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...aphorism-spouting George C. Scott) who was determined to make a champion out of the delinquent. Tyson is played with an eerie emotional vacancy by newcomer Michael Jai White. Intriguingly, the actor is not given much dialogue, which serves to emphasize Tyson's position as little more than a pawn of handlers like promoter Don King, whom Paul Winfield plays as a man of charismatic turpitude...
...extent to which Salvi was a pawn of others remains unclear. Tantalizing bits of evidence link him to the most murderous offshoots of the antiabortion movement. After the carnage in Brookline, Massachusetts, for example, Salvi drove to Norfolk, Virginia, and allegedly blasted out the windows of the Hillcrest Clinic, which even locals have trouble finding. In his pocket was the telephone number of Donald Spitz, a Norfolk-area proponent of "justifiable homicide'' who has been a frequent protester at Hillcrest. Yet so far an extensive federal investigation has failed to establish a criminal conspiracy in the Salvi case...
...According to Handgun Control, Houston police reported that of 199 gun sales that were blocked in the first three weeks after Brady went into effect, 177 involved pawnshop transactions. But the crime bill passed by the last Congress contained a little-noticed provision that removed from scrutiny anyone reclaiming pawn merchandise...
...black and white. Shots of the outdoor food joint Haven Brothers attain a semi-documentary effort-lessness rarely seen in the movies. A pair of excellent cameos by two Federal Hill residents--one a tailor who admonishes one of the boys for a "funny money" deal, the other a pawn shop owner who, after sizing up a stolen ring, tells Ralph to take the ring, get out and not come back--relax the occasionally awkward machinations of the plot and makes the Hill feel real...
That's right, Carnesale. He's been a pawn of the Pforzheimers for years, ever since Steven Singer (ne Pforzheimer) infiltrated Carnesale's operation. Few people know that Singer controls Carnesale's actions with a tiny joystick that he fidgets with in the left front pocket of his pants. Many Kennedy School students died from boredom in the procurement of this information...