of 7 million has one of the world's lowest homicide rates. Murders plummeted from 102 in 1997 to just 34 last year, in part perhaps because the city's gangs have shifted some of their focus to southern China. "Occasionally you have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Murder for the Movies | 10/29/2006 | See Source »

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