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...understand is the big stick. Thus to handcuff the police is to liberate the thug. Of course, there is no excuse for the extreme brutalization of a Haitian immigrant at Brooklyn's 70th Precinct, but a citizen like me has far more chance of being viciously attacked by a hoodlum than by a rogue cop. I would rather take the risk and let the police make tough decisions. I trust the cops more than the crooks. JOHN B. CARPENTER Vernon Hills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 22, 1997 | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

...philosopher, dancing man, heroin addict--earned him an Academy Award nomination. And the picture earned the gratitude of that minority among us who think most contemporary movies, far from being too violent, are suffering a terminal case of the blahs. Now he's about to return as another unlikely hoodlum, at once incisive and dreamy, in Get Shorty, also a smart, shrewdly crafted movie, but one that's less dangerous, easier for everyone to like, than Pulp Fiction. There's every chance it will renew Travolta's Oscar eligibility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: TRAVOLTA FEVER | 10/16/1995 | See Source »

...their lyrics, also knows it's not so simple. Record companies routinely tell artists to remix their albums or record new tracks. Something like that happened two years ago at A&M records. Its president, Al Cafaro, heard a track intended for an album by the rap artist Intelligent Hoodlum. Bullet in the Brain was about killing a police officer. In the wake of the uproar over Ice-T's song Cop Killer, record executives everywhere were thinking twice. "It was nothing that we could be party to,'' says Cafaro of the song. "I told him I couldn't release...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOB DOLE'S VIOLENT REACTION | 6/12/1995 | See Source »

...unquestionable highlight of the production is Vikram Savkar, as Nicely-Nicely Johnson, a hoodlum with an insatiable appetite. Pulling everything from hot-dogs to strings of Mozzarella cheese from his coat pockets and stuffing them in his mouth in mid-sentence, Savkar imbues his character with an endearing and unbounded nervous energy...

Author: By Danielle E. Kwatinetz, | Title: Nice Guys (and Dolls) Finish First | 5/4/1995 | See Source »

...even on television, it is the real violence that is the most disturbing. A lynch-mob of police officers pummel Rodney King; a hoodlum smashes Reginald Denny's head with a brick. The ceaselessly repeated footage of these incidents is far worse than anything Hollywood could ever dream...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: Scaring Up A Simple Crisis | 10/30/1993 | See Source »

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