Word: gangsters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Staub is more effective as the gangster-type, right-hand man than as the boxer whom Lanx later becomes. Lanx burns with the desire to control people, but Staub gives the stereotypical shady character amusing mannerisms which reveal his true weaknesses...
...attractive idea lurks at the center of this movie: evoke the glamorous, dangerous spirit of after-hours Harlem in the 1930s and do it in the style of a studio-bound gangster film of the time, in which sets, costumes, lighting all impart a dreamily enhancing air to reality. Implicit in this notion is an even better one: bring blacks in from the fringe of the movie's frame, where they were segregated in the old Hollywood, and make them the story's movers and shakers. To that end, Murphy recruited performers he obviously, and justifiably, admires -- Richard Pryor, Redd...
...amiably with Murphy in Coming to America (in which he played multiple roles, ranging from a grizzled barber-shop customer to a fiery evangelist), Hall seems poised for a movie breakthrough. In Harlem Nights, which Murphy wrote and directed, Hall is onscreen for only a few minutes, as a gangster who "hates Eddie's guts." He is currently talking with producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer (Beverly Hills Cop) about starring in an action-comedy, which would probably be shot next fall. "By then," Hall says, "either I'll have a grasp on what I'm doing or be sharing...
...tell apart. One is Shohei Imamura's stark meditation on Hiroshima 1945. The other is a cop movie backed by some heavy Hollywood artillery: the producers of Fatal Attraction. Michael Douglas and Andy Garcia are two New York City detectives on the trail of a cool, vicious Japanese gangster (Yusaku Matsuda). Their contact in the Osaka constabulary is a by- the-book gent (Ken Takakura) affronted by Douglas' bullying. You've seen this picture before; last year it was called Red Heat. "Theft is theft -- there is no gray area," Takakura observes, and Douglas ripostes, "New York...
...dirty rat." Everybody knows that screen gangster James Cagney uttered these words in one of his myriad movies. Or did he? Apparently not, say the authors of They Never Said It, a recently published compendium of oft-quoted misquotes and misattributions...