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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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Here it is Friday night and I'm copping once again to missing a good article -- Susan King's L.A. Times profile of Doug Jones, the guy who played the faun and the bald eyeless monster in Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth. "I consider myself an actor first, not a suit performer," Jones tells her. He's also had roles in del Toro's Mimic and Hellboy.

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on December 29, 2006 at 09:30 PM

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cjKennedy says ...

Mr. Jones did an introduction and a Q&A at the Thursday night screening of Pan's Labyrinth at Arclight in LA. He was pretty enthusiastic about working with Del Toro. Much of the audience was aware of his work in previous del Toro films and especially in a classic episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. A nice tribute to a guy who might not be recognizeable on the street. For all the buzz over Bill Nighy in Pirates 2, it was nice to see a guy get some credit for two performances in a a far more worthy film.

Posted by cjKennedy at December 30, 2006 01:26 AM