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DIED. JOHN RANDOLPH, 88, avuncular character actor; in Los Angeles. Familiar on TV (Roseanne) and in movies (Serpico, You've Got Mail), he had an even longer career onstage, winning a Tony for his role as a left-wing grandfather in Neil Simon's Broadway Bound. The role echoed his life as a self-proclaimed "old radical" who was blacklisted in the 1950s...
...chronicled the lives of Mafia insiders; in New York City. He collaborated with such high-profile Mob informants as Joseph Valachi (The Valachi Papers, 1969), confidant to Vito Genovese, and Sammy (The Bull) Gravano (Underboss, 1997), whose testimony helped undo John Gotti. In between, Maas wrote the best-selling Serpico, about a steadfast New York City cop who exposed graft in the police ranks...
...early '60s; in Torrance, California. To examine the link between LSD and creativity he tested the drug on 1,000 volunteers, including Aldous Huxley, Cary Grant and Jack Nicholson. DIED. PETER MAAS, 72, best-selling author of true-life Mafia and police crime novels The Valachi Papers and Serpico, which were made into successful movies starring Charles Bronson and Al Pacino, respectively; in New York City. When Maas received $400,000 for the film rights to the story of Frank Serpico's struggle against corruption within the New York City police department, he gave half of it to Serpico...
...film fails to build any comic momentum. It is an example of a movie that boasts fantastic scenes but which on the whole is not the most polished or cohesive product. The scene in which Max puts on his play--an adaptation of the gritty Al Pacino cop drama Serpico and a hard-boiled Vietnam epic--are comically brilliant, as is the montage that reveals all of Max's activities and the clever sequence in which Max and Blume play tricks on one another. But there is too much down time between these bits of inspired comedy, and the story...
Stephen Baldwin: I think it was the opportunity to be a part of one of those old-school, hard-core, New York City cop movies that they used to make but they don't make anymore; you know, in the vein of Serpico...