Thursday, August 03, 2006


re-watching Michael Mann's 1999 The Insider for the enth time & in a film full of good things big & small surely the standout is Bruce McGill (above) for about 15 seconds, as a Mississippi lawyer, trying to get a deposition into the record over the grinning interference of tobacco hireling Wings Hauser, who gets pushed a bit too far, thunderously turning on his heels and pinning Hauser with a "Would you wipe that smirk off your face" that really does, like one of the assault rifles in "Heat"...
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