Word: mobbed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MILLER'S CROSSING and GOODFELLAS. A pair of aces about the Mob. The first film, from Joel and Ethan Coen, has gangsters of the '20s spitting out aphorisms and wrestling with ethics. The second, Martin Scorsese's bullet train of a cautionary comedy, shows the Mafia in its rapacious decline. Both make offers no moviegoer should refuse...
...Blue Velvet. Yes, it's different, but the same kind of different; Lynch could no longer shock by being shocking. Many critics figured they had solved the mystery of his visual style and thematic preoccupations. Next mystery, please. By August, when the film opened in the U.S., the Lynch mob was more like a lynch mob...
...Beverly Hills mansion last year, their faces blown off and bodies mangled by 14 blasts from two 12-gauge shotguns. But the story didn't make the cover of PEOPLE until seven months later, when the suspects were finally arrested. They turned out to be not a couple of Mob gunmen, as first thought, but the Menendezes' swaggering sons: Lyle, 22, who left Princeton after being caught cheating; and Erik, 19, a writer of poems and screenplays who tried unsuccessfully to make it as a pro tennis player...
...turns out that investigators never really believed the Mob rubout story, on one hand: the murder was too messy, and hit men rarely kill the wife of their target. On the other hand, if the brothers' greed was the motive, they would have had to kill both parents to inherit their $14 million estate. Other pieces soon fell into place: investigators found a screenplay that Erik wrote about a young man who murders his very rich parents for their money. A home- computer disk thought to contain the father's revised will was mysteriously erased. Far from appearing crushed with...
CINEMA: Once again Hollywood is married to the Mob...