Word: underworld
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...torpedo-shaped head attached to a bulldog's body. He moves, and barks out his dialogue, with the arrogant energy of Cagney and Robinson, but with precisely none of their charm. In The Long Good Friday, Hoskins gets to play a Little Hitler of the London underworld out to make a killing in real estate while some mysterious rivals make more spectacular killings of his henchmen. Director John Mackenzie's idea of subtle menace is to show a victim's hand nailed to the floor; and Hoskins, in moments of stress, is too quick to bare...
...Frogs opens on Dionysus and her servant, Xanthias, planning to depart for Hades. Depressed by an apathetic world, in Aristophanes' original they wish to bring back the playwright Euripides to wake the world with witty satire. Once in the underworld Dionysus realizes that the true artist. Aeschylus, can contribute much more passion and poetry than the humorist and decides that he will save the world by returning this writer to life. The modernized version replaces Euripides with George Bernard Shaw, and Aeschylus with William Shakespeare. But Sheevelove sticks closely to the rest of Aristophanes' script; even the scatological jokes...
...Guttenberg) is ready to get married, with few qualms and one small condition: that his fiancee pass the world's toughest football quiz. Boogie (Mickey Rourke) will never be married: he has too much fun playing the sensitive stud and limping through life with one foot in the underworld. Fenwick (Kevin Bacon) is beyond marriage: proto-hip and self-destructive, he seems to be waiting for the '60s to explode around him. Billy (Timothy Daly) wants to get married-but his pregnant girlfriend is more intent on a career in television. It may take Billy the better part...
...evening paper and you will not see a young couple walk through a "Japanese garden" filled with blank-faced nisei standing in planters. Raid the fridge and you will miss the visit Sergeant-Lieut. Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) pays to a shoeshine wizard who knows everything about the Underworld-and about life after death, open-heart surgery and the fate of the Dodgers' pitching staff...
...directed such Broadway hits as Clash by Night (1941), The Big Knife (1949) and the Pulitzer-prizewinning Men in White (1933). After coaching and directing for 38 years, he resumed his acting career in 1974, when he made his movie debut in Godfather II. His portrayal of an aging underworld boss won him an Oscar nomination. Strasberg subsequently appeared in And Justice for All and Going in Style...