Word: mobster
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...SHORTY A movie-mad mobster (dreamy, incisive John Travolta) reinvents himself as a movie mogul. He's a real shark chewing up Hollywood's rubbery simulacrums while helping some bottom feeders rise to the top in Barry Sonnenfeld's jaunty, well-acted comedy of bad manners...
...easy in this conceit, although there's good black comedy in it too--especially in the notion that it is the tragic flaw of hubris that eventually robs Sam and Nicky of their place in paradise. The former, apparently unaware of Bugsy Siegel's fate, aspires to celebrity-mobster status; the latter ratchets up his murder rate to crime-spree levels; both fatally attract the attention of the law and their own godfathers back home, who naturally prefer quieter business methods...
Tony Roberts has a likewise appealing stage presence as a gay companion/adviser/manager to Andrews. Having found true love in the unlikely form of a mobster's bodyguard, he moves deftly from whimsical philosophizing to jubilant clowning. Michael Nouri, as the Chicago mobster who falls for Andrews, is evidently meant to embody animal magnetism. While he's neither animal nor magnet enough to be fully convincing, he has some likable moments of sexual confusion. Poor thug, he can't be sure whether the creature he's pining after is a woman or a man. Edwards' direction turns up a couple...
...Adrian Sellars, an art gallery owner whose troubles are mounting like so many empty bottles of opening-night Mondavi. Sellars is plagued by a lust for both heroin and a beautiful Harlem drug dealer. His forgery scam is going awry, his partner winds up murdered, and a Japanese mobster is threatening to kill Sellars and his family if he does not deliver a promised Monet...
With a family to worry about and his life at stake, Kilmartin is forced to cooperate with the police. Infiltrating the same organization that masterminded the stolen car operation, Kilmartin befriends the boss, Little Junior (Cage). As an insane mobster, Cage gives the performance of his life. The cop assigned to oversee Kimartin's undercover work in the mob, Calvin (Jackson), is the same one who caught a bullet under the eye when Kilmartin was arrested. Having lost control of his tear duct, Calvin totes a hankerchief to dab his incessantly watering...