Word: gangsterized
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First of all, Bugsy Malone is a gangster movie, done in the vintage style. So far so good...
After playing a twelve-year-old hooker in Taxi Driver, a child murderess in Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane and a gangster's moll in Bugsy Malone, Actress Jodie Foster is finally cleaning up her act. Her new role: a tomboy heiress in a Walt Disney kid flick titled Candleshoe. Now on location at Stratford-upon-Avon, Foster has been skate boarding for fun and profiting from her work on the set with Co-Stars David Niven and Helen Hayes. "I don't feel comfortable working with children," pipes Foster, 13, who appeared with some...
...approved legislation to break up the Arizona dog racing monopoly, controlled in part by Emprise. A special prosecution fund providing $100,000 to investigate Bolles' murder is assured of speedy approval by the legislature. The Arizona Republic vowed to intensify its crusade against "the slimy hand of the gangster and the pitiless atrocities of the terrorist...
When John Cassavetes makes a gangster movie, you can be sure only that it will be like no other. A film maker of vaunting, demanding individuality, Cassavetes is like a jazz soloist, an improviser who tears off on wild riffs from a basic, familiar melody. When Cassavetes is really cooking, even the moments that are awkward and forced can become electric...
...book progresses, stereotypes of pale children, bearded old men and worried mothers in babushkas step aside for anarchists who gather on Yom Kippur to dance, eat and sing La Marseillaise "and other hymns against Satan." Gangster Arnold Rothstein makes it all the way from Hester Street to F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby as the underworld character Meyer Wolfsheim. Outside New York, Jewish peddlers roam the South, and Jewish farmers plow as far away as Oregon. There are even Jewish cowboys of a sort. Writing home from Kansas, one incipient blazing saddler complains that...