Word: punk
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...mouth, and McBride knows how to stage both action and eroticism; their work has a drive and energy that derive from conviction and, perhaps, good old American know-how. Best of all, the film makers have found in Richard Gere an actor who can play a dumb, crazy punk and make the audience like him. It is a breakthrough performance for an actor who has brooded prettily over various victimizations in the past, but never showed this strength of characterlessness before...
...American public should not be made to feel guilty when a "classic posturing punk" who committed a heinous crime and had his day in court is finally removed from our midst...
John Louis Evans was a punk, a classic posturing punk. After his release from an Indiana prison, he and a buddy he met there went on a cross-country crime spree, Jimmy Cagneys writ small in convenience stores. In Mobile, Ala., on Jan. 5, 1977, they held up a pawnshop. As the owner, Edward Nassar, crawled on the floor, his two young daughters watching in horror, Evans shot him in the back, dead...
...Rockwell only mentions punk as context for an essay on the Talking Heads and effectively dismisses the genre after smugly declaring. "This flamboyant, often speeded-up rock and exuberant, nihilistic life-style never really caught on in New York; the Dolls and, later, the Ramones helped inspire the movement, but didn't realize it fully themselves." Rockwell's fixation with the "New York scene" is part and parcel of his overall preference for the cerebral over the emotional the arty over the visceral...
Slab Boys is drawing an uncustomary Broadway audience, many in leather jackets and punk haircuts, perhaps because the cast features leading exponents of baby-faced macho: Kevin Bacon (Fenwick in the movie Diner), Sean Penn (Fast Times at Ridgemont High), Jackie Earle Haley (Breaking Away) and Val Kilmer...