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Word: goodfellas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reborn. Ideal material for Martin Scorsese, as he proved in The Last Temptation of Christ, his mean-streets-of-Jerusalem story of a tormented Jesus. By contrast, Buddhist texts are static and serene, antidramatic. And the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet is the ultimate good fellow, not a goodfella. So what can Scorsese find to make his own in KUNDUN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: DECK THE PLEX WITH TARANTINO | 12/22/1997 | See Source »

That was then--maybe. Now Giuliani gets in trouble not by bending but by being too prickly and righteous; anyway, this former crusading D.A. would be the last politician on earth to take a goodfella as a bedfellow. But movies are still in love with the romance of corruption. They need to believe the gaudy worst about government: that Inside is the dirtiest, most divine place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: IT'S GOOD TO BE THE MAYOR! | 2/19/1996 | See Source »

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