Discland
edited by Jonathan Doyle
Mafioso (The Criterion Collection, 3.18.2008) Nino Badalamenti is a supervisor in a car manufacturing plant who hasn't taken a vacation in over two years. On his way out the door to visit his beloved childhood hometown of Sicily -- with his blonde wife and daughters -- Nino is handed a package by his boss and asked to deliver it to a powerful and influential Sicilian gangster named Don Vincenzo. Once in Sicily, Nino has a hoot seeing friends and family, but his wife has trouble fitting in and is unfairly dismissed as a snob by Nino's family. Even more worrisome, Nino finds himself entangled in an intricate web of secret mafioso dealings and is eventually sent on an unexpectedly... elaborate errand. (continued)

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I've never patted or pinched

I've never patted or pinched the ass of any unacquainted person in my life, male or female, and if someone were to pat or pinch my derriere the groper would be sorry about this immediately, trust me...unless she happened to be an attractive woman, of course. Why am I talking about this stupid subject? Because there's something bizarre about the following AP news report, which is linked to a front page call-out on the cyber edition of the N.Y. Daily News: "The actor Christian Slater [now appearing in The Glass Menagerie with Jessica Lange) was arrested early Tuesday for allegedly groping a woman on a Manhattan street, police said. Slater, 35, was accused of touching the woman's buttocks near 93rd Street and Third Avenue on the Upper East Side around 1:50 a.m., said a police spokesman, Detective John Sweeney. The woman, who was not identified, flagged down police to report the incident, Sweeney said. Slater was found nearby and the woman identified him as the man who groped her." How stupid is Slater? In this day and age what kind of dumb-ass cops a feel on a New York Street and assumes it will go down agreeably with the woman and nothing bad will come of it? (And yet it sounds like an incomplete story...I don't think we're getting all the details...an enterprising reporter needs to do some digging.) Isn't it funny how Al Pacino can do that bit in Heat ("Because she has a...great ass! And you've got your head all the way up it!") and everyone laughs because they know where he's coming from, but when a guy like Slater does a dumbbell thing like ass-patting on 93rd Street everyone recoils and wonders what the hell. I'll tell you what Slater's problem might be. Being a name actor, he might have decided that the rule we all live by, which is that we've got to hold it in until it's cool to let it out, doesn't apply to guys in his position.
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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on May 31, 2005 at 07:46 AM

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