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Once again we've come to the time of year when you don't want to be a turkey. Those glory days of turkey-hood have long ago passed, sad to say. Back in the 1780s, the wild turkey almost became our national symbol; now it's just a symbol of ridicule and distilled spirits...
...tough and curt and not overly smart, but quickly becomes the most interesting character in the film (largely due to Palmenteri's fabulous performance), a moody genius with a big gun. The intelligence of the script is particularly apparent here: rather than trying to transform Cheech from a hood to an artist, Allen is content to make him an artistic hood, which Palminteri plays to the hilt...
...Tilly), chorine, ineptly aspiring thespian and gangster's moll. Nick, her mobster lover (Joe Viterelli), is backing the show, in which, nasal accent and all, she is supposed to play a psychiatrist. Nick supplies Olive with a bodyguard. Try to cut one of her lines and you have a hood named Cheech (playwright-actor Chazz Palminteri) to deal with...
...gangland wisdom came from a life of movie watching (he worked for five years in a video store). "I've seen what I've seen, and I've met the people I've met," he says flirtatiously. "I've been in weird situations. I'm not a hood, but I've seen fringe things here and there." And what he sees, he translates into sharp words, telling gestures, explosive images...
FILM The success of movies by black directors like Spike Lee (Do the Right Thing) and John Singleton (Boyz in the Hood) proved that black-oriented, mainstream movies can be profitable. Less commercial black filmmakers like Julie Dash (Daughters of the Dust) and Charles Burnett (To Sleep with Anger) continue to have difficulty raising money, but they produce substantial work nevertheless. One such movie is Haile Gerima's electrifying underground hit Sankofa, in which a young black woman is transported back in time to experience the horrors of slavery. Gerima, a professor of film at Washington's predominantly black Howard...