Word: phil
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...American melting pot, gangsters were the indigestible pieces of ethnic gristle; country of origin was as crucial as turf. So we need some Irish gangsters. In Phil Joanou's State of Grace, they are based on the Westies gang, who ran the rackets in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen. Other Irishmen run a big-city crime factory, about 1929, in Joel and Ethan Coen's Miller's Crossing, where, in the grand tradition, they fight the Italians and the Jews...
Kickoff Returns: Player No. Yds. Avg. Lg TD Sean Koscho 2 35 17.5 21 0 Phil Maher...
...rating sticks, Kaufman could become the most notable victim of an increasingly misguided system of self-censorship. Even in a year when the rating board has slapped Xs on a dozen films, the Henry & June rating sent new shudders through Hollywood's creative community. "Phil Kaufman does not make X-rated movies," says filmmaker James Brooks (Terms of Endearment). "So if Kaufman makes a movie that is rated X, then there's something wrong with the system...
Some rules never change. Even a studio as sympathetic to maverick talent as Universal Pictures will not release an X-rated film. "We want to support Phil's vision," says Universal president Tom Pollack, "as we did with Spike Lee on Do the Right Thing and Martin Scorsese on The Last Temptation of Christ." But if Henry & June loses its Oct. 3 appeal to the rating board, Kaufman has only two options: cut the film to the censors' pattern or take his movie to an independent distributor...
...never set my sights on this job. But I came here feeling the Reagan Administration would find a way to cut government expenditures. I don't really like living here in Washington. I didn't feel I was accomplishing anything important. But when Phil Gramm and I got together on Gramm-Rudman-Hollings in 1985, I changed my view. I thought one person could make a difference...