Word: gangsterisms
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...Like virtually every Hong Kong singer, Tse made films. In his debut, Young and Dangerous: The Prequel, he revealed a complex screen persona, seductive and lonely, under that peekaboo mop of hair. He impressed critics as a gangster's prot?g? in Metade Fumaca and as the tyro gunman in Tsui Hark's Time and Tide. They called him a natural?not the next Andy Lau but the one and only Nicholas...
...villain in Bombay Dreams, the tinsel-and-tabla musical currently wowing London's West End, is J.R., The Big Boss, a gangster who controls the film industry and whose menacing mantra is: "I'll be watching. I always...
...just stars who are at risk, of course. In Bombay, in any stratum, survival often means keeping up with transient gangster bosses. Local toughs enslave the poor, taking a cut on everything from beggars to brothels. The thugs owe their power to their bosses, who call themselves Bhai, or brother, and live abroad in Pakistan, Dubai, Kenya, New Jersey?far beyond the reach of Indian police. From these lavish lairs the mobsters run their empires?and, if the Shakeel tapes are to be believed, they run up hefty bills with cell-phone calls to Bollywood royalty. Few stars can escape...
Chase was incredulous. "I thought, 'Oh, so it's O.K. we've been killing all these men for three years?'" he says. Tony's mistress, he adds, "was a woman who was dating a gangster, who was very unhappy and sick and wanted to be killed. And here she is spitting in his face, threatening to tell his wife, and guess what? He doesn't kill her. I could make the argument that it was unrealistic, that he should have killed her. He's killed people for a lot less...
...says. "These two huge events of a mythic size seem to form a span of history." Iain Banks thinks Dead Air slots into the second category, which examines the state of the world after the attacks. The story, about radio DJ Ken and his affair with a gangster's wife, begins with guests at a party merrily throwing random objects from the roof of a tall building. (Images of falling pervade the book.) Then comes the news from New York. Ken starts filling his radio airtime with political diatribes, on topics ranging from the Bush presidency to the Middle East...