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54 - Friday, June 21, 1985 - North Shore News

Mafia honor a laugh in new film

‘‘STRAIGHT-arrow flame, the lovely Italian gir! hood, has only to take one killer who can work right in his chopped-up Brooklyn chance to make a buck and
Charlie, the all-American Maerose (Anjelica Huston). look at the elegant, poised alongside her new husband. english. ‘1 looks at you, | grabbed it,”’ shrugs Mae.

hood,’* muses the unfortu- Mae, an interior decorator, blond to fall madly in love. Kathleen Turner shows a see what 1 want to see, that’s Overall, due to Nicholson
nate crook caught ripping tells him about art deco. Determined to win her heart comedic side to her versatile what love is,’’ adds the and Turner, Prizzi’s Honor

off the mafia, ashe staresup ‘‘Art who?'’ queries he pursues the -polish- nature in Prizzi's Honor,  straight-talking hood. hits the mark. The wrinkled,

from his seat at a pistol- Charley, in his whinny american Irene with the help while never letting the char- Irene, while sharing his sleazy don (William Hickey)

toting Charley Partanna, Brooklyn voice. of his stylish, canary-yellow acter of Irene take a bed and some of his hit jobs, is overacted.

hitman for the Prizzi family. There's no doubt about it sports coat and swabbish backseat to the men of the is not above lying for a But there are no nice guys
That’s a good description that Nicholson carries this manners. family. buck. She helps rip off the dressed up as mafia

of Juck Nicholson as he ap- film. But Kathleen Turner as She is the perfect femme Charley, while loving  Prizzi mob and then lies to members.

pears in Prizzi’s Honor, a his lover irene Walker, goes fatale for Charley. As it Irene, has. little use for fall- Charley. Angered when he Prizzi's Honor is now
comedy laced with gallow's a long way to shouldering turns out they even share the ing in love. ‘‘Bein’’ in love is finds out, he turns to playing at Vancouver Cen-
humor.Nicholson is a natu- her share of the load. same profession. Irene is a a hormonal secretion, so Maerose for comfort. ‘‘She’s tre, Richmond Squre and
ral for the character of Charley the uncouth “hitter” ‘oo. A freelance who needs it?” he tells Irene an American girl, she saw a Guildford.

Charley Partanna. He wears
the role with the fook and
feel of a well-tailored New
York-cut suit.

By COLIN LAMONT

He slips into the character
of the uneducated, cold-
blooded hitman with ease,
offering us a pair of beady
eyes, Brooklyn accent,
twisted upper lip and total
lack of scruples.

Charlie is a family man
from birth. The don
(William Hickey) pledges to
Jook after him like a good
godfather should, even be-
fore he is brought home
from ‘his birth at the
hospital. As a cub scout the
family offers him a birthday
present of a pair of brass
knuckles. As a young adult,
his present is membership
into the Prizzi Family
_through an ancient Sicilian
candle-lit ceremony.

More often than not,
Charley is just as deadly
with his tongue as his gun. A
simple man, with no con-
science when it comes to kill-
ing family enemies, he often
kills the audience with his
astute observations on
language. At a big family
wedding he meets his old

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