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...rest of the weekend's top 10 was teeming with cops, marshals and soldiers. Brooklyn's Finest, with Don Cheadle, Wesley Snipes, Ethan Hawke and Richard Gere, snagged a better-than-expected $13.5 million for second place, two notches above another Kings County policier, Cop Out. Martin Scorsese's Shelter Island took third place and is nearing the $100 million mark. In other milestones, Sandra Bullock's sports inspirational The Blind Side broke $250 million; Valentine's Day topped $100 million; and Dear John and Percy Jackson hit $75 million. Jeff Bridges' Crazy Heart, the one "indie" drama to reap...
...experts - the backgrounders and sound-biters parsing their traditions for a sometimes-perplexed nation. The Buddhist slot, for example, is occupied by Uma Thurman's father Robert, a professor and former Tibetan monk. In the 1990s reporters looking for a conservative Catholic voice sought out Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, editor of the journal First Things; for a more liberal take they called America's then editor Fr. Thomas Reese. But Neuhaus passed away and Reese (who remains a brilliant analyst) was controversially fired by the Pope. Since then Martin, America's culture editor, has out-outreached them both in their...
...believed in the American Dream, and the Vietnam War made him uneasy. The closest Hanks got to protesting Vietnam, however, was privately rooting for the Smothers Brothers, whose show was eventually canceled by CBS because of their antiwar banter. Immune to Berkeley radicalism and too "unhip" - his word - for Richard Pryor or Lenny Bruce, Hanks' comedic sensibility tilted more toward Bob Hope. Hanks was so square that he remembers rebuking a peer in his high school government class for saying in April 1974 that President Richard Nixon would be forced to resign. "I was historically smart enough to know that...
...instead Brooklyn's Finest is a movie, one with too much on its plate. We've got Tango (Don Cheadle), working undercover in the 'hood for years and itching to get out. Then there's ambitionless beat cop Eddie (Richard Gere), who wants to take it very easy because he's got seven days to retirement (not so fast, Eddie). Finally, there is narcotics officer Sal (Ethan Hawke), who has a wife (Lili Taylor) pregnant with twins and a miniature house already bursting at the seams with too many children to count. He's desperate for more money and while...
...cynical, mean to recruits and won't lift a finger for anyone. This is one of those situations in which familiarity with an actor directs the narrative more than the screenwriter does. We know Eddie is going to get off his duff at some point; he's played by Richard Gere...