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...Chicago program is one of a hundred or so set up across the U.S. in recent years in response to studies showing that a relatively few hard-core criminals are responsible for a disproportionate amount of crime. The first was New York City's major offense bureau (MOB) in The Bronx district attorney's office, which began in 1973. MOB'S success inspired the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA) to invest $30 million of federal money in 50 similar projects over a five-year period starting in 1975. Since then, 10,000 criminals who committed a total...
...whole family. Suddenly, the doorbell rings--it is Gloria, the next-door neighbor, who has run out of coffee. The accountant, who has run out of time, gives her instead his son, and a ledger. Gloria goes back to her apartment with the boy, and the Mob comes and murders the accountant, his wife, and his daughter...
CASSAVETES DOES ACHIEVE an interesting portrait of the mob-as-business; hit men get stuck in traffic, murder becomes a routine between neighbors. It's a way of looking at organized crime that we've seen before, and Cassavetes still pulls it off, which is a neat little trick. Still, most of the finer things Cassavettes tries to achieve have already been done better, in Martin Scorcese's Taxi Driver and Peter Bogdanovich's unacknowledged masterpiece, Saint Jack...
...clad head-to-blue jeans in Expos regalia--spoke to himself as he shuffled down the ramp. "I spent over a thousand dollars to come here from Winnipeg," he said. "Now, I'm going home empty-handed." And with that, he bent over so the passing mob wouldn...
...once a chorine and a mobster's moll. Now she's on the lam from her old pals, with a neighbor's Puerto Rican son in tow. For two hours of screen time, Gloria and tough little Phil (and the movie) meander around Manhattan because the Mob has covered all the bus, train and air terminals and the fugitives never think to rent a car. But nothing fazes Gloria, who smokes Salems down through the filters, talks cheekily with hoods and, in defense of her ward and for the sheer hell of it, triggers half a dozen...