Word: gangsterisms
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DIED. JAMES ("Jimmy the Gent") BURKE, 64, clotheshorse, gangster and suspected mastermind of the $6 million Lufthansa heist of 1978; of cancer; in Buffalo, New York. Robert De Niro played Burke in the film Goodfellas...
After all, if guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns. Here, in fact, lies the solution to our problems. Instead of taking guns away from our nation's children, we should arm them. Yup, no big bad gangster is come after little Billy with a gun if he knows the tyke is sporting his own firepower. Mandatory handgun training should be added to our elementary schools' curricula. Peace through superior firepower. It won the cold war, you know...
...treated his friends. Yet TV viewers in the 1960s couldn't get enough of the neurosurgeon or of Edwards, who portrayed the combative Casey as the polar opposite of his ratings rival, the saintly Doctor Kildare (played by Richard Chamberlain). Prior to Ben Casey, Edwards was a B-movie gangster. After, he appeared in forgettable film and TV work, including the inevitable Return of Ben Casey...
Chungking has enough wit and pace to keep any mall crowd entertained. But it's the cinema verve of Wong's five films to date that makes them wholly his, whether he's doing gangster films (As Tears Go By, Fallen Angels), young-rebel dramas (Days of Being Wild) or kung-fu sagas (Ashes of Time, a film so beautifully bizarre it might be the first Martian-arts movie). The elements of his visual style: nightscapes (bars, beds, jukeboxes); sulky boys in white shirts; anomie punctuated by awful violence; murky lighting, as if scenes had been shot underwater and daubed...
...violence brief or lasting? Is TV as important a factor in fostering societal violence as economic poverty, bad schools and broken homes? And in any event, is it really possible--or desirable--to manage kids' exposure to a cultural environment that can never be entirely beneficial or benign? From gangster movies in the '30s to horror comics and rock 'n' roll in the '50s, pop culture has always been strewn with pitfalls for youngsters. Sheltering kids from such things is largely futile; most seem to survive in spite...