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David Caruso should not have left "N.Y.P.D. Blue." His first movie after quitting the wildly-successful, year-old television series was a remake of the 1947 gangster film "Kiss of Death." Nicholas Cage stole the movie from the light-weight Caruso as deftly and totally as Richard Widmark stole the original from the feather-weight Victor Mature. But having your first movie stolen by Nicholas Cage is not such a defeat. If your second movie is "Jade," however then you are in real trouble...
Decked out in gangster regalia and bimbo attire, the Cabotians preened and strutted the two hours away, smiling at their friends in the audience and playing to the crowd. The show, while perhaps not musically invincible, was entertaining--precisely because it was so laid back...
...Some Like It Hot," a gangster-era comedy directed by Billy Wilder and scripted by Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond, features Lemmon's best performance ever. Lemmon and co-star Tony Curtis play a pair of Chicago musicians who witness the infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre. The Mob wants the two permanently silenced and the musicians decide to leave Chicago any way they...
...town infatuated with scuzzy strippers and sleazy comics, Las Vegas today is a leading family-resort destination, with theme parks, water parks and high-tech arcades in nearly every new hotel. And where families go, wholesome entertainment follows. That's one reason the Flamingo Hilton, the house that gangster Bugsy Siegel built, hired the Rockettes, whose high kicking and higher kitsch remind us that their brand of dance is as much a part of 20th century culture as anything choreographed by Balanchine or Berkeley...
...LIKE A DUCK by Bruce Cutler (from remarks to a reporter on client John Gotti) If you look like a duck Quack like a duck Walk like a duck And the government calls you a duck Gee You must be a duck So if the government calls you a gangster Gee You must be a gangster...