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...SERPICO: THE SEQUEL...
These days he looks more like Mick Fleetwood than Al Pacino, but FRANK SERPICO hasn't changed much. Instead of being a nonconformist cop obsessed by police corruption, he's a nonvoting, vegetarian artist obsessed by police corruption. After years of reclusiveness, he's emerging to take on his favorite subject again. The 1973 book he wrote with Peter Maas, Serpico, has been rereleased, and last week before a New York city council committee he urged the establishment of an independent agency to monitor police. "I'm still waiting for the day," he said, "when the honest cop is feared...
...music that might accompany a Stanley Donen caper, while the clipped pace of the showdowns gives the movie the tone of a Power Rangers episode with wit. Newcomer Sergei proves himself an appealing comedian as he smugly cuts down his rivals' big plans with lines like "Keep dreamin', Serpico." The movie ends with Sergei and Holt poised for further adventures. A series maybe...
...1930s and '40s (The Shopworn Angel) when he was forced into exile by the blacklist. The script assignments eventually returned, but his talent didn't: his name first reappeared on dogs like Taras Bulba. But Salt made a comeback with his powerful screenplay for Midnight Cowboy, followed by Serpico and Coming Home. Nice work, nice...
...author of Serpico and The Valachi Papers is a natural for this kind of material. In a Child's Name crackles with narrative energy, but some readers may wonder to what purpose the book was written, other than to serve as a framework for the inevitable screenplay. Maas suggests that the case "concerns what we as a nation were supposed to be all about" but never really explains how or why. Although Taylor is a psychotic monster, there is nothing epic about his depravity, and Maas never solves the mystery of this man's heart of darkness...