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DIED. WILLIAM HICKEY, 69, raspy-voiced actor whose breakthrough role as the one-breath-short-of-death don in Prizzi's Honor won him a 1986 Oscar nomination; of emphysema; in New York City...
...talented cast, which could thrive in a difficult medium. While the whole cast was strong, a few were especially worthy of note. Harvard alum Jon Matthews '84 played a slyly naive New York journalist, with a humor and style that is often believable, though sometimes overdone. John Randolph, of Prizzi's Honor fame, brilliantly portrayed an "authentic," folksy political fossil who "holds court" with wry witticisms and hackneyed observations. Finally, Richard Kind of TV's Spin City and Samantha Bennett colorfully reflected the vanity, insecurity and ambition that consume the reporters and their reporting...
Remember "Prizzi's Honor"? Do you think normal Americans could afford to hire Jack Nicholson or Kathleen Turner? Most Americans can't even afford cable...
...Prizzi's Honor (1985). John Huston's favorite country was the social margin, where improbable characters pursue impossible dreams. A hit man (Jack Nicholson) and a hit moll (Kathleen Turner) seek love and find death in a film that deliciously combines operatic emotions and black comedy...
There, however, useful invention ends. The narrative Murphy develops out of this situation is less a homage to a vanished genre than a knock-off of two more recent successes -- The Sting and Prizzi's Honor -- that were funny, but in antithetical, unblendable ways. The movie veers uneasily from not-funny comedy to not-persuasive melodrama. Murphy forgets that the dialogue in old- fashioned crime pictures was as highly stylized as the settings. In place of sharply polished wisecracks, he gives us the steady mutter of the witless, unfelt obscenities that are the argot of our modern mean streets...