Word: helling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wrote Scarface basically as an adieu to cocaine. It had beaten the hell out of me, but I got my revenge by writing about it. I conceived the picture in terms of a comic opera. Some of my friends called it Scarfucci. I modeled it on Richard III. Brian De Palma, who directed it, has a slower camera than I do, so some of the script had to be cut. But I was very pleased with the movie. It's got me a lot of free champagne all over the world from gangsters who ask me how I know...
...decorated Viet Nam veteran. His was among the first units to splash ashore there in 1965. Over the next decade, he saw buddies die at such hot spots as Hue and Foxtrot Ridge, and he was wounded three times by rockets and mortar fire. "We fought a hell of a war," he declares, "and until now, Hollywood didn't give a damn about getting it right...
...other war, they would have made movies about us too. Dateline: Hell!, Dispatch from Dong Ha, maybe even A Scrambler to the Front . . . But Viet Nam is awkward, everybody knows how awkward, and if people don't even want to hear about it, you know they're not going to pay money to sit there in the dark and have it brought up." So wrote Michael Herr in Dispatches, published in 1977, a year before the first spate of Viet Nam dramas. (The mid-'60s had offered a couple of World War II wheezes disguised as topical films: A Yank...
...horrors of his season in hell, Stone admits he got what he went for, as a budding artist ravenous for material in the raw: "I saw combat at the ground level. I saw people die. I killed. I almost was killed. Almost immediately I realized that combat is totally random. It has nothing to do with heroism. Cowardice and heroism are the same emotion -- fear -- expressed differently. And life is a matter of luck. Two soldiers are standing two feet apart. One gets killed, the other lives. I was never a religious person -- I was raised Protestant, the great compromise...
...nicknames of many older pro football teams enshrine civic boosterism (Packers, Steelers, Oilers), newer names include most of the violent ones. The United States Football League produced the Invaders, Maulers, Gamblers, Gunslingers and Outlaws. As one irritated analyst put it, this group "sounds like the roster from a Hell's Angels' convention...