Word: kidding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There are startling similarities with the previous cases: the kid in Pearl tortured animals too and, like Kinkel, went through a "Goth" phase, dressing in black and voicing grim imaginings; Kinkel had a fascination with guns to match that of the Jonesboro boys; like the young man charged in West Paducah, he seemed possessed of a death wish. When he was finally wrestled to the ground and disarmed, Kinkel pleaded with his captors, "Just shoot me." But if these parallels are merely coincidental, others are not easily dismissed. Once again the murderous drama features a troubled youth and a community...
...were persuaded to do the film by Chris Lee, now Columbia's president of production but then head of its TriStar division (both owned by Sony). The partners put on hold a movie they had in the works, dubbed Project X, about ("I kid you not," says Devlin) a giant meteor on a collision course with Earth. Lee was also the most persistent of the studio execs in persuading Toho to lend out its famous monster. Still, when he saw Tatopoulos' model just hours before it was unveiled for the Toho board of directors in Tokyo, Lee was stunned...
Sinatra's attitude about all this was simple enough. He was responsible to the world for his music, but for his life answerable only to himself, and to hell with the rest of you. There was, all through him, a kind of animating anger, an Italian street-kid swagger that made such good cover for his black-and-blue soulfulness that it was easy, especially when he was living high or mouthing off, to take it at face value. But as much as anything else, that attitude was a dodge, barbed wire for the unwary, protecting his private preserve...
...done with little fuss and less time, and often wouldn't hang around for the other actors in a scene to finish up. But in a film career that spanned some 40 years, he gave an impressive number of unforgettable performances. On the Town had good sport casting the kid who used to jump the Hoboken ferry to sneak into Manhattan. From Here to Eternity, which won him an Oscar, put his stalled career back into overdrive and led, through rumor and myth, to a memorable subplot in The Godfather...
Over the years, more than a few promoters have thought, "Hey, here's a good-lookin' kid who can carry a tune; maybe he can be the next Frank Sinatra." More than a few were wrong. Singers could be very talented and still not be Sinatra. Here's how a few measured on Frank's Ring-A-Ding Rating...