Word: roles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...defense is necessary. One side says vigilantism is cvommon sense, the other says its only permissible so long as it isn't allowed for whites only. Both sides seem unfortunately willing to give into the paranoia over crime, and to allow private citizens to take on a quasi-police role...
Casting Capone was potentially explosive as well. De Niro, the first choice, deferred accepting the role for so long that English Actor Bob Hoskins (Mona Lisa) was hired. Then De Niro said yes, and the studio fired Hoskins and ate his $200,000 salary. De Niro's scenes were to be filmed at the end of the twelve-week shoot. "I met him when we were in the final stages of rehearsals," Linson says. "He was thin. He looked about 15, 20 years too young to play Capone. He had a ponytail. I panicked. We'd fired Bob Hoskins...
...Iranian arms deals and money- raising efforts for the contras, but steadfastly denies that he knew anything about the diversion of weapons profits to the contras. But the crucial question of exactly what Reagan knew has not been answered in the hearings. When the scandal broke, he downplayed his role in soliciting support for the contras while the congressional ban against U.S. aid was in effect. After McFarlane testified that Reagan had talked with Saudi Arabia's King Fahd about contra assistance, the President acknowledged playing a larger part. Then, last week in Venice, he backtracked again, telling reporters...
...short hook that Johnson added only this season, "lifting his game" in his eighth year. That's the customary phrase, though it makes him wonder. "I was asked to score more this year, but it's wrong to say I've given more. I've always played the role I've been asked to play. The more responsibility I'm given, the more I show...
...innocent child possessed by the devil. A shark with a strange taste for shallow waters (and careless swimmers). An actor willing to sell his soul in exchange for a decent role. A good horror movie can be outlined in a sentence...