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...rarely the most noticeable person in a movie or TV series. The young Ann-Margret vamped and held him hostage in the 1964 Kitten With a Whip - oh, if the movie were only as tawdry as its title - but his character survived, decorum intact. Lawyer Al Pacino spumed and ranted in the 1979 film ...And Justice for All and Forsythe, as a judge, manfully gaveled him down. When Bill Murray, as the rapacious network executive in the 1989 Scrooged, needed a talking to, Forsythe, even in corpse makeup, had the authority to do it. You might say he was upstaged...
...action flick actually being honest: “Jean-Claude Van Damme is back in the same crap you’ve seen over, and over, and over again.” Coupling his ability to mimic LaFontaine to a repertoire of actor imitations, from Keanu Reeves to Al Pacino, Francisco is perhaps the only stand-up comedian who can act out an entire movie trailer live. His most famous faux cinematic concoction is “Little Tortilla Boy,” an action flick starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as a street vendor trying to protect his tortilla business from...
...Adelstein builds his stories with as much surprise and grit as any Al Pacino or Mark Wahlberg movie, blurring the lines between the cops, the crooks and even the journalists. "You and I are in the same business," a gangster tells Adelstein early on. "We're in the information industry." As the kid from Missouri begins to disappear deeper and deeper into the demimonde - sleeping in police HQ, drawing dangerously close to a hostess who works at the Den of Delicious and taking on the gangs responsible for human-trafficking in Japan - he comes to lose all sense of where...
...Frank Serpico, the corruption-fighting officer portrayed by Al Pacino in the 1973 movie, is the only pure whistle-blower you've seen. In my experience he was the only person who did this out of genuinely altruistic motives. (Read TIME's 1971 article about Serpico...
Mann, from his debut feature film, Thief, through those exemplary TV series Miami Vice and Crime Story to his cop-and-crook, cat-and-mouse Heat with Pacino and De Niro, has fashioned a body of work that puts him up there with Martin Scorsese as American entertainment's definitive chronicler of the underworld. This project promised to be the crowning achievement of a Chicago kid steeped in the lore and chivalric code of the bad guy. And moment by moment, it delivers details that seem true to the time - like the bank-robbery hostages mounted on the getaway...