Word: hoodlum
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...Hollywood veterans whose creative credits number Pretty Woman, City Slickers and A League of Their Own (plus, it must be admitted, Laverne and Shirley). For that matter, most do not have TV hunk Tony Danza (Taxi, Who's the Boss?), making his New York stage debut as a hoodlum. (For important plot reasons, he is supposed to be about 27, but Danza looks a dozen years older...
They call it cyberpunk, a late-20th century term pieced together from CYBERNETICS (the science of communication and control theory) and PUNK (an antisocial rebel or hoodlum). Within this odd pairing lurks the essence of cyberpunk culture. It's a way of looking at the world that combines an infatuation with high-tech tools and a disdain for conventional ways of using them. Originally applied to a school of hard-boiled science-fiction writers and then to certain semi-tough computer hackers, the word cyberpunk now covers a broad range of music, art, psychedelics, smart drugs and cutting-edge technology...
...people, call them fags," he says. "But my homeys weren't down with that, so now I lay off." He has also left the most extreme, racist gangster rap to the likes of Ice Cube. Instead, he now focuses his energy on what he calls "intelligent hoodlum" material. Quincy Jones says Ice-T's work has "the best poetic quality of any rapper, and the strongest narrative I've ever heard...
...onetime boxer and lifelong hoodlum who dropped out of school at 16, Gravano had plenty to say about the workings of the Gambino family. Until their arrest in December 1990, Gravano was the don's right hand and heir apparent. On FBI surveillance tapes, Gotti was frequently heard speaking of his love for Sammy and once told his men, "Soon as anything happens to me, I'm off the streets, Sammy is the acting boss." As the man who controlled the Gambino business interests in the New York City construction trade, Gravano claimed to have passed along to Gotti...
...design, the grapefruit-in-your-face impact of most gangster classics. But this is superior filmmaking, as handsomely conceived and realized as Dick Tracy, but darker, more resonant. It has a grace and a gravity rare just now in American films. Oh, and Willis, as a high-living hoodlum, is one dandy dandy...