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...rookie does fine. He leaves the plot propulsion to the Scorsese grads--Keitel as a mob-controlled cop covering up a killing, De Niro as a flinty internal-affairs detective on Keitel's trail, Liotta as a good-bad cop--while he watches, listens, recedes into the wallpaper. Mining his own insecurity to mirror Freddy's, Stallone dominates these scenes with his poignant passivity. The sweet sadness in his eyes reveals something rare in modern films: how much pain and insult a decent man with zero self-esteem can endure. Of course, he and we know he's the hero...
...riot gear. They arrested more than 100 cyclists, including some peaceable ones who were just trying to point out that the city needs more bike lanes; their bikes were confiscated. The normally unflappable Mayor Willie Brown, a world-class deal broker, seemed ready to snap. Critical Mass, a leaderless mob that refers to itself as an idea rather than an organization (and has manifestations in a dozen other cities), had got his goat by having no one for him to cut a deal with. Willie doesn't do Zen. He threatened to keep both the bikes and the riders locked...
...middle of a guided tour: 30 or 40 Mormon teens sat on the floor of a second-story room and listened to a husky, white-haired elder narrate the tragedy of Smith's last hours. The elder, using a walking stick to imitate the rifles of the mob, enacted the death scene with stagey gusto, but when the bloody climax came--Smith's disastrous fall from the building--he grew somber. "I personally think that when Joseph fell out that window, the Savior was right there to catch him." There were tears in his eyes now and more tears...
CONVICTED. VINCENT GIGANTE, 69, a.k.a. "the Chin," bizarrely inventive Mob boss who tried to elude prosecution by claiming insanity, often roaming the streets in a bathrobe; of racketeering and conspiracy to commit murder; in New York City. He was acquitted on seven counts of murder...
...into the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, which sold out when Salvatore ("Sammy the Bull") Gravano came out of hiding and sang baritone last week. The show spills onto the streets of Greenwich Village, where a woman in a sun hat looks up at the high-rise where reputed Mob boss Vincent ("the Chin") Gigante, the Oddfather who roamed the streets in his bathrobe, was her most famous neighbor...