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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...sluggish economy can a young man find work? (In the movie, a college graduate, lured into a job supervising the dumping of toxic waste, decides to quit the business. His padrone, disgusted, spells out what awaits him: "Go make pizzas.") When everyone in town is either a gangster or his potential victim, kids learn early to choose sides. What's exciting and, briefly, enriching for the boys, the Mob sees as labor that's cheap, malleable, expendable. In this sense, the film is Slumdog Millionaire without the girl, the songs or even a long shot at redemption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gomorrah: Scarface for Real | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...away.RR: Has he grown as a painter since you’ve known him?EFF: We don’t really know him as a painter. He’s always sitting around drawing, sketching with paint markers and stuff. A lot of it is hip-hop inspired. Straight gangster rap.Sophie R. Wharton ‘11 and Madeleine A. Bennett ‘11RR: What do you think of the paintings?SRW: I’m very impressed. Our friend has practically lived here, so it’s nice to see the end result.RR: So was she successful...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ROVING REPORTER: VES 25: Non-Observational Painting | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...mediate between leftist guerrillas and right-wing death squads, and once, while still a bishop, he showed up at the house of cocaine king Pablo Escobar disguised as a milkman. Revealing himself, Castrillón implored Escobar to confess his sins, which, presumably at some considerable length, the vicious gangster did. "Anyone who's had interaction with him will tell you he's an imperious [person] who acts first and worries about the consequences later," says the Vatican official. "Sometimes I don't think he even cares about the consequences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cardinal Behind the Pope's Lefebvrite Flap | 2/4/2009 | See Source »

...starring roles in a bunch of fascinating weirdies: Francis Coppola's Rumble Fish (Mickey was Motorcycle Boy), The Pope of Greenwich Village, Michael Cimino's Year of the Dragon, the S&M erotic drama 9 1/2 Weeks, the satanic thriller Angel Heart (De Niro was the Devil), as a gangster in Elephant Man makeup in Johnny Handsome and a lowlife genius in a film of Charles Bukowski's Barfly. The guy was sexy, dangerous, adventurous in his choice of roles. The actor's cliché "totally committed to the process" could have been coined for Rourke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Wrestler: Mickey Rourke's Comeback Fight | 12/15/2008 | See Source »

...careerist effort to modernize his sound. The result is a resolutely generic club rap album entirely devoid of the musical experimentation and rhythmic virtuosity that defined Common’s early collaborators. Early in his career, Common gained a reputation for focusing on social and political issues instead of gangsterism and consumerist machismo. From the first verse of his new album’s title track, it’s obvious that this has changed: Common now seems primarily concerned with “Body movin’, showin’, groovin’, stylin’, and bein?...

Author: By Mark A. Vanmiddlesworth, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Common | 12/12/2008 | See Source »

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