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Let’s play a game. “The most important thing in business is honesty, integrity, hard work, and family.” These are the words of which famous cinematic mobster: (1) Vito Corleone (2) Frank Costello or (3) Frank Lucas?Wait, Frank Lucas who? That seems to be the question of most members of the New York City Police Department in Ridley Scott’s new big-budget biopic, “American Gangster.” Starring audience and Academy darlings Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe, the film follows the rise of Harlem...
...will never see her again. But he does, and often; as Comrade Arlette, a guerrilla fighter being trained by the Cuban revolutionaries; as Madame Robert Arnoux, the wife of a French bureaucrat; as Mrs. Patricia Robinson, the wife of a British racetrack regular; as Kuriko, the mistress of Japanese mobster; as Lucy, a broken woman. Vargas Llosa has worn many hats himself, from a prominent Latin American intellectual who hob-nobbed with the likes of Castro and Garcia Marquez to a one-time Peruvian presidential candidate, from a literary critic to a novelist and later a professor, from the husband...
...social climate—a loud glorification of government-backed violence and a raucous endorsement of a “do whatever it takes” mentality. In the film’s world, cops are still called pigs, cocaine rules the street, Blondie still plays at clubs, and mobsters with ponytails wear tight leather jackets. But such 80s cultural stereotypes seem anachronistic, mostly because they so poorly mask the fact that the questions at the film’s core are distinctly those of our time—a time when our country’s de facto cultural...
...very wealthy, whether by signing them to shoe deals or encouraging them to take the jump from high school straight to the NBA or both.But while Vaccaro has plenty of admirers, he has no shortage of critics either, especially in the NCAA. He has been portrayed as a basketball mobster, a blight on the integrity of the game who has brought about the age where NBA hype starts in middle school and teenagers are drawn away from the amateur game by the allure of multimillion shoe deals and signing bonuses.To Vaccaro, the claims of his critics are representative...
Some effin' good news for Tony Soprano from the Italian Supreme Court. The fictional Italian-American mobster, and millions of law-abiding real folk in the old country, can now feel more free (not that Tony ever held back) to use the Italian "V" word that - more or less - corresponds with the English "F" word. Italy's top court ruled on Tuesday that "though representative of obscene concepts [and] of a sexual nature," that world-renowned 10-letter word is merely a "vulgar manifestation of irritation." The ruling overturned a verbal abuse conviction of a 60-year-old local politician...