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Side Notes. Again like many jazz musicians-Thelonius Monk, for one -Cassavetes is most interested in the pauses and side notes everyone else passes over. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie is another of the director's blitzed meditations on life at the edge. Cosmo Vitelli (Ben Gazzara) owns a strip joint on Sunset Boulevard and a debt of dishonor. No sooner has he finished paying off the mortgage on the Crazy Horse West than he runs up an unmanageable IOU at a Santa Monica gambling joint. To pay the debt, the gamblers put this proposition to Cosmo: snuff...
...being spoiled, and that car is a treat to ride around in," allowed Actor Ben Gazzara after driving to the Chicago premiere of Capone in Big Al's own Cadillac limousine. The six-ton, bulletproof car, built in 1928 and later used by President Franklin Roosevelt, had been specially shipped in for the premiere from its permanent display place in Niagara Falls, Canada. "I'd love to have it for city driving," quipped Gazzara, who came to the screening decked out in a Capone-style pin-stripe suit, full-length rabbit coat, and half of the extra...
...like characters from a Keystone-Cops-Meet-C.B. Demille short. All of which made me doubt that this Italian TV documentary on da Vinci's life would be any good. I was wrong. This has so far been an excellent series, and even the dubbing (by suave Ben Gazzara) doesn't grate. Ch. 53, 9 p.m. 1 hour...
...spent $2.5 million on this adaptation of Leon Uris's novel about a writer who accuses a successful doctor of participating in Nazi war crimes. With Leslie Caron, Ben Gazzara, and Joseph Wiseman. (This is part one. Part two is Tuesday at 8:30 p.m.) Ch. 5,9 p.m. Color, 3 hours...
...Gazzara plays Erie superbly, with a banty feistiness that keeps him more or less on the livable side of terror. As he says, "If every guy along Broadway who kids himself was to drop dead, there wouldn't be nobody left...