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...skipped to London, where Fox production chief Darryl Zanuck let him shoot the Brit-noir Night and the City. It stars Richard Widmark (who died, also in his 90s, a week before Dassin) as an American tout aiming for the big score, then fleeing from its consequences. In his goon period, with that weird smile (his upper lip raised as if by invisible fish hooks), and outfitted in a checkered jacket so loud it practically barks, Widmark is the perfect sucker in a nightscape made for entrapment. The titanic figure of night-club owner Francis L. Sullivan is just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Master of the Heist | 4/6/2008 | See Source »

...gentleman was a goon. Richard Widmark, whose death on Monday was announced by his wife Susan Blanchard, had one of the grisliest, most electrifying debuts in movie history. In the 1947 Kiss of Death, he played the psychopathic Tommy Udo, maniacally giggling as he pushed a wheelchair-bound old lady down the cellar stairs to her death. This sort of violence, explosive and explicit, was startling in early postwar films, as were the insane delight glinting in the killer's eye, the sexual thrill in his catarrhal voice. But that was just acting - glorious acting - for Widmark was a well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Richard Widmark: Screen Goon, Real World Gent | 3/26/2008 | See Source »

...work of Ijaz ul-Hassan, famous as much for his activism as for his art. Imprisoned for his political activities under President Zia ul-Haq, Hassan paints scenes of street violence and government-sanctioned thuggery as stark and bold as tabloid stills. A View Through a Window shows a goon with a gun and blood-spattered clothes looming over a corpse, watched by respectful policemen. Another Madonna, in which a wailing mother huddles over her three dead sons, their faces daubed in the emerald green of the Pakistani flag, marries a classic theme with a scene that might easily have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistani Art: Under the Gun | 11/21/2007 | See Source »

...about the work. You become a worker.”And Brolin has worked. This past year, he has acted in four films, and has written and directed a three-hour play. That jock older brother from “The Goonies” seems to have left the Goon Docks for good...

Author: By Bram A. Strochlic, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Brolin Reveals 'Country' Secrets | 11/9/2007 | See Source »

...take your house fealty to such obnoxious levels? Part of enjoying your Harvard experience is embracing its innate positives, not the reasons why you’re so much better than everyone else. By all means, display your House pride boldly, but don’t be an insufferable goon...

Author: By David L. Golding, Jillian J. Goodman, Emma M. Lind, Kyle L. K. Mcauley, and Nathaniel S. Rakich | Title: Playing House | 3/21/2007 | See Source »

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