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...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...
...real reason for the spate of Mob movies is that a few powerful artists want to make them. Directors love the form because its speed and anarchy spoke to them as young moviegoers. More important, it allows them to confront, in code, the awful ethnic schisms of American life; Italian vs. Wasp stands in for black vs. white. Actors love Mob movies because, now that the western is dead, the genre gives them one last chance to strut their maleness in a traditional setting. They can act like cowboys without having to ride a horse. And, as avatars...
CINEMA: Once again Hollywood is married to the Mob...