Word: gangsterisms
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...convert his confidence and pain into fearlessness and ambition. At a Los Angeles comedy club in 1989, his then girlfriend urged him to grab the open mic and perform (though it's hard to imagine he needed much persuading). "I went on as Cosby, Cosby the gangster," Foxx recalls, slipping instantly into long, uncoiled Bill Cosby sentences punctuated with profanity. "I did Tyson. I did Reagan. When I got on that stage I felt like all the elements were finally in place. It was so easy...
...replace it with boring, disingenuous stories of teen angst and disenchantment. BJ seems to realize that he can no longer pull this off in the first person, but the tricky mechanism he employs instead is about as ridiculous as 50 Cent making a concept record about being a gangster...
...find characters to root for (the gentle baker, the mincing tailor, the irascible landlady) and to hiss (the zither-playing assassins, the chorus line of dapper thugs, the mild-looking elderly gent they call The Beast). Chow not only casts himself on the wrong side, as a gangster wannabe, he also takes a supporting role and doesn't grab center screen until a climactic fight that follows his ascent into heaven to beg fight advice from the Buddha. The mouthy star wants to show he has as much skill behind the camera as in front of it, and Kung...
...gangster alights in a small town, meaning, somewhat reluctantly, to rob its bank. He takes a room at a reclusive schoolteacher's house. The recluse, naturally, becomes more gung-ho about the heist than does the professional...
...City. For the past four decades, the government endorsed the casino monopoly run by local tycoon Stanley Ho, 82, who failed to fully modernize even his flagship Hotel Lisboa. In the run-up to the 1999 handover, rival loan sharks inspired many of the turf wars in the gangster-ridden colony. Violence escalated to the point that in 1997 Macau's Secretary of Security reassured tourists that they were unlikely to get caught in the crossfire because the city had "professional killers who never miss their targets...