Word: kidded
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Cudjoe/Wideman is a man in search of a myth that will unify his conflicting selves: the ghetto kid and the man of letters. The central images are not to be found among the classical ruins and blinding light of Greece but in the ashes of Osage Avenue in West Philadelphia. There, on May 13, 1985, readers may remember, a police helicopter dropped a bomb on 6221 Osage after its occupants, members of a black organization called Move, resisted orders to vacate. Six adults and five children were killed. The blast also started a fire that destroyed 60 other houses...
Miller's Crossing is about friendship, character and ethics. GoodFellas is about friends who are colorful characters but left their ethics at the baptismal font. Even as a kid, Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) was crazy about the gangster life. He connives in murder one, runs a cocaine cartel, robs decent folks blind -- and, when he is caught, shrugs off all remorse. His patron is a stately Mafioso (Paul Sorvino) who warns him to stay out of the drug business; Henry jumps right in. His best friend is a wacko hoodlum (Joe Pesci) who gets whacked by his own family; Henry...
Reports of ill-tempered behavior on the part of the teenage group have been rife throughout the summer. Just down the road from the school, at a bar called the Tent, there was said to be a scuffle between New Kid Joe McIntyre, his brother and a local man. Several weeks later, two of Donnie Wahlberg's brothers were arrested at a party in Braintree, minutes away from...
...have some problems with concepts of mine and thine. I want that seat--therefore, it's mine. You don't want me to have that seat--therefore, you will be moved out of the way by goons. If you don't like it, tough. I'm a New Kid...
...only major fault is that he occasionally sounds like the movie star he has become. Sabich's careful, noncommittal reply to reporters as he leaves the courtroom is all too reminiscent of how Ford approaches interviews in real-life. And Sabich's telling his wife to "go get 'em, kid," as she approaches a job interview seems more like what Ford would say to a five-year old after dispensing an autograph...