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...forgotten journeymen who were in no recognized sense auteurs; they were no-teurs. That's been a tonic corrective to the received wisdom about films: that, yes, there are still pearls worth diving for; you just have to look in ranker, more roiled waters. Hence, Vanishing Point's Richard Sarafian, and John Hough of Dirty Mary Crazy Larry, and a true indie daredevil, H.B. Halicki, who died during a stunt scene while shooting the sequel to Gone in 60 Seconds...
Both "Big Paul" Castellano (Richard Sarafian), famously whacked by Gotti soldiers outside a Manhattan steak house in 1985, and Salvatore ("Sammy the Bull") Gravano (William Forsythe), whose turncoat chattiness with the feds ultimately landed Gotti his life sentence, are portrayed as the real evildoers here. Why? Because they were Michael Milken greedy. While Gotti's silk-and-cashmere flamboyance may have embodied the underworld side of '80s excess, Castellano and Gravano were, in this film's view, the true moral lepers because they threw around terms like "joint venture" and "bottom line" and believed in the coldhearted notion that...
...sets off. Doc has abandoned touring and Blackie to seek greater song-writing profits. But stuck in considerable debt and creatively bankrupt--he has unwittingly sold the rights to his songs--Doc must adopt a tough counter-strategy against the unsavory tactics of Nashville music manager Rodeo Rocky (Richard Sarafian). After an implausibly easy arson job, he takes off to Austin to form his own record label and write songs under other people's names...
...Dick Sarafian is rewriting the script. This movie is going to be great: after New York, we've got locations in London, Ireland, Nice, the Bahamas, the Middle East and Teterboro...
...Bahamas were great-everybody got some sun! Now we're in Saudi Arabia, and Sarafian says he does not understand his own rewrite. He shows up in a small part though, so no one can say this picture didn't have a director. Cornelia is a lot happier here. Nobody understands English...