
‘King of New York’ With Quentin Tarantino, Bill Simmons, and Sean Fennessey
The Rewatchables
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The Mysterious Movie That Is Inspired by Biggie Smalls
Biggie Smalls got me when he started calling himself Frank White. It was like a lot of people like you're like, wait, why is he doing that? There's no internet back then. Thepha Hearts isn't even ever on cable. Steven Bauer and David Caruso are thieves. They burglarize this lady's house. And they find her diary. He's reading the diary. All her fantasies is like, I'm just going to pretend to be the guy in her fantasy. That's what made it their movie. But then really until NYPD Blue, I don't feel like he became famous. I think he was like cool movie famous, but not famous
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