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120-691: Andrés Arturo García Menéndez (born April 12, 1956), known professionally as Andy García , is an American actor, director and producer. He first rose to prominence acting in Brian De Palma 's The Untouchables (1987) alongside Kevin Costner , Sean Connery , and Robert De Niro . He continued to act in films such as Stand and Deliver (1988), and Internal Affairs (1990). He then costarred in Francis Ford Coppola 's The Godfather Part III (1990) as Vincent Mancini , for which he

240-664: A Golden Globe Award nomination. In the 1990s, García appeared in the Mike Figgis film Internal Affairs , in which he engages in a battle of wits with a corrupt fellow police officer, played by Richard Gere . In 1992, he played a cynical everyman in Stephen Frears ' Hero starring Dustin Hoffman , Geena Davis , and Joan Cusack . In 1994, he played the enabling husband of an alcoholic played by Meg Ryan in When

360-529: A Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award nominations. He also starred in Steven Soderbergh 's Ocean's Eleven (2001) and its sequels, Ocean's Twelve (2004) and Ocean's Thirteen (2007). In 2005, García directed and starred in the film The Lost City alongside Dustin Hoffman and Bill Murray . He also starred in New York, I Love You (2008), the dramedy City Island (2009),

480-472: A physics student, De Palma became enraptured with the filmmaking process after viewing Citizen Kane and Vertigo . After receiving his undergraduate degree in 1962, De Palma enrolled at the newly coed Sarah Lawrence College as a graduate student in their theater department, earning an M.A. in the discipline in 1964 and becoming one of the first male students among a female population. Once there, influences as various as drama teacher Wilford Leach ,

600-510: A "Previously on..." montage of clips of up to six episodes preceded the roll call. Author Steven Johnson wrote of the importance to viewers of each episode's roll calls, saying that they "performed a crucial function, introducing some of the primary threads and providing helpful contextual explanations for them." Also, almost all episodes took place over the course of a single day, many concluding with Capt. Frank Furillo ( Daniel J. Travanti ) and public defender Joyce Davenport ( Veronica Hamel ) in

720-505: A $ 5 million budget. De Palma's output has slowed since the release of Redacted , with subsequent projects often falling into development hell , due mostly to creative differences. In 2012, his film Passion starring Rachel McAdams and Noomi Rapace was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 69th Venice International Film Festival but received mixed reviews and was financially unsuccessful. De Palma's next project

840-510: A 1966 movie about The Responsive Eye op-art exhibit curated by William Seitz for MOMA in 1965. In an interview with Joseph Gelmis from 1969, De Palma described the film as "very good and very successful. It's distributed by Pathe Contemporary and makes lots of money. I shot it in four hours, with synched sound. I had two other guys shooting people's reactions to the paintings, and the paintings themselves." Dionysus in '69 (1969)

960-428: A Drama Series. Season 7: Up until now, each episode of the series started with the morning roll call. Episodes from season 7 break away from tradition, showing characters at home or working. The roll call becomes a minor part of the beginning. Some episodes do not show roll call at all. Officer Patrick Flaherty ( Robert Clohessy ) and Officer Tina Russo ( Megan Gallagher ) joined this season in an attempt to rekindle

1080-613: A Man Loves a Woman . In 1995, he portrayed a tragic criminal in Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead alongside Christopher Lloyd , Steve Buscemi , and Christopher Walken . He starred as a hotshot lawyer in the 1996 Sidney Lumet drama Night Falls on Manhattan alongside Richard Dreyfus , and James Gandolfini . He played mobster Lucky Luciano in Hoodlum (1997) alongside Tim Roth , and Laurence Fishburne . He portrayed

1200-471: A background person/object in focus. Slow-motion is frequently used in his films to increase suspense. De Palma has been married and divorced three times, to actress Nancy Allen (1979–1983), producer Gale Anne Hurd (1991–1993), and Darnell Gregorio (1995–1997). He has one daughter from his marriage to Hurd, and one daughter from his marriage to Gregorio. He resides in Manhattan , New York . De Palma

1320-588: A complete series set. Beverly Hills Buntz aired on NBC from November 5, 1987, to April 22, 1988. It was a half-hour comedy, a hybrid between light private eye fare and a sitcom . Main character Norman Buntz ( Dennis Franz ) quits Hill Street, moves to Beverly Hills with Sid "The Snitch" Thurston ( Peter Jurasik ) and becomes a private investigator. Thirteen episodes were filmed, though only nine were broadcast. Hill Street Blues has inspired parodies, storylines, characters, and cultural references in numerous media vehicles. In 1991, Krisalis Software released

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1440-600: A cop trying to save his gravely ill son in the 1998 action thriller Desperate Measures starring Michael Keaton and Marcia Gay Harden . In 2000, García starred and produced the HBO film, For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story . The film is about Cuba's jazz scene and the life of trumpeter and composer Arturo Sandoval . It starred Gloria Estefan as Maria, and Charles S. Dutton as jazz legend Dizzy Gillespie . For his performance, García received Primetime Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations. He portrayed

1560-572: A different time." In the same interview, he said he was "glad" that the film had become a "a favorite of the gay community". David Thomson wrote in his entry for De Palma, "There is a self-conscious cunning in De Palma's work, ready to control everything except his own cruelty and indifference." Matt Zoller Seitz objected to this characterisation, writing that there are films from the director which can be seen as "straightforwardly empathetic and/or moralistic". His life and career in his own words

1680-410: A domestic situation, often in bed, discussing how their respective days went. The series dealt with real-life issues and employed professional jargon and slang to a greater extent than had been seen before on television. Each week after roll call, from Season 1 until Michael Conrad's death, partway through Season 4, Sgt. Phil Esterhaus would say, "Let's be careful out there." Sgt. Lucy Bates continued

1800-472: A few failures along the way ( Snake Eyes , Mission to Mars , The Bonfire of the Vanities ), but look at the range here, and reflect that these movies contain treasure for those who admire the craft as well as the story, who sense the glee with which De Palma manipulates images and characters for the simple joy of being good at it. It's not just that he sometimes works in the style of Hitchcock, but that he has

1920-429: A larger budget than Carrie , though the consensus view at the time was that De Palma was repeating himself, with diminishing returns. As a film, it retains De Palma's considerable visual flair, but points more toward his work in mainstream entertainments such as Mission: Impossible , the thematic complex thriller for which he is now better known. The 1980s were marked by some of De Palma's best known films including

2040-527: A look and style inspired by the 1977 documentary The Police Tapes , in which filmmakers used handheld cameras to follow police officers in the South Bronx . Season 1 : The pilot aired on Thursday, January 15, 1981, at 10:00 pm, which would be the show's time slot for nearly its entire run. The second episode aired two nights later; the next week followed a similar pattern (episode 3 on Thursday, episode 4 on Saturday). NBC had ordered 13 episodes and

2160-408: A new film of his opens, everything he has done before seems to have been preparation for it." In his review of Femme Fatale , Roger Ebert wrote about the director: "De Palma deserves more honor as a director. Consider also these titles: Sisters , Blow Out , The Fury , Dressed to Kill , Carrie , Scarface , Wise Guys , Casualties of War , Carlito's Way , Mission: Impossible . Yes, there are

2280-613: A particular crime scene. The precinct bowling team is the "Hill Street Blue Ballers." The ranks and titles held by the characters are listed below when pertinent; Some characters held more than one rank over the course of the series, and in those cases, both ranks are shown. Hill Street Blues featured many guest actors who were establishing careers in television and film. It also occasionally featured well-known character actors. Notable guest actors include: Initially, Hill Street Blues received rave reviews from critics but had dismal Nielsen ratings. Early schedule switching did not help;

2400-428: A poor relationship with his father, and would secretly follow him to record his adulterous behavior; this would eventually inspire the teenage character played by Keith Gordon in De Palma's 1980 film Dressed to Kill . When he was in high school, he built computers. He won a regional science-fair prize for a project titled "An Analog Computer to Solve Differential Equations ". Enrolled at Columbia University as

2520-549: A reassessment and found acclaim. De Palma directed the music video for Bruce Springsteen 's single " Dancing in the Dark " the same year. In 1987, De Palma directed the crime film The Untouchables loosely based on the book of the same name , adapted by David Mamet . The film stars Kevin Costner , Andy Garcia , Robert De Niro , and Sean Connery , the latter of whom won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for

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2640-604: A result of national distribution laws was not available east of the Mississippi until that year, implying the location is west of the Mississippi. Though most of the series' scenes were filmed in Los Angeles (on location and at CBS Studio Center in Studio City ), the series' introduction shows exterior shots entirely of Chicago and cutaway shots from Chicago were used in production, with police cars resembling

2760-403: A screenplay by Oliver Stone . The film received mixed reviews with its negative depictions of ethnic stereotypes, as well as its violence and profanity. It has since been re-evaluated and became a cult classic . The following year he made another neo-noir erotic thriller, Body Double (1984), starring Craig Wasson and Melanie Griffith . The film also received mixed reviews but has since had

2880-408: A series from MTM Productions , which assigned Bochco and Kozoll to the project. The pilot was produced in 1980, but was held back as a mid-season replacement so as not to get lost among the other programs debuting in the fall of 1980. Barbara Bosson , who was married to Bochco, had the idea to fashion the series into four- or five-episode story "arcs" . Robert Butler directed the pilot and developed

3000-706: A short role alongside Angela Lansbury in the first episode of Murder, She Wrote as "1st white tough", in 1984. He played the role of a gang member in " Hill Street Station ", the first episode of TV series Hill Street Blues . He appeared in a supporting role in The Mean Season in 1985, alongside Kurt Russell . In 1987, Garciá received an acting breakthrough in Brian De Palma 's crime drama The Untouchables . The film starred Kevin Costner , Sean Connery , Charles Martin Smith , Patricia Clarkson , and Robert De Niro . The film follows Eliot Ness as he forms

3120-513: A shot of a Regional Transportation Authority suburban train arriving at the Chicago and North Western Terminal. However, in the penultimate episode of season 2, a street sign for Los Angeles Street – a thoroughfare in downtown Los Angeles – is visible outside the fictitious Hotel Doane. There are several mentions through the series of characters going down to "the shore", which implies a lake or oceanfront setting. One indication of setting within

3240-411: A somewhat "soap opera-ish" period according to Bochco. New characters included Sgt. Stanislaus Jablonski ( Robert Prosky ) and Det. Patsy Mayo ( Mimi Kuzyk ). Det. Garibaldi was now a regular, while Fay Furillo became a full-time member of the squad room as a victim's advocate. Bochco was dismissed at season's end by then-MTM President Arthur Price. The firing was due to Bochco's cost overruns, coupled with

3360-422: A successful franchise . De Palma's work after Mission: Impossible has been less well received. His ensuing films Snake Eyes (1998), Mission to Mars (2000), and Femme Fatale (2002) all failed at the box office and received generally poor reviews, though Femme Fatale has since been revived in the eyes of many film critics and became a cult classic . His 2006 adaptation of The Black Dahlia

3480-445: A unique style of camera usage for weeknight television productions, such as filming close in with action cuts rapidly between stories. Rather than studio (floor) cameras, handhelds were used to enhance this style. Overheard, off-screen dialogue aurally augmented the " documentary " feel with respect to the filmed action of a scene. Although primarily filmed in Los Angeles (both on location and at CBS Studio Center in Studio City ),

3600-415: A way to capture it on film. I came up with the idea of split-screen, to be able to show the actual audience involvement, to trace the life of the audience and that of the play as they merge in and out of each other." De Palma's most significant features from this decade are Greetings (1968) and Hi, Mom! (1970). Both films star Robert De Niro and espouse a leftist revolutionary viewpoint common to

3720-579: Is an American film director and screenwriter. With a career spanning over 50 years, he is best known for work in the suspense , crime and psychological thriller genres. De Palma was a leading member of the New Hollywood generation of film directors. His films include mainstream box office hits such as Carrie (1976), Dressed to Kill (1980), Scarface (1983), The Untouchables (1987), and Mission: Impossible (1996), as well as cult favorites such as Sisters (1972), Phantom of

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3840-563: Is going to happen to them?" His films have also been interpreted as feminist and examined for their perceived queer affinities. In Film Comment 's "Queer and Now and Then" column on Femme Fatale , film critic Michael Koresky writes that "De Palma's films radiate an undeniable queer energy" and notes the "intense appeal" De Palma's films have for gay critics. In her book The Erotic Thriller in Contemporary Cinema , Linda Ruth Williams writes that "De Palma understood

3960-523: Is often cited as a leading member of the New Hollywood generation of film directors, a distinct pedigree who either emerged from film schools or are overtly cine-literate. His contemporaries include Martin Scorsese , Paul Schrader , John Milius , George Lucas , Francis Ford Coppola , Steven Spielberg , John Carpenter , and Ridley Scott . His artistry in directing and use of cinematography and suspense in several of his films has often been compared to

4080-784: Is one of his all-time favorite films, and that after watching Scarface he knew how to make his own film. John Travolta 's performance as Jack Terry in Blow Out even resulted in Tarantino casting him as Vincent Vega in his 1994 film Pulp Fiction , which would go on to reinvigorate Travolta's then-declining career. Tarantino also placed Carrie at number eight in a list of his favorite films. Critics who frequently admire De Palma's work include Pauline Kael and Roger Ebert . Kael wrote in her review of Blow Out , "At forty, Brian De Palma has more than twenty years of moviemaking behind him, and he has been growing better and better. Each time

4200-456: Is right and what works. Television author John Javna described it as "a cop show for the Big Chill generation, discovering that it takes all of their energy to keep even a few of their ideals alive while they struggle to succeed." Almost every episode began with a pre-credit sequence (or teaser ) consisting of (mission) briefing and roll call to start the day shift. From season three on,

4320-519: Is roughly a three-hour drive from Chicago via I-55 ). The show also contains a few references to locations in Buffalo. In one episode, Lt. Hunter talks about needing to get rid of tickets for the "Sabres." Buffalo place names mentioned on the show include the Kubiak Lodge, Ganson St. and the canals, Gabriel's Gate bar, Decker St. and West Utica St. Show writer Steven Bochco attended college at

4440-427: Is shot dead during a vehicle stop. However, later on the producers decided that Coffey should remain, so the scene was edited to show him being seriously wounded and taken to a hospital. (The character would eventually be killed in the sixth season.) This echoes the shooting and resurrection of Renko and Hill at the beginning of the season, providing unintentional thematic bookends to the first season. In early episodes,

4560-692: Is visible over the judge's left shoulder in the courtroom scenes in the Season 2 episode "Fruits of the Poisonous Tree," suggesting that the location is Chicago. Some outdoor scenes, particularly in the first two seasons, capture palm trees and other Southern California flora not found in the Midwest or Northeastern United States . While most vehicles sport generic, stateless license plates, 1980s-era California license plates are easily spotted on many large trucks used on set. Hill Street Blues refers to

4680-563: The Blue Line subway and Mercy Hospital . Both of the characters played by Dennis Franz employ a heavy Chicago-type accent, also employed by Dan Aykroyd in The Blues Brothers , a motion picture set and filmed in Chicago. In a Season 5 episode, during an undercover detail, Detective Belker is knocked unconscious by a criminal and stashed in the luggage compartment of an interstate bus. A package labeled "Springfield ILL" (using

4800-588: The East River ", implying New York City. In Season 2, Episode 3, Sergeant Esterhaus references guarding "the national guard armory in Newark ", implying a location in or near New Jersey . Season 2 episode 18 shows an elevated subway train on which the transit agency " CTA " can clearly be seen, suggesting Chicago. Throughout the series, characters occasionally mention well-known Chicago street names, such as Michigan Avenue , or other Chicago-related landmarks, such as

4920-652: The Greenwich Village filmmaking scene. De Niro was unknown at the time; the credits mistakenly display his name as "Robert Denero". The film is noteworthy for its invocation of silent film techniques and an insistence on the jump-cut for effect. De Palma followed this style with various small films for the NAACP and the Treasury Department . During the 1960s, De Palma began making a living producing documentary films, notably The Responsive Eye ,

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5040-594: The HBO movie My Dinner with Hervé alongside Peter Dinklage and Jamie Dornan . The film received generally positive reviews from critics, and received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Television Movie . In 2020, García starred in Charles McDougall 's comedic film Ana . Also that year, he starred in Thor Freudenthal 's critically acclaimed coming of age drama Words on Bathroom Walls . The following year, he made an uncredited cameo in

5160-717: The Heroes & Icons network. Seasons one through seven can also be viewed on Hulu and Star . Season three can be viewed as streaming video on commercial sites and is also available in many countries from Channel 4 on YouTube. Series producers deliberately left the exact city in which the series was set vague and a variety of methods are employed to imply different general locations. The call letters of local TV stations were usually obscured to avoid showing whether they began with "W" (the Federal Communications Commission designation for stations east of

5280-603: The Maysles brothers , Michelangelo Antonioni , Jean-Luc Godard , Andy Warhol , and Alfred Hitchcock impressed upon De Palma the many styles and themes that would shape his own cinema in the coming decades. An early association with a young Robert De Niro resulted in The Wedding Party . The film, which was co-directed with Leach and producer Cynthia Munroe, had been shot in 1963 but remained unreleased until 1969, when De Palma's star had risen sufficiently within

5400-661: The October 7 Hamas-led attack on Israel in 2023 that killed 1,200, García signed an open letter by Creative Community for Peace condemning the killings and calling the world to "stand with Israel as it defends itself against a terrorist regime in Gaza that seeks Israel’s destruction." García is Catholic , and a naturalized citizen of the United States. Miscellaneous awards Brian De Palma Brian Russell De Palma ( [de ˈpalma] ; born September 11, 1940)

5520-821: The Untouchables law enforcement team to bring Al Capone to justice during the Prohibition era . It received widespread critical acclaim and was a financial success. In 1988, García played the main role in the music video clip of the British boyband Breathe. The song is called: "How can I fall" and reached #3 in the Billboard hot 100 in 1988. In 1989, García acted in the Ridley Scott action thriller Black Rain with Michael Douglas as Detective Charlie Vincent. The film received mixed reviews from critics but

5640-604: The revolution . Following Fidel Castro's death in November 2016, García criticized his legacy, stating: "It is necessary for me to express the deep sorrow that I feel for all the Cuban people...that have suffered the atrocities and repression caused by Fidel Castro and his totalitarian regime." In 2018, García attended a fundraiser event for Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, which raised $ 60 million. Following

5760-428: The 1949 novel of the same name by Edward Streeter . Time praised García on his comedic turn writing, "Garcia carries the film ably with his gruff elegance". García appeared in the action comedy film Expend4bles as Marsh, a CIA agent who is also a double agent and the main antagonist of the film. Garcia met his now wife, Marivi Lorido, when they were both students at Florida International University during

5880-438: The 30-plus years since it debuted." He compared Hill Street Blues to Casablanca , which was so influential on other films that "if you come to see it for the first time after a lifetime of watching the copies, it could be at risk of playing like a bundle of clichés—even though it invented those clichés." In 1993, TV Guide named the series its All-Time Best Cop Show in an issue celebrating 40 years of television. In 1997,

6000-574: The 60 Greatest Dramas of All Time and #23 of the 60 Best Series. Also in 2013, the Writers Guild of America ranked it #15 on their list of the 101 Best Written TV Series. 20th Century Fox released the first two seasons of Hill Street Blues on DVD in Region 1 in 2006. Both releases contain special features including gag reel, deleted scenes, commentary tracks and featurettes. On December 5, 2013, Shout! Factory announced its acquisition of

6120-471: The Bates/Coffey relationship of years past. Stan Jablonski became a secondary character part way through this season, and when Travanti announced he would not return the next year, the producers decided to end the show in 1987. The program was also moved to Tuesday nights almost midway through the season after nearly six years to make way for L.A. Law on Thursdays. During this season the show featured

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6240-589: The Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University ) in Pittsburgh . The run-down, shabby, drug-ridden impression of Pittsburgh's Hill District that Bochco acquired was apparently part of the inspiration for the show. He intended the setting to resemble several cities, including Chicago, New York, Pittsburgh and Buffalo. Although the city is never named, the Illinois state flag

6360-472: The Mississippi River) or "K" (signifying a station west of the Mississippi River). An episode in season three specifically mentions a radio station of WDPD, suggesting a city east of the Mississippi. However, in bar scenes throughout the series, characters are frequently shown drinking bottles of beer that strongly resemble Coors Beer . Coors did not obtain national distribution until 1986, and as

6480-554: The Paradise (1974), Blow Out (1981), Body Double (1984), Casualties of War (1989), and Carlito's Way (1993). His direction often makes use of quotations from other films or cinematic styles, and bears the influence of filmmakers such as Alfred Hitchcock , Jean-Luc Godard , and Michelangelo Antonioni . His work has been criticized for its violence and sexual content but has also been championed by American critics such as Roger Ebert and Pauline Kael . De Palma

6600-401: The Paradise (1974), and Obsession (1976). In November 1976, De Palma released a film adaptation of the 1974 novel Carrie by Stephen King . Though some see the psychic thriller as De Palma's bid for a blockbuster, the project was in fact small, underfunded by United Artists , and well under the cultural radar during the early months of production, as the source novel had yet to climb

6720-508: The air for four episodes that are thrown away in nine days? People barely saw us. What the f--k was that? Everyone was up in arms and screaming at NBC, and NBC was screaming at them. If they had dumped Hill Street Blues they would've been called the idiots of all time. Their being in that weak position worked in our favor — but also threatened us all the time." The series later aired in reruns on TV Land , Bravo , AmericanLife TV , and NuvoTV . It ran for several years, from September 2015, on

6840-603: The arrogant Las Vegas casino owner Terry Benedict in Steven Soderbergh 's Ocean's Eleven (2001), a remake of the 1960 Rat Pack caper movie starring George Clooney , Brad Pitt , Matt Damon , and Julia Roberts . The film was a massive commercial success earning $ 450 million at the box office. He also appeared in the sequel, Ocean's Twelve (2004), and in the third film, Ocean's Thirteen (2007). He co-wrote, directed, and starred in The Lost City alongside Dustin Hoffman and Bill Murray . In 2005, he appeared in

6960-495: The bestseller list. De Palma gravitated toward the project and changed crucial plot elements based upon his own predilections, not the saleability of the novel. The cast was mostly young and relatively new, though Sissy Spacek and John Travolta had gained attention for previous work in, respectively, film and episodic sitcoms . Carrie became De Palma's first genuine box-office success, garnering Spacek and Piper Laurie Oscar nominations for their performances. Pre-production for

7080-479: The blue uniforms worn by many police officers in the United States and, by extension, the depressing nature of inner-city police work. The phrase is uttered only once in the series, apart from introductions such as "Previously on Hill Street Blues ." It is spoken by Detective Emil Schneider ( Dolph Sweet ) in the first-season episode "Gator Bait." Schneider says it in a slightly mocking tone, in reference to officers Hill and Renko, who he feels are out of their league at

7200-529: The cinematic potency of dangerous fucking, perhaps earlier than his feminist detractors". Robin Wood considered Sisters an overtly feminist film, writing that "one can define the monster of Sisters as women's liberation; adding only that the film follows the time-honored horror film tradition of making the monster emerge as the most sympathetic character and its emotional center." Pauline Kael's review of Casualties of War , "A Wounded Apparition", describes

7320-529: The color schemes of Chicago Police Department patrol vehicles. Chicago's 7th District Police Station is frequently shown in cutaway shots and also during the closing credits. This station was closed by the Chicago Police in 1998 and later repurposed as the headquarters for the University of Illinois at Chicago police. The first episode of season three shows both a TV camera labeled "WREQ", and

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7440-522: The comedy film Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar starring Kirsten Wiig and Jamie Dornan . That same year, he starred in the action films Redemption Day and the Guy Ritchie film Wrath of Man . In 2022 he starred in the comedy Big Gold Brick . He also starred opposite Gloria Estefan again in the romantic comedy HBO Max film Father of the Bride . It is the third filmed version of

7560-486: The director writing, "De Palma has sprung to the place that Robert Altman achieved with films such as McCabe & Mrs. Miller and Nashville and that Francis Ford Coppola reached with The Godfather films—that is, to the place where genre is transcended and what we're moved by is an artist's vision...it's a great movie. Travolta and Allen are radiant performers". De Palma then directed crime film Scarface (1983) starring Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer with

7680-400: The dramatic impact of a certain scene De Palma has employed a 360-degree camera pan . Slow sweeping, panning and tracking shots are often used throughout his films, often through precisely-choreographed long takes lasting for minutes without cutting. Split focus shots, often referred to as "di-opt", are used by De Palma to emphasize the foreground person/object while simultaneously keeping

7800-459: The entire cast had been replaced. It was then revealed that this was, in fact, the night shift. The action then cut to the day shift pursuing their after-work activities. Another unique episode from this season explained through flashbacks how Furillo and Davenport met and fell in love. This was the first season that Travanti and Hamel were not nominated for the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor/Actress in

7920-501: The episode "Grace Under Pressure" was ranked number 49 on TV Guide ' s 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time . When the list was revised in 2009, "Freedom's Last Stand" was ranked number 57. In 1998, Entertainment Weekly named it in the top 20 television shows of all time, saying it "...took the cop show and turned it upside down". In 2002, Hill Street Blues ranked number 14 on TV Guide ' s 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time , and in 2013 TV Guide ranked it #1 in its list of

8040-483: The era in which they were released. Greetings was entered into the 19th Berlin International Film Festival , where it won a Silver Bear award. His other major film from this period is the slasher comedy Murder a la Mod . Each of these films experiments with narrative and intertextuality , reflecting De Palma's stated intention to become the "American Godard " while integrating several of

8160-495: The erotic psychological thriller Dressed to Kill (1980) starring Michael Caine , and Angie Dickinson . Although the film received critical admiration, it also received criticism and controversy for its negative depiction of the transgender community. The following year he directed the neo-noir mystery thriller Blow Out (1981) starring John Travolta , Nancy Allen , and John Lithgow . The film received critical acclaim. The New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael praised

8280-440: The fact that the show had achieved the 100-episode milestone needed to successfully syndicate it. Betty Thomas won an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series this season. However, at the awards ceremony, Barry Bremen , aka "The Great Imposter", rushed the stage ahead of Thomas and claimed she was unable to attend. He then claimed the award and left the stage, confusing viewers and robbing Thomas of her moment in

8400-431: The fears that women were expressing in relation to the film". De Palma has also expressed contrition for the depiction of a transgender murderer in the film, saying in a 2016 interview "I don't know what the transgender community would think [of the film now]... Obviously I realize that it's not good for their image to be transgender and also be a psychopathic murderer. But I think that [perception] passes with time. We're in

8520-441: The film as "feminist" and notes that "De Palma was always involved in examining (and sometimes satirizing) victimization, but he was often accused of being a victimizer". Helen Grace , in a piece for Lola , writes that upon seeing Dressed to Kill amidst calls for a boycott from feminist groups Women Against Violence Against Women and Women Against Pornography , that the film "seemed to say more about masculine anxiety than about

8640-419: The film had coincided with the casting process for George Lucas 's Star Wars , and many of the actors cast in De Palma's film had been earmarked as contenders for Lucas's movie, and vice versa. The "shock ending" finale is effective even while it upholds horror-film convention, its suspense sequences are buttressed by teen comedy tropes, and its use of split-screen , split-diopter and slow motion shots tell

8760-740: The film in 2012, and García himself, Anthony Hopkins , and Annette Bening were announced as stars. Filming was originally to have begun in January 2013, but due to delays, Hopkins left the project in 2014 and was replaced by Jon Voight . Towards the end of the 2010s, García had a career resurgence. He starred in four films in 2018. He appeared as Fernando Cienfuegos in the critical and commercial success Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again alongside Cher , Amanda Seyfried , Lily James , Colin Firth , Stellan Skarsgård , and Pierce Brosnan . When asked about singing with Cher , García told NBC's Today show, "It

8880-458: The film. It received critical acclaim and box-office success. De Palma's Vietnam War film Casualties of War (1989) won critical praise but performed poorly in theatres and The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) was a notorious failure with both critics and audiences. De Palma then had subsequent successes with Raising Cain (1992) and Carlito's Way (1993) with Mission: Impossible (1996) becoming his highest-grossing film and starting

9000-420: The first lesbian recurring character on a major network; the character was police officer Kate McBride, played by Lindsay Crouse . This was the only season that Bruce Weitz (Det. Mick Belker) was not nominated for the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. Only Betty Thomas was nominated, making her the sole member of the cast to be nominated in all seasons. This was the only season for which

9120-450: The freedom to create a series that brought together a number of fresh ideas in TV drama. Each episode featured intertwined storylines, some of which were resolved within the episode, with others developing throughout a season. The conflicts between the work lives and private lives of the characters were also significant. The series featured a strong focus on the workplace struggle between what

9240-570: The last two episodes of the Turkish TV series Valley of the Wolves , along with Sharon Stone . In 2008, he starred in the first segment of New York, I Love You which was directed by Jiang Wen starring Hayden Christensen and Rachel Bilson . Since 2009, García has been slated to direct the film Hemingway & Fuentes about writer Ernest Hemingway , co-written by García and Hemingway's niece Hilary Hemingway . They secured financing for

9360-524: The late 1950s and appealed to his background in mathematics and avant-garde storytelling. Its unconventional unfolding of plot (exemplified in its mathematical layout of dialogue) and its stress on perception have analogs in De Palma's filmmaking. He sought to adapt it numerous times, though the project would carry a substantial price tag, and has yet to appear on-screen ( Steven Spielberg 's 2002 adaptation of Philip K. Dick 's Minority Report bears striking similarities to De Palma's visual style and some of

9480-485: The mid-70's when they first saw each other in a Miami nightclub. The couple dated for seven years before tying the knot on September 24, 1982. The family divides their time between Toluca Lake, Los Angeles and Key Biscayne, Florida . The couple shares four children: Dominik García-Lorido , Daniella, Alessandra, and Andrés. Dominik was born on August 16, 1983, in Miami, Florida. She is married to Michael Doneger . Daniella

9600-663: The nerve to." The influential French film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma has placed five of De Palma's films ( Carlito's Way , Mission: Impossible , Snake Eyes , Mission to Mars , and Redacted ) on their annual top ten list, with Redacted placing first on the 2008 list. The magazine also listed Carlito's Way as the greatest film of the 1990s. Julie Salamon has written that critics have accused De Palma of being "a perverse misogynist", to which De Palma has responded with, "I'm always attacked for having an erotic, sexist approach – chopping up women, putting women in peril. I'm making suspense movies! What else

9720-424: The new show-runners would receive royalties. Bosson's departure, however, was voluntary. She left after a salary conflict with the new executive producer who, according to the actress, had also wanted her character, Fay, to go back to being a shrewish "thorn in her ex-husband's side". The season premiere opened with a roll call filled with officers never before seen on the show, briefly fooling viewers into thinking

9840-460: The old three-letter Postal Service state abbreviation) is next to him. When he is finally freed from the compartment and told he is in Springfield, it is still daytime and after he rides a bus back to his origin, it is now early evening and the other detective at his detail is not alarmed when Belker explains his absence as "following a tail", implying the distance was not very great (Springfield

9960-406: The opening theme had several clearly audible edits; this was replaced by a longer, unedited version partway through the second season. The end credits for the pilot differed from the rest of the series in that the background still shot of the station house was completely different. Ranking 87th out of 96 shows, it became the lowest-rated program ever renewed for a second season at the time. However, it

10080-539: The other before going on to direct a different genre, but would always return to his familiar territory. Because of the subject matter and graphic violence of some of De Palma's films, such as Dressed to Kill , Scarface and Body Double , they are often at the center of controversy with the Motion Picture Association of America , film critics and the viewing public. De Palma frequently quotes and references other directors' work. His early work

10200-583: The rights to the series in Region 1, releasing Hill Street Blues: The Complete Series on DVD on April 29, 2014. In late 2014, Shout! began releasing single-season sets. In Region 2, Channel 4 DVD released the first two seasons on DVD in the UK in 2006. In Region 4, Shock Records released the first three seasons on DVD in Australia on December 4, 2013, and the remaining four seasons on April 30, 2014. On December 4, 2013, Shock Records also released

10320-674: The romantic comedy At Middleton (2013), and the crime thriller Kill the Messenger (2014). He has had supporting roles in Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again , Book Club , The Mule , the HBO television movie My Dinner with Hervé (all 2018), and the title role in the Father of the Bride remake (2022). In 2005, he won both a Grammy and a Latin Grammy Award for producing Cuban musician Cachao 's record ¡Ahora Sí! García

10440-404: The scripts. A less muted version of the closing theme was played over the end credits. Season 3: Kozoll left the show at the end of season two, replaced for the most part by Anthony Yerkovich (who later created Miami Vice after leaving Hill Street Blues at the end of this season) and David Milch . This was the show's most popular season in terms of viewership, as it finished at #21. This

10560-477: The season in February 1984 in a memorable send-off episode, " Grace Under Pressure ". Det. Harry Garibaldi ( Ken Olin ) was introduced at the end of the season as a temporary replacement for Det. J.D. LaRue ( Kiel Martin ) who was supposedly suffering from mononucleosis . The show won its fourth and final Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series this season. Season 5: The show changed drastically this season, entering

10680-469: The season was supposed to end on May 25 with a minor cliffhanger (the resolution of Sgt. Esterhaus' wedding). Instead, growing critical acclaim prompted NBC to order an additional four episodes to air during the May sweeps . Bochco and Kozoll quickly fashioned this into a new story arc, which aired as two two-hour episodes to close the season. In the first season's original ending, Officer Joe Coffey ( Ed Marinaro )

10800-537: The series is set in a generic unnamed inner-city location with a feel of a U.S. urban center in the Midwest or Northeast . Bochco reportedly intended this fictional city to be a hybrid of Chicago , Buffalo , and Pittsburgh . The show's opening and closing and cut-scenes were filmed in Chicago. The program's focus on failure and those at the bottom of the social scale is pronounced, in contrast to Bochco's later project L.A. Law . Inspired by police procedural detective novels such as Ed McBain 's 1956 Cop Hater ,

10920-409: The series won eight Emmy Awards , a debut season record surpassed only by The West Wing , in 2000 . The show won a total of 26 Emmy Awards (out of 98 Emmy Award nominations) during its run, including four consecutive wins for Outstanding Drama Series . MTM Enterprises developed the series on behalf of NBC, appointing Steven Bochco and Michael Kozoll as series writers. The writers were allowed

11040-606: The show has been described as Barney Miller out of doors. The focus on the bitter realities of 1980s urban living was revolutionary for its time. The theme music for Hill Street Blues was written by Mike Post , featuring Larry Carlton on guitar. It was released as a single and became a major US hit, reaching #10 on the Billboard Hot 100 in November 1981, winning the Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance . Pilot: Brandon Tartikoff commissioned

11160-427: The show was broadcast once weekly on four different nights during its first season alone but gradually settled into a Thursday night time slot. The NBC Broadcast Standards Unit deemed it "too violent, too sexy, too grim." The producers described the show as "an hour drama with 13 continuing characters living through a Gordian knot of personal and professional relationships." In a May 1981 review, John J. O'Connor charted

11280-584: The show was given by the Southern-accented character Officer Andy Renko when he stated in the season one episode "Politics as Usual": "Just drop that cowboy stuff. I was born in New Jersey, never been west of Chicago in my life", as if to imply that they were in Chicago. In Season 1 episode 12, Captain Furillo informs Lieutenant Hunter that the armored vehicle he was test driving has been found "in

11400-443: The show was not nominated for Outstanding Drama Series. Years after the show had run, Daniel J. Travanti commented: "NBC tried their best to get rid of us, and heaven knows why. They did their best to destroy us and only ordered 13 episodes — that's how confident they weren't. And when did they put us on the air? Jan. 15, 17, 22 and 24. That's disgustingly destructive, stupid and idiotic. There aren't words strong enough. You put us on

11520-445: The show's growing popularity and called it "a comfortable balance between comedy and drama." The choice to include African-Americans as mainstays in the core ensemble cast and to feature several interracial and interethnic cop partnerships drew notice and praise, as did the overlapping plots and examinations of moral conundrums such as police corruption, racism, alcoholism and both interpersonal and institutional forgiveness. The show

11640-422: The story visually rather than through dialogue. As for Lucas's project, De Palma complained in an early viewing of Star Wars that the opening text crawl was poorly written and volunteered to help edit the text to a more concise and engaging form. The financial and critical success of Carrie allowed De Palma to pursue more personal material. The Demolished Man was a novel that had fascinated De Palma since

11760-425: The sun, although she returned and spoke after the ad break. Presenter Peter Graves suggested that the imposter was "on his way to the cooler." Season 6: Major changes occurred as Det. Mayo, Det. Garibaldi, Lt. Ray Calletano ( René Enríquez ), Fay Furillo (Barbara Bosson) and Officer Leo Schnitz ( Robert Hirschfeld ) were all phased out at the start of the season, and Joe Coffey left near the end. The sole addition

11880-435: The themes of The Demolished Man ). The result of his experience with adapting The Demolished Man was the 1978 science fiction psychic thriller film The Fury , starring Kirk Douglas , Carrie Snodgress , John Cassavetes and Amy Irving . The film was admired by Jean-Luc Godard , who featured a clip in his mammoth Histoire(s) du cinéma , and Pauline Kael , who championed both The Fury and De Palma. The film boasted

12000-431: The themes which permeated Hitchcock's work. In 1970, De Palma left New York for Hollywood at age thirty to make Get to Know Your Rabbit ( 1972), starring Orson Welles and Tommy Smothers . Making the film was a crushing experience for De Palma, as Smothers did not like many of De Palma's ideas. Here he made several small, studio and independently released films that included stand-outs Sisters (1972), Phantom of

12120-484: The tradition through the end of Season 4, as a tribute to Conrad. From Season 5 until most of Season 6, Sgt. Stan Jablonski concluded his roll calls with, "Let's go out there and do it to them before they do it to us." At one point, at the suggestion of Det. Mayo, Jablonski softened this to "Let's do our job before they do theirs." From then on, the show changed directions and conclusions (and even roll calls) were dropped. Hill Street Blues employed what was, at that time,

12240-672: The work of Alfred Hitchcock . Psychologists have been intrigued by De Palma's fascination with pathology, by the aberrant behavior aroused in characters who find themselves manipulated by others. De Palma has encouraged and fostered the filmmaking careers of directors such as Mark Romanek and Keith Gordon , the latter of whom collaborated with him twice as an actor, both in 1979's Home Movies and 1980's Dressed to Kill . Filmmakers influenced by De Palma include Terrence Malick , Quentin Tarantino , Ronny Yu , Don Mancini , Nacho Vigalondo , and Jack Thomas Smith . During an interview with De Palma, Quentin Tarantino said that Blow Out

12360-567: Was De Palma's other major documentary from this period. The film records the Performance Group 's performance of Euripides' The Bacchae , starring, amongst others, De Palma regular William Finley . The play is noted for breaking traditional barriers between performers and audience. The film's most striking quality is its extensive use of the split-screen . De Palma recalls that he was "floored" by this performance upon first sight, and in 1973 recounts how he "began to try and figure out

12480-455: Was Lt. Norman Buntz, played by Dennis Franz , who had played a different character, the corrupt "bad guy" Detective Sal Benedetto, in several season 3 episodes. Buntz and Benedetto were doppelgängers . Peter Jurasik played a new recurring character ("Sid the Snitch"), who often teamed with Buntz. In a 1992 interview on Later with Bob Costas , Ken Olin claimed these characters were removed so

12600-628: Was a financial success, earning $ 134 million. In 1989, Francis Ford Coppola cast García as Vincent Mancini , the illegitimate son of Sonny Corleone , in The Godfather Part III (1990). The film stars Al Pacino , Diane Keaton , and Eli Wallach . The film concludes the story of Michael Corleone , the patriarch of the Corleone family , who attempts to legitimize his criminal empire. For his performance, García earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor , as well as

12720-514: Was also the basis for Obsession . Dressed to Kill was a note-for-note homage to Hitchcock's Psycho , including such moments as the surprise death of the lead actress and the exposition scene by the psychiatrist at the end. Film critics have often noted De Palma's penchant for unusual camera angles and compositions. He often frames characters against the background using a canted angle shot . Split-screen techniques have been used to show two separate events happening simultaneously. To emphasize

12840-422: Was also the birth of " Must See TV ", as the show was joined by Cheers , Taxi and Fame . The network promoted Thursdays as "the best night of television on television." Michael Conrad was increasingly absent from the show due to his ongoing, and ultimately unsuccessful, battle with cancer. Season 4: Following his death on November 22, 1983, Michael Conrad's final appearance was broadcast halfway through

12960-558: Was also unsuccessful and is currently the last movie De Palma has directed with backing from Hollywood. A political controversy erupted over the portrayal of US soldiers in De Palma's 2007 film Redacted . Loosely based on the 2006 Mahmudiyah killings by American soldiers in Iraq, the film echoes themes that appeared in Casualties of War . Redacted received a limited release in the United States and grossed less than $ 1 million against

13080-550: Was born Andrés Arturo García Menéndez in Havana , Cuba. His mother, Amelie Menéndez, was an English teacher and his father, René García, was an attorney in Cuba. García has two older siblings, a sister named Tessi and a brother named René. When he was five years old, his family moved to Miami, Florida after the failed 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion . Over a period of several years, they built up a million-dollar perfume/fragrance company. García

13200-507: Was born on January 3, 1988, in Los Angeles, California. She is married to actor, Stephen Borrello and the couple has a daughter named Violette Rose. Alessandra was born on June 20, 1991, in Los Angeles. The fourth child and only son, Andres, was born on January 28, 2002. Andres has gone on to become an established DJ across Los Angeles and Miami. García has often expressed his distaste for the communist regime that has ruled Cuba since

13320-514: Was born on September 11, 1940, in Newark, New Jersey , the youngest of three boys. His Italian-American parents were Vivienne DePalma (née Muti), and Anthony F. DePalma , an orthopedic surgeon who was the son of immigrants from Alberona , Province of Foggia . He was raised in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , and New Hampshire , and attended various Protestant and Quaker schools, eventually graduating from Friends' Central School . He had

13440-595: Was inspired by the films of Jean-Luc Godard . Michelangelo Antonioni 's Blowup and Francis Ford Coppola 's The Conversation plots were used for the basis of Blow Out . The Untouchables ' finale shoot out in the train station is a clear borrowing from the Odessa Steps sequence in Sergei Eisenstein 's The Battleship Potemkin . The main plot from Rear Window was used for Body Double , while it also used elements of Vertigo . Vertigo

13560-455: Was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor . He continued to act in Hollywood films such as Stephen Frears ' Hero (1992), the romantic drama When a Man Loves a Woman (1994), and the action thriller Desperate Measures (1998). In 2000, he produced and acted in the HBO television film, For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story (2000), where he received

13680-426: Was only renewed for ten episodes. A full order was picked up partway through the season. Season 2: A writers strike pushed the start of the season forward to October 29, meaning that only 18 episodes were completed that year. Kozoll was now listed as a consultant, signifying his diminished role in the show. He later stated he was already feeling burnt out, and in fact was relying more on car chases and action to fill

13800-555: Was published in the U.S. in 2020. De Palma and Lehman also wrote a second book, currently unpublished, called Terry , based on one of De Palma's passion projects about a French film production making an adaptation of Thérèse Raquin . De Palma's films can fall into two categories, his thriller films ( Sisters , Body Double , Obsession , Dressed to Kill , Blow Out , Raising Cain ) and his mainly commercial films ( Scarface , The Untouchables , Carlito's Way , and Mission: Impossible ). He has often produced "De Palma" films one after

13920-468: Was raised as a Catholic and attended Miami Beach Senior High School , where he played on the basketball team. During his senior year of high school, he became ill with mononucleosis , which convinced him to pursue a career in acting. He began his acting career that year by taking a drama class with Jay W. Jensen . He graduated from Florida International University . García began acting at Florida International University but soon went to Hollywood. He had

14040-732: Was sublime. One thing is to act with Cher who is a great actress and then to be asked to sing with her". García also starred in the Paramount romantic comedy, Book Club , alongside Diane Keaton , Candice Bergen , Jane Fonda , and Mary Steenburgen . The film was a box office success grossing over $ 89 million worldwide against its $ 10 million budget. He also starred in Clint Eastwood 's drama film, The Mule alongside Eastwood, Bradley Cooper , Dianne Wiest , Laurence Fishburne and Michael Peña . It grossed $ 174.8 million and received positive reviews from critics. García appeared in

14160-400: Was the subject of the 2015 documentary De Palma , directed by Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow . Hill Street Blues The show received critical acclaim, and its production innovations influenced many subsequent dramatic television series produced in the United States and Canada and has been widely regarded by many as one of the greatest television shows of all time. In 1981 ,

14280-622: Was the thriller Domino (2019), released two years after the film began production. It received generally negative reviews and was released direct-to-VOD in the United States, grossing less than half a million dollars internationally. De Palma has also expressed dissatisfaction with both the production of the film and the final result; "I never experienced such a horrible movie set." In 2018, De Palma published his debut novel in France, Les serpents sont-ils nécessaires? (English translation: Are Snakes Necessary? ), co-written with Susan Lehman. It

14400-444: Was very influential, with many others imitating its use of handheld cameras, ensemble casts, and multiple overlapping story lines lasting for several episodes, set in urban decay . Alan Sepinwall wrote in 2014 that it "is on the short list of the most influential TV shows ever made. Whether through shared actors, writers, directors or through stylistic and thematic complexity, its DNA can be found in nearly every great drama produced in

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