Word: rocco
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...point: one of the videos purchased by the prosecution is Pam & Tommy Lee--Hardcore & Uncensored, which has sold more than 200,000 copies, making it the most popular adult video in history. But there was more than Pam and Tommy's honeymoon in Deters' shopping cart. "Pick up Rocco or whatever the hell that thing was, and you'll understand," Deters says. The tape, Rocco More than Ever, includes hair pulling, implied urination and a woman crawling around in pig feces, snorting. Flynt may not find that obscene, but he's a guy who decorated his driveway with a statue...
...Rocco Klein (Harvey Keitel) is a homicide detective whose cynicism energizes rather than wearies him. He'll match his street smarts against any neighborhood punk's, and he's convinced that Strike must have murdered a rival drug dealer. The only other logical suspect is the kid's older brother Victor (Isaiah Washington), but that makes no sense; the man is working two jobs to support a wife and two kids, trying to engineer a respectable rise in the world...
They are wonderfully well-matched antagonists, Strike and Rocco. The former is wary, sullen and perhaps more ambivalent about his work than he dares to admit. The latter is bustling, voluble and perhaps more sympathetic toward Strike--with everyone trying to survive in this milieu--than he cares to admit. Clockers is careful not to overexplain these figures. Director Spike Lee, who shares screenplay credit with novelist Richard Price, lets Phifer (in his first film role) and Keitel (in his umpty-umpth) find the characters, which they do with unimprovable unpredictability...
...until the May 3 cutoff for Tony nominations, at least six new plays are planned, including yet another by McNally. Still, opening-night mortality rates being what they are, theater pros know better than to predict a resurgence of plays on Broadway. "Two or three," says Jujamcyn Theaters president Rocco Landesman, "would be an avalanche...
...producers profess only delight. Says Rocco Landesman, president of the Jujamcyn theater-ownership group that is co-financing and housing Millennium and Perestroika: "When we look back on this in five or 10 years, we are not going to remember our exasperation at the script coming in late or how much money it cost. We are going to remember that we are the producers of Angels in America, the most important play in a generation...