#dean stockwell
Long Island mafia widow Angela de Marco (Michelle Pfeiffer) seeks out a better life in the goofy screwball comedy Married to the Mob (1988, Jonathan Demme; with Dean Stockwell and Alec Baldwin). Some reviews:
“1988 was a defining year in Pfeiffer’s career, thanks in part to her performance as Angela de Marco, the widow of a Mafia enforcer, in Jonathan Demme’s Married to the Mob. The film is hilarious, sometimes even downright farcical in its approach to mob life. That could easily lead an actress to play Angela too broad, especially as she’s so eager to discard her old life. Pfeiffer has great comedic moments here, particularly in the climax when she licks her lips before throwing an intense punch. But despite her big hair, accent, and haphazard walk, it’s the quiet longing in Angela’s eyes that linger most. It’s a hilarious performance anchored by pathos that transforms the film into something genuinely moving.” — Angelica Jade Bastién, “The 10 Essential Roles of Michelle Pfeiffer”,Vulture(June 2017)
“None of it would work without Michelle Pfeiffer, who gets a few choice line-readings as disgruntled mob wife Angela de Marco — her pouty Long Island inflection on the declaration “I want a divorce!” is a particular highlight — but she’s an essential grounding force for the goofballs in her orbit… Demme reserves a lot of genuine feeling for Angela, whose biographical particulars (raised in Queens, one semester at a beauty academy, great follicles) virtually guaranteed that she would end up with a slickster like “Cucumber” Frank de Marco. As much as Demme surrounds her with tacky nouveau-riche décor and colorful eccentrics, Angela’s shot at a second chance in life is seen as courageous and hard-won. She’s pounded the pavement like the rest of the stiffs who circle the classified ads and trudge from one humiliating job interview to the next; it’s a steep drop from the Valium haze of her suburban life to the humble office of a leering Chicken Lickin’ manager… As single-mother empowerment stories go, Married to the Mob stands up to many more austere treatments, owing to Demme and Pfeiffer’s unironic commitment to the character’s plight.” — Scott Tobias, AV Club (July 2009)
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ROBERT DEAN STOCKWELL (March 5, 1936-November 7, 2021 )
He started acting in 1945, with The Valley of Decision, and with occasional breaks, his career continued for the next seventy years. Among his most well-known roles was Rear Admiral Albert “Al” Calavicci on Quantum Leap. He was an accomplished actor, artist and environmentalist.
I will always admire Dean for his passion towards his art and his work. He will be dearly missed.
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Jason Robards, Dean Stockwell, Katharine Hepburn and Ralph Richardson in Long Day’s Journey Into Night(1962)
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Blue Velvet (1986) dir. by David Lynch.
A piece of Twin Peaks, in periods erotic, in periods genius, in periods plain bad, in periods something in between. Dean Stockwell as Ben is all I could wish for, except I wish he played a part in the actual plot.
5.0
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quantum leap aired from March 26, 1989, to May 5, 1993 but set in the then future of 1999 even though Sam Beckett time travels to the past all the clothes Al wears are from the “future” (and the evil leapers which we see once or twice.)
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quantum leap aired from March 26, 1989, to May 5, 1993 but set in the then future of 1999 even though Sam Beckett time travels to the past all the clothes Al wears are from the “future"
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quantum leap aired from March 26, 1989, to May 5, 1993 but set in the then future of 1999 even though Sam Beckett time travels to the past all the clothes Al wears are from the “future"
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