There’s a boo-boo in Borys Kit‘s Hollywood Reporter story that’s partly about Stone Village Prods. having hired Bo Goldman to pen an adaptation of a forthcoming remake of Jules Dassin’s Rififi, which will star Al Pacino in the Jean Servais role. The piece names the director of the remake as “Walt” Becker. Referred to in the story as Pacino’s collaborator on Sea of Love and City Hall, the guy’s actual name is Harold Becker. Walt Becker, an actual guy, directed Van Wilder.
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Can’t decide which performance is better, although I’ve always leaned toward Tina Vitale, her cynical New Jersey moll behind the...
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A friend suggested a list of the Ten Best American Crime Flicks of the ‘70s. By which he meant films...
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I’ve never been able to give myself over to Sam Peckinpah’s Major Dundee, a 1965 Civil War–era western, and I’ve...
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