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...enthusiasm could be contagious. In 1994, Toronto Film Festival audiences gave a rapturous reception to the films of top Tamil auteur Mani Rathnam, including Nayakan (1987), a terrific gangster epic in the Godfather style, and Roja (1992), a terrorist Love Story. The song lyrics alone could easily attract camp followers: imagine an American star crooning, "Your sexy appearance triggers procreation in the earth...Life's a cactus without you," or "On your beautiful body, sweat never tastes salty...
...troublemaking daughter Rocky. Though the book switches voices and perspectives, for the most part its focuses on Rocky. She is a pugnacious, tough-talking sort. She loses her virginity to a rock-'n'-roll rebel named Elvis Chang, co-founds a rock band with him named "The Gangster of Love," and carries on a years-long flirtatious friendship with a bisexual painter-photographer named Keiko. Hagedorn?s first novel, "Dogeaters," was widely acclaimed and was nominated for the National Book Award. "The Gangster of Love," says Farley, should firmly establish her reputation as a writer of considerable talent...
...highlights in the movie ironically come from the comedy provided by Robert Pastorelli as Johnny C., a witness Arnold has saved and who insists upon helping him out. Best-known for his role as Eldin or "that painter guy" on "Murphy Brown," Pastorelli plays the highly-principled ex-gangster Johnny C. with quality humor that is a far cry from the cutesy punch-lines of most action films. Calling upon hilarious motley trio of relatives and friends to help Arnie out, Pastorelli offers amusing false bravado as a welcome alternative to Arnold's superstar self-assuredness...
STRIPTEASE (June 28). It's not Showgirls, the trailer is at pains to tell you; it's Get Shorty: a slapsticky gangster comedy, but with plucky, bosomy single mom Demi Moore. And without Travolta. Burt Reynolds may steal scenes as a randy Congressman, but that's not why Columbia paid Moore $12.5 million for the film. Why do we get that sinking feeling...
...Treasure Island, Bill Bennett of Circus Circus--Stupak is something of a wild card, a joke or a curse, a relic of the days when the town was run by guys whose middle name was "the." He enjoys banter about guns, was almost cast in Martin Scorsese's gangster epic Casino, and still refers to Mob characters like "Lefty" Rosenthal and Tony (the Ant) Spilotro as "the boys...