Word: singed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such a one is the film under consideration -- a Mafia comedy. Already the mind contracts with diminished expectations! Non-Italian actors gesturing rambunctiously, speaking with cotton candy in their mouths, plotting elaborate revenge with dim-bulbed resources. Cast Peter Falk as Dino Capisco, a dapper ) don just sprung from Sing Sing. Give him a score to settle with his weaselly partner Carmine Tarantino (Michael V. Gazzo) and a slick, Rudolph Giuliani- style D.A. (Bob Gunton) with an eye to nailing Dino's hide on the front page. Saddle him with a dog-stealing wife (Brenda Vaccaro) and a devoted...
...scale, note the average price of a meal (including one drink and a tip) and offer a succinct judgment on the restaurant. The results, compiled by computer, are boiled down by Zagat and a team of editors into capsule ratings that can sting as well as sing. In the current New York guide, for example, Elaine's, a snobby literary and show-biz hangout, gets bottom-drawer ratings of 9 in all three categories and such scathing reviewer comments as "I'd rather starve" and "check your self-esteem at the door...
...working to excellent effect. Mind you, listening to MacGowan blister his way through Young Ned of the Hill or White City will not bring a fond smile to folkies who prefer their music mild, like a cup of chamomile, or foursquare, like a sermon on a six-string. MacGowan sing-snarls like a saloon rowdy. His mouth, missing several prominent teeth, has attracted almost as much press attention as his voice, perhaps because they make such a perfect match. There is nothing pretty about a MacGowan vocal; the beauty comes later, after he has given the ear a good boxing...
SHOWING OFF. What ever happened to the witty little revue? It's thriving off- Broadway in this four-person jape at assorted cultural pretenses, including odious sing-alongs, the subject of the sing-along finale...
...these people face or evade the dour cliches of dead-end domesticity? By expressing their feelings through the poetry of pop songs. Like Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective, which also knew how potent cheap music is, Davies' film is laced with dozens of postwar tunes to counterpoint or underline the narrative. In the pub where everyone stops by "just to wet the baby's head," Eileen's pal Micky (Debi Jones) sings an effervescent Buttons and Bows, and Eileen pours her own seething frustration into a passionate rendition of I Wanna Be Around to Pick Up the Pieces...