Word: slicks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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 but ditsy mistress (Dianne Wiest). And do make sure his life finally depends on the skeptical love and untested intelligence...
...Much of it sounds tough, as on one of Henley's favorite tracks, I Will Not Go Quietly ("It kicks ass more than any previous rock-'n'- roll songs I've done"), but nothing is delivered here with the jaded swagger that often got the Eagles branded as a slick bunch of SoCal libertines. That was mostly a bum rap, and it has taken Henley until now not only to find his own voice but also to get his own footing...
There is no question that you should see this movie, if you haven't already. It contains some of the best performances this year in a technically excellent production. With its slick cinematography and funky, flashy unique characters, the film looks good...
...from anonymous callers, some of whom promise to blow the pretty yellow house to smithereens. Whatever respite Hazelwood may have enjoyed as the story faded from the front pages probably ended last week, when the crippled Exxon Valdez, on its way for repairs, caused an 18-mile-long oil slick off San Diego. Suddenly the tanker was thrust back into the headlines...
Meanwhile in Texas, high winds and rough water complicated efforts to control the mile-long slick that resulted from a collision between the Panamanian-registered tanker Rachel B and a barge being towed by a tugboat in the Houston Ship Channel. Fortunately, the accident occurred in inland waters, where it is somewhat easier to clean up a spill than in the open...