Word: vito
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Whatever the case, no youngster has lately, or perhaps ever, been placed in more deadly peril than 10-year-old Vito (Manuel Colao) in Flight of the Innocent. And no director has more vividly realized the plight of an innocent than youthful Carlo Carlei (who wrote the screenplay with Gualtiero Rosella). One fine warm day in Calabria, in southern Italy, Vito's entire family (and a boy they have mysteriously sequestered in a cave nearby) is massacred, and Vito narrowly escapes execution at the hands of a scarfaced man who will stalk him (and his nightmares) for the rest...
...elaborate wordplay and complex characters. "The characters are all screwed up," Burton notes. "I find that much more interesting." Returns tops the first movie's shrill wrestling match between Batman (Michael Keaton) and the Joker (Jack Nicholson) with a funnier, more lithe and daring villain: the Penguin (Danny De Vito). He is a vicious troll with a righteous grudge: his rich parents dumped him in the sewer when they saw he had flippers for hands. Now he wants to be loved and, even more, elected -- mayor of Gotham City. In DeVito's ripe performance, Penguin is a creature of Dickensian...
Throughout, the Brooklyn brashness of Pesci and his fiance, Mona Lisa Vito (Marisa Tomei) contrasts with the hokey lifestyle of the local folk. Pesci and Vito are foreigners here, as evidenced by their black clothing, ample gold jewelry, and paucity of Southern charm. But the film's humor and action become engrossing only in its final third, at the trial...
Harvard, lacking size, had shuttled many of its forwards between the "A" and "B" sides. The prop position, especially, was undermanned. Vito Sperduto and Matteo Pesci played in the B-side match until the heat and cramps ground them down...
Besides Snow, there are four other senior faculty members serving on the committee. They include Larsen Professor of Education and Human Development Robert A. Levine, Professor of Education Sara L. Lightfoot, Professor of Education Richard J. Murnane, Director of Teacher Education Vito Perrone...