Word: vito
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...psychotic neat-freak who lives on steroids, Twinkies and cocaine and who lost count of his kills at thirty men. There is Mary Moy, a pregnant FBI agent determined to uncover the construction conspiracy before a maternity leave takes her off the case of a lifetime. There is Vito Romero, a Mafia man devastated by the death of his wife and tortured by the desire to rehabilitate and control his pierced, punk and promiscuous teenage daughter. Of course, there are also the Godfathers: John Tuzio, leader of the Mafia and Jack Tierney, Paddy's boss, the sadistic Vietnam war hero...
Attention mafianados! at the age of 75, and more than 20 years after Don Vito Corleone and the rest of the Godfather gang abandoned the page for a more glamorous life on the screen, Mario Puzo has started a new family. The Last Don (Random House; 482 pages; $25.95) introduces the Clericuzios, a crime clan based in the Bronx, New York, and at the peak of its dark powers. Fortunately, Puzo too is in top form...
This year, however, a film has appeared that has surpassed all expectations. "The Celluloid Closet," directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman and based on the book by the late Vito Russo, is thorough, honest, coherent and artful. Tackling the tricky, complicated question of gay Hollywood, the creators of this film acquit themselves admirably. The movie, narrated unobtrusively by Lily Tomlin, is a comprehensive view of the presence of gay themes and characters in movies from the very beginning to the present. We witness the dramatic evolution from total stereotype and vague innuendo to movies wholly about gay life, including...
...would think...it would be very advantageous, in terms of being in an environment where academic work and studies and [books] and the like are always present," says Vito Perrone, director of teacher education programs...
Marisa Tomei is impressive, almost a revelation. This is by far the best performance she has given on film. She mixes the earthiness of her Mona Lisa Vito in "My Cousin Vinny" with the delicacy and luminosity of her Faith in "Only You," and comes up with something altogether different and superior. Tomei gained 20 pounds for the role and has never looked better--voluptuous, sensual, kinetic and delicately beautiful. In addition, her accent is impeccable. She is at times almost steretypically overripe, and yet she creates a genuineness which saves the whole conceit. Every time she is onscreen...