Word: gangsters
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...dirty rats. It seems like everyone has been after Director Brian De Palma, 42, since he started filming his updated version of the 1932 gangster classic Scarface. Instead of Paul Muni playing the real Italian immigrant, Al Capone, Al Pacino stars as Tony Montana, a fictional Cuban immigrant who is part of the modern cocaine trade in Florida. First the Cuban community in Miami tried to stop the film, claiming that it portrayed Hispanics in an unfavorable light. Next, De Palma reportedly got death threats from real-life mobsters, who were disinclined to have nationwide publicity. Now the $23.5 million...
...cover image was Stern at its low-down best: a man in a black gangster-style fedora aiming a gun out toward the reader. Inside the West German photoweekly was a pulse-quickening tale of intrigue: clandestine meetings of unrepentant Nazis, secret trips across a Communist border, bags of money tossed from one speeding car to another. What made Stern's investigation so notable, however, was that the magazine exposed its own management's gullibility in what it labeled "the biggest flop of German press history": the purchase, for $3.8 million, and publication of forged diaries purportedly written...
...another. When a Bronx break dancer named Crazy Legs took a recent trip to Chicago, wearing his hat at a precarious 45° angle, a local told him, "You better not wear your cap that way 'cause you could get hurt. Somebody could think you're a gangster." Still, hip hop has been downtown long enough that stylistic confusion like this is a little less frequent. Every Friday night, crews of rappers make the trip from The Bronx to the lower West Side of Manhattan, where they do their stuff at a roller disco called the Roxy...
...Bridges) cannot seem to get the attention of his pretty, dotty wife (Belinda Bauer). They have sex every Friday; in between she chats with her cats and practices ballet before her favorite companion, a full-length mirror. So Harry gives himself another life, in the guise of a swaggering gangster named Mack. Suddenly, love and the perfect swindle are his for the daring. This is a cynical fairy tale that must be told with buoyancy of spirit; Richert's gift is for earthbound madness. The best that can be said for Success is that it allowed him to complete...
...Montagne, a semi-retired hood known as "Le Flambeur" (the gambler), is a peculiar blend of American and French character. He speeds around the narrow streets of Montmartre in that most American symbol, the Cadillac convertible, and his outfit suggests the classic American gangster get-up: rumpled raincoat, dark suit, and perpetually tilted hat. And there is that peculiarly American sense of optimism and near-innocence that he earnestly exudes as he flips the ever-present coin in his pocket and wryly comments." I feel my luck coming back...