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No One Could Tee Up a Bullfrog Like Bill Cobbs


He built a career on wise, one-shot characters, and he made everything from Demolition Man to The Sopranos better because of it.

He says it like he’s reliving a moment that lowered the floor on human depravity, even though it was already subterranean.At the same time that the brilliant I’ll Fly Away struggled to be seen by an indifferent home audience, Cobbs’s big-screen career delivered a series of high-profile roles in Hollywood blockbusters, many of them racially problematic. ” Though theoretically a descendant of 1970s blaxploitation thrillers like Superfly and gangster classics like Scarface(Nino obsessively re-watches the 1983 remake from his drug fortress–cum–bachelor mansion), the film owes more to right-wing cop flicks that are essentially vigilante fantasies with badges. Sam Raimi, a childhood friend of the Coens, was the second unit director on Hudsucker, in charge of the large-scale miniature cityscapes as well as action and stunt sequences, including the scenes of characters falling from great heights through snow.

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