Word: repping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ANGELES: What does it take to kick a congressman out of office? Apparently more than a corruption conviction. After Rep. Jay Kim and his wife yesterday pleaded guilty to accepting and hiding $230,000 inillegal campaign contributions from corporations and foreign citizens, the California congressman's attorney said Kim plans to remain in office -- and even run for re-election next year...
...Freddy Heflin, and in Cop Land--a sharp-eyed character study and virtuoso acting class masquerading as a violent melodrama--he is played by Sylvester Stallone. This time Hollywood's longest lived action star is not battling Apollo Creed or the Vietnamese or a killer mountain, but his own rep as a stolid, vaguely comic, pre-Modernist hunk-lunk. Freddy is surrounded by guys who think they're men because they carry guns in the big city. But Sly is crowded too--by an intimidating gang of quality thesps, including Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel and Ray Liotta. They...
...them better, more secure. Beyond HOPE complains that a small number of renegades have ruined the image of the rest of them by doing things like taking down phone systems and swiping credit card numbers. Who could imagine these petty offenses would give the whole group such a bad rep...
...them better, more secure. Beyond HOPE complains that a small number of renegades have ruined the image of the rest of them by doing things like taking down phone systems and swiping credit card numbers. Who could imagine these petty offenses would give the whole group such a bad rep...
...also expect the movie to be a hit, and to solidify Lawrence's rep as a multimedia comedy star: Richard Pryor, the next generation. Lawrence has Pryor's bantam pugnacity, but he lacks the underdog charm, the skewed genius for mimicry and acerb social humor. He has got the Pryor attitude but not the aptitude. And maybe there can be another difference: Lawrence must keep from setting himself and his career on fire...