Word: polito
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...manages to remain taciturn even as the film’s narrator. Instead of talking, he observes and listens. In this way, he learns that his wife, Doris (Frances McDormand) is having an affair with her boss, Big Dave (James Gandolfini). And by listening to an entrepreneur (Jon Polito) seeking funding for a dry cleaning venture, Ed decides to break out of his hair-cutting rut and put up the money...
Like Red Harvest, but unlike most movies, Miller's Crossing has a good novel's narrative density. The film finds a dozen angles in the battle between Leo O'Bannion (Albert Finney), the Irishman who has run the town for years, and Johnny Caspar (Jon Polito), the volatile, flirtatious Italian who is itching to seize control. Their bone of contention is Bernie Bernbaum (John Turturro), a gambler too greedy to live long but too cunning to stay dead. His sister Verna (Marcia Gay Harden) has stolen Leo's heart and is ever ready to fence it. Nice crowd. Shuttling among...
...Garland is bringing out many important works that would otherwise be unavailable," agreed Robert J. Polito, a professor of English at Wellesley College...
...Polito, who received his Ph.D. in 1980, said he had changed the direction of his work since writing his dissertation, "At the Titan's Breakfast: Three Essays on Byron's Poetry." He said he no longer planned to revise it for publication now that Garland is bringing out the dissertation...
...elder of the engineers, Tsyganov (John Seitz), does have a drawing-room air about him. The younger engineer, Cherkoon (Jon Polito), is an ex-peasant who came from the town and seems to be using the rail line as a steam-lined revenge on his humdrum origins...