Word: screens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...March 21, the Coppola/Puzio chef d'oeuvre will make its 25th anniversary return to theaters nationwide, with re-mastered sound as frosting on the birthday cake of an already incredible cinematic experience. Yet the imminent return of the don to the never-big-enough screen as well as the recent spate of mafia movies a la Donnie Bosco left me groping for the key to the mafia's popularity. Is it the films' documentary style? Are the Goodfellas so real they become funny? Funny how? Funny like a clown funny...
...accomplice Terry Nichols turned himself in. Now the FBI had picked up two men on suspicion of being associates of McVeigh's. Maloney, a real estate agent in the Ozarks, recognized the sound of one of the names--Robert Jacks. But then the drifter's face appeared on the screen. "When I saw him on TV," recalls Maloney, "I knew they had the wrong person...
...businessman, Johnson is showing the same kind of all-star potential. The opening of the 12-screen Magic Theatre movie complex next to the flagging Greenbriar Mall in predominantly black southwest Atlanta is the latest deal to establish the former hoop sorcerer as a force in inner-city economic development. Magic movie marquees are going up in Houston and Cleveland, Ohio, and Johnson has announced plans for 14 new multiplexes in 10 other cities over the next two years...
Many seniors say they became virtual prisoners of their computers, remaining glued to the screen on weekend nights...
...existing narcotics-fighting apparatus--including the tainted National Institute to Combat Drugs, headed by General Gutierrez--and start fresh with an independent new agency modeled on the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. Under the plan, the DEA, the FBI and even the CIA would be invited to help train and screen a new crop of better-paid Mexican drug fighters. "We guarantee this new agency will be bulletproof when it comes to corruption," says a high-ranking Mexican official...