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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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If you have the slightest appetite for good political theatre, reading this Daily News story about Warren Beatty's anti-Arnold-Schwarzenegger speech in Oakland the other day will get your blood going. There are those who would love to see Beatty run against Schwarzenegger, but I there's no way he'll ever drop his Artful Dodger mentality and hang his hide over the side. It would be terrific, of course, if he did run. And I don't agree at all with the view of Dick Rosengarten, co-publisher of California Political Week, that a Beatty candidacy wouldn't fly. "I'm not sure two movie stars can run [against each other], not even here," he told the News. Wrong -- two former movie stars battling it out for the California governorship would be a totally natural and logical expression of the way Hollywood and politics have been bleeding into each other and upping the ante over the last 45 years.

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on September 25, 2005 at 10:25 AM