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Prince's new album is really an old album dating back to 1987 and resurrected to fulfill contractual obligations. It reveals just how ahead of his times Prince was in anticipating "the decidedly unlovesexy anger and violence in the gangster rap of the 1990s," says TIME Music Critic David Thigpen. Of the music, Thigpen notes that "the Black Album is a bleak tour through an American ghetto of fractured homes and misogynistic, rootless young men." And, while the anger in the music will probably hamper its success, it is nevertheless "a rich and complex record...
...Bullets Over Broadway," is, however, generally a success, and Cusack is generally quite good. He plays David Shayne, an aspiring playwright in 1920's New York, whose second play will be staged on Broadway, thanks to a deal made by a respected producer (Jack Warden) with the gangster Nick Valente (Joe Viterelli). The deal is this: Nick will bankroll the play in return for a role for his girlfriend, Olive (Jennifer Tilly...
...wild card at their rehearsal table is Olive Neal (Jennifer Tilly), chorine, ineptly aspiring thespian and gangster's moll. Nick, her mobster lover (Joe Viterelli), is backing the show, in which, nasal accent and all, she is supposed to play a psychiatrist. Nick supplies Olive with a bodyguard. Try to cut one of her lines and you have a hood named Cheech (playwright-actor Chazz Palminteri) to deal with...
...young teenager, Blue is Cosmopolitan Pictures' biggest draw. She yearns to play adult roles, bad girls, and off the set has an affair with a gangster named Jacob King, who is murdered in his Las Vegas casino. Then she disappears and doesn't surface until 40 years later, when she is discovered, a few dollars from dead broke, living in a run-down trailer park in Hamtramck, Michigan...
...front of Wishman's camera. Despite the fact that Wishman has said Chesty Morgan was the hardest person she ever worked with on a film, she made "Double Agent" because Chesty's first film, "Deadly Weapons" did quite well. In "Deadly Weapons," Chesty plays the widow of a gangster who seeks revenge on the murder ring who killed her husband. After having sex with the men, she smothers them between her breasts. Like her first film, "Double Agent 73" does not let us forget (as if it would be possible) that Chesty is just that. She plays double agent "Jane...