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Article: Chicago tales inspire Mamet screenplay for `Untouchables'
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 15, 1987
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NEW YORK Ah, it's the summer-movie season. And the words of David
Mamet fill local theaters:
"You can get farther on a kind word and a gun than just a kind
word." "On the boat, it's bootlegging. On Lake Shore Drive, it's
hospitality."
"He sends one of yours to the hospital. You send one of his to the
morgue. That's the Chicago way."
It sounds like a potent mix: Mamet, a Pulitzer Prize-winning
playwright, joining Brian De Palma, Hollywood's dark prince of
high-styled violence, in a movie drawn from an old TV series about
Chicago gangsters.
"The Untouchables" opened with a bang June 3. It became the No.
2 moneymaker at U.S. movie theaters last week, trailing the smash hit
"Beverly ...