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...movie image of the Mob boss as a menacing, broad-shouldered man's man takes a hit in the new thriller Confidence, in which DUSTIN HOFFMAN portrays a quirky crime king of questionable sexuality. Hoffman's character, the King, hires a con man played by Ed Burns to perform a complex heist. "[The director, writer and I] tried to figure out how I could achieve this sense of a frightening character," Hoffman says, "and the idea of sexual ambiguity intrigued me." Hoffman also took some inspiration from choreographer Bob Fosse, with whom he worked on 1974's Lenny...
...film is anchored around lead character Jimmy “Fingers” Angelelli (Keitel), a classical pianist and debt collector for the mob. In the opening scenes, he ecstatically plays a Bach toccata in his New York apartment, then meets with his raspy-voiced mobster father for his next assignment. The film traces his descent into criminality as the divisions in his character lead to the destruction of his dreams...
...imagine those who might have perpetrated that first reported crime aren’t cowering in a bunker somewhere, contrite and fearful of being found out by an angry mob. They might even be amused that after all the hullabaloo they’ve caused around here, we still haven’t learned how to talk to one another. For while we were busy feeling self-righteous, we let them—and a good deal of our intellectual honesty—slip away...
...well as exiles, are jockeying to fill the vacuum. The U.S. has to be careful. It's just possible that the worst thing Washington could do is handpick a winner, who would be tainted as an American puppet. The dangers of that were apparent in Najaf, where the mob murder of a pro-American Shi'ite cleric last week showed how lethal such an image...
...Muslims in the south or within the thousand pockets of hate that a merciless regime left behind? In Najaf a meeting that the U.S. arranged between rival Shi'ite clerics to pave a road to reconciliation ended with both being hacked to death by an angry mob. In Kirkuk a Saddam loyalist who surrendered to Kurdish fighters was beaten unconscious with rifle butts, shot, then soaked in gasoline and set on fire...