Billy Bathgate
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discussed in biography
- In Robert Benton: The 1990s and beyond
Doctorow’s Billy Bathgate. The 1991 drama centres on a kid from the Bronx (Loren Dean) who becomes involved with notorious gangster Dutch Schultz (Hoffman) and the widowed moll (Nicole Kidman) of a rival (Bruce Willis). Despite a strong cast and a script by Tom Stoppard, the…
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Hoffman
- In Dustin Hoffman
…projects such as Hook (1991), Billy Bathgate (1991), Hero (1992), Outbreak (1995), and Sphere (1998), the actor returned to form as a sleazy, fame-hungry Hollywood producer who coconspires to fool the entire world into believing that the United States is at war with Albania in Wag the Dog (1997), a…
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Kidman
- In Nicole Kidman: Early life and career
…included a gangster-loving socialite in Billy Bathgate (1991), an aspiring television journalist in the black comedy To Die For (1995), and an American living in Europe during the 1800s in Jane Campion’s 1996 screen adaptation of Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady (1996).
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