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To: Poet who wrote (5622)	4/2/2002 12:28:01 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

It was set in a Bronx neighborhood near Long Island Sound, where some of the murders had taken place. The focus was not on Birkewitz, but on a working class Italian- American community. John Leguizamo plays a married fellow who cannot seem to keep his zipper up, and who yearns for real "cool", eventually trying to get into Studio 54. His wife (Mira Sorvino) eventually goes along with him in a drug- loaded orgy, to try to please him, and he turns on her for being a whore. Finally, they break up. There are other plot lines, for example, a wannabe punk rocker from the neighborhood who makes money by dancing in a homosexual porno joint, with a little prostitution on the side, whose mother is remarried, and who is experiencing various tensions in the neighborhood. As the summer wears on, some of the younger goombas decide to form a posse, making a short list of possible serial killers, and intimidating them on the Fourth of July. Eventually, they decide to target the punk rocker, and beat the crap out of him. Leguizamo, who is his friend, is made to set him up, and is terribly guilty, but helpless to save himself or his friend. There are more minor plot lines, but the main thing is using the ratcheting tension as a way of causing things to boil over in the neighborhood, and showing the result. Spike gets to show that he knows something outside of the largely black milieu, and that he has a sense of the complexities that might animate an Italian neighborhood. I should mention that Birkewitz (Michael Balducci, now on The Practice) is shown at various points. Also, Jimmy Breslin has a couple of cameos. His filmmaking is also more assured by that time. Some of the clunkiness in "Mo Better Blues" and "Crooklyn" has given way to a more fluid style. His stylizations are more atmospheric and seem less arbitrary, and he has a better rhythm than on some films.