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...Newman, adapting Richard Price's tough novel, has no use for dramatic efficiency or synthesis. Besides Stony's story, he tells in lavish detail the histrionic tales of the hero's psychotic mother (Lelia Goldoni), his anorectic kid brother (Michael Hershewe), his sexually troubled dad (Tony Lo Bianco) and his defeated uncle (Paul Sorvino). Newman, like Price, wants to make a larger sociological point about the breakdown of oldtime immigrant values in chaotic modern America, but he overstates the case. Bloodbrothers has so much narrative, most of it melodramatic, that every scene becomes a climax, every speech...
...DIED. Lo Jui-ching, 72, China's ex-Minister of Public Security under Mao Tse-tung throughout the 1950s, and later army chief of staff, who weathered political disgrace in the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s to make a remarkable comeback; of heart disease; in Peking. Lo was an early victim of the militaristic Red Guards, who led him to attempt a suicide jump from a besieged building. His literal fall from power broke only a leg but sidelined him until 1975, when he reappeared first with a minor military post, then on the Communist Party's Central...
Anna sings a poignant aria lo perso ogni illusione (I have lost all illusion...
...leadership. Always attuned to the needs of the rank-and-file, Stallone is also aware of the importance of "push," and consequently falls into bad company: he inadvertently sells his soul to the Mafia (in the guise of mobster Babe Milano, played in sleazy enough fashion by Tony Lo Bianco), and watches--along with millions of Americans who saw him do so well against Apollo Creed--as his self-created American dream grows, and then collapses in disarray, about...
...illegal activities. The cabinet, say FBI sources, was tucked away in a corner of a little-used public room of the building and only came to light when a low-level employee suggested that it was an eyesore and should be thrown out. But it was opened first-and lo, the much-sought-after evidence was inside. Justice Department officials find the FBI's story bizarre to the point of incredibility-one calls it a "fairy tale." The investigators believe that someone stashed the documents in the cabinet to hide them, that the "discovery" was actually a result...