Word: niro
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...PLAYERS] Pam Grier, Sam Jackson, De Niro; dir. Quentin Tarantino...
...Nexis search and you will not find the adjective Tupac Shakurish used to describe his bland hip-hop work--but in Hollywood these days, he is giving off heat. Wahlberg's performance in The Basketball Diaries (1995) as a drug-addled Catholic school dropout, opposite the De Niro of his generation, Leonardo DiCaprio, was surprisingly well received. Just last week he had dinner with the actual Robert De Niro to talk about a boxing film the two plan to star in called Out on My Feet. And Wahlberg is already drawing serious critical attention for his unexpectedly impressive work...
...West, when shorthanded sheriffs had to enlist free-lance help in tracking down stagecoach robbers and cattle rustlers. Bounty hunters have been celebrated in popular culture--The Hunter, a Steve McQueen movie was inspired by the story of legendary bounty hunter Ralph Thorson, and Midnight Run presented Robert De Niro as a bounty hunter. "It harks back to the endless Western frontier, where no law existed and bounty hunters crossed state lines in pursuit of justice," says Robert McCrie, a professor at New York City's John Jay College of Criminal Justice...
...back. George Clooney urged a boycott of Paramount Pictures TV shows because of their use of video paparazzi footage of him and his girlfriend. Alec Baldwin scuffled with a photographer who confronted his wife Kim Basinger and their newborn daughter as they came home from the hospital. Robert De Niro, Will Smith and Woody Harrelson have all fought with the shooters...
...debut, Reservoir Dogs, Tarantino's latest film is populated with jive-talking killers and other lowlifes. The plot revolves around a streetwise flight attendant, played by Grier, who double- and triple-crosses a gun dealer (Samuel L. Jackson) despite interference from an ex-con (Robert De Niro) and a stoned-out beach bunny (Bridget Fonda) who bounces between the two men. Filled with Tarantino-lingo overkill (the N word is reportedly used 10 times in the first scene alone), the film mixes ultra-violence with the director's usual pop-culture references and hip humor. "At the very least...