Word: steals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...HEAD (20th Century Fox) A bizarre comedy about a wisecracking, bodyless scientist and his eccentric brother and how they foil a plot to steal their secret hair-growth formula...
Bootleggers steal music by taping radio and TV broadcasts, sneaking portable recorders into live concerts, surreptitiously tapping into studio mixing boards or even bribing studio executives. Once the pirates have their booty, they pay legitimate CD manufacturers to produce discs from the master tapes, which are often labeled with a bogus name to escape detection. Most bootleg CDs are made in Germany, Italy and Eastern Europe, where lax regulation and sketchy copyright laws make enforcement difficult. The illicit CDs are then smuggled into the U.S., where they are sold for prices ranging from...
Unlike most of the plot points that have stirred debate, this one actually deserves it. Sure, everyone recognizes it as a straight steal from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, but what final meaning does it impose? Sarandon thinks it's "the least compromising ending. You built this whole film to have these people not settle anymore, and then you'd toss them back into the system...
...what I am. They would mutilate me in such a way, and they would want the whole world to see it to put fear in people. I took a whole family down, you know. But I'm trying to adjust to a legitimate life. I could go out and steal and set somebody up just like that ((snaps fingers)), but I can't take the chance. I wouldn't last too long in jail. So I'm working. And I'd like to get a house, fix it up, sell it and, you know, things like that...
...that he wanted to grow up to make movies. Growing up was the hard part. Drugs and violence were moving into South Central Los Angeles, where Singleton spent his boyhood, and the temptations were strong. "My parents didn't have a lot of money," he says. "I used to steal little stuff, like candy, toys and Players magazines, but I never got into anything too rough...