On the eve of St. Patrick's Day 1920 the city treasurer in Atlantic City is busy finessing Prohibition, but his brother, the sheriff, is focused on delivering a speech to the Ancient Order of the Celts. He brandishes a pamphlet he picked up in a course at the Y.M.C.A.: ''Public Speaking and Influencing Men in Business'' by Dale Carnagey. Long...
ON a blistering afternoon last June, outside a Polish social club in Greenpoint, men in heavy wool tuxedos, with slicked-back hair and pencil-thin mustaches, were blotting their brows. They looked like overheated figures from a Peter Arno drawing. Nearby were some very slender young women in spangly, ankle-length dresses. A couple were wearing...
''The Winning Season,'' a mousy little film about an alcoholic loser who becomes the coach of a high school girls' basketball team in Indiana, is so afraid of its own shadow that it cowers in a corner trying to decide what it wants to be. At some points, it looks and sounds like a low-budget feel-good sports film with the usual rah-rah clichés...
Steven Vincent Buscemi (født 13. december 1957) er en amerikansk skuespiller og filminstruktør. Med sit markante udseende har han haft en række ikoniske roller, bl.a. som Mr. Pink i Håndlangerne og Carl Showalter i Fargo. Han bliver ofte brugt i Joel og Ethan Coens film, ligesom han er fast inventar i Adam Sandler-film. Han spiller i øjeblikket Enoch "Nucky" Thompson i den anmelderroste dramaserie Boardwalk Empire, hvilket han modtog en Golden Globe for i 2010.