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...Gist: Entertainment Weekly editor-at-large Ken Tucker surveys the lasting cultural influence of Brian De Palma's 1983 cult hit Scarface - a spectacle the author calls the "ultimate gangster film" and a work of pop art that has taken on "an unruly life of its own" in the 25 years since its initial release...
...crack the year's 15 top-grossing titles), Scarface arrived on the scene as a decidedly minor event. But Tucker recounts how the movie gradually "got away from its [middle-aged, white] creators" and became a hit among "largely young, black and Hispanic" fans. The book examines how De Palma's work redefined the way films addressed on-screen violence and drug use and how the intensity of its misogyny, money worship and drug euphoria was embraced by hip-hop and gangsta rap. Scarface, Tucker claims, was more than just vulgar escapism. As the story caught on with urban audiences...
...film's initial reception among Hollywood executives: Many insiders considered De Palma's Scarface a not-so-subtle critique of a drug-addled entertainment industry. "Steven Bauer repeated to me the famous anecdote about one major director's reaction: 'Marty Scorsese turned to me - he was sitting in front of me at the premiere - and he turned around and said, Steven, this is a magnificent film, but be prepared, because Hollywood is going to hate this film, because it's about them.' [Producer Martin Bregman] concurred about the dim view his colleagues took of the film: 'Scorsese was right. Hollywood...
...Saretsky said, adding that junior Stacy Carlson had gone to the meet as a freshman.Harvard has the week off before traveling to New York City for the Heptagonal Championships in Van Cortlandt Park.42nd UALBANY INVITATIONALThe women’s squad notched a ninth-place finish in the Bobbi Palma-Women’s Championship Race. Sophomore Cara Spargue led off the Crimson scoring with her 17th-place time in the 5K race of 18:28.2, which was a new personal record.“I was just overall impressed with the way they competed,” Saretsky said...
...looks as if we may have to wait for Hollywood's definitive Iraq-war film. But that's the way the movie industry works. In the decade that the U.S. military spent in Vietnam, only a few films surfaced, including John Wayne's bombastic The Green Berets and De Palma's anarchic comedies Greetings and Hi Mom! It took years for The Deer Hunter, Coming Home and Platoon to appear and leave their indelible marks. The great Iraq movie--like a solution to the current Iraq quandary--is still a thing to hope...