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...bloody, entertaining tragicomedy that functions both as tabloid journalism (The Rise and Fall of a Drug King) and as cautionary fable. Tony Montana may be exterminated by the hired guns of a rival narcotics boss, but he is effectively dead long before that, fallen not into the gutter but facedown in a candy mountain of cocaine. He had broken the crime lord's first commandment-Don't get high on your own supply-and become a zombie before the first machine-gun blast ever...
...Nolte discovered that the real Hepburn was every bit as feisty as her on-screen persona. The actor, who is also not unlike his swaggering on-screen self, turned up half an hour late for filming one day. Snapped Hepburn: "I hear you've been drunk in every gutter in town." Nolte was not shriveled. "She is a legend," he says. "But once you get past that, she's just a kind of cranky old broad...
...thus in part the testament of an old man passing ironic judgment on a century that finally learned to accommodate him. If the book offers any shocks, they are of the boomerang variety: the iconoclast at twilight is in danger of becoming a moralist. He condemns "the proliferation of gutter words" in modern literature; he criticizes the excesses of his anarchist comrades in the Spanish Civil War; he expresses relief in the waning of his sexual desire ("It's as if I've finally been relieved of a tyrannical burden"). It would seem that the only...
Certainly, by comparison to reportage in France and Italy, West Germany's coverage is more factual, if not always sufficiently careful or thorough; it is also less polemic, and less acutely polarized between journals of highbrow analysis and sensational gutter tabloids. There is a stronger tradition of investigative reporting in West Germany than in neighboring countries, though far less than in the U.S. West German reporters were encouraged to develop American-style standards of accuracy and objectivity by U.S. occupation forces in the 1940s and 1950s. Moreover, many of today's senior journalists were educated partly...
...star, Gerard Depardieu, had lambasted the film even before it played the festival: "The moon is in the gutter, but the movie is in the sewer." At the most vituperative Cannes press conference in memory, Beineix, flanked by his female leads Nastassia Kinski and Victoria Abril, gave as good as he got. "They are called moving pictures, not text," he argued. "My film is a symphony of images...