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...universal suffrage": a Chief Executive chosen by the people and not a narrow electoral college; and for a fully elected legislature, not the mixed bag of members currently chosen by either popular vote or professional groups. Beijing, for its part, refuses to be swayed by what it regards as "mob rule," and is resolute in its intention to delay democracy in the former British colony...
...Grosse Pointe Blank,” Cusack plays a man haunted by his shady past. In this case, his character, Charlie and his associate Vic (Billy Bob Thornton, “Monster’s Ball”) have embezzled $2 million from a mob boss and are being tracked down by one of the boss’s hit men. Cusack as a hard-nosed killer/mob lawyer, without any of the neurotic charm of “Gross Pointe Blank,” is a bit hard to stomach. One wonders what happened to that fun, lovable...
...want a part of it? I said to some boys the other day, You can have the flash car and the blonde on your arm. But you've got to work for it." One of Moore's slogans, reproduced on a mobile-phone holder is leave the mob, get a job. Making the initial step into work for a young person from a troubled family is difficult, she says, especially with the peer pressure that comes from being different and taunts of "shame." "Become a role model, I say to them. The only 'shame' about...
...creators of Jersey Boys, librettists Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice and director Des McAnuff, went for Plan C. They had two ideas for freshening the material. One was to emphasize the Seasons' Italo-American roots, especially the connection to the New Jersey mob of founder Nick DeVito; this turns the show from a simple exercise in Frankie Valli nostalgia into "The Falsetto and the Sopranos." The other was to give each member of the group weight by letting him tell part of the story. Tommy says, "You ask four guys, you get four different versions." That's Jersey Boys...
...Jersey Boys hews to the bio-facts, and to the notion that any story about the Italian-American working class has to be about elaborate ritual behavior and ties with the mob. As in Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas, the Seasons' philandering is strictly regimented; one of them says, "You had your real family and your road family." As in Scorsese's Mean Streets, four guys hang out looking for the big score, and one of them get in trouble with a don. By the end of Act I, Tommy owes a half-million dollars to various nefarious gents. Recalling their...