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  Billy Bathgate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Billy Bathgate is a 1989 novel by author E.L. Doctorow that won the 1990 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
Billy and his friends are in awe of the flashy mobsters in the neighborhood.
Billy works his way up but begins to question his actions when he falls in love with Dutch's moll, whom Dutch plans to have killed.
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 Billy Bathgate
Billy Bathgate (Loren Dean), an enterprising street kid from the Depression-era Bronx slums, bluffs and charms his way into the upper echelons of Dutch Schultz's (Hoffman) gang by helping expose the duplicity of Schultz's trusted lieutenant, Bo Weinberg (Bruce Willis).
Billy secretly helps Drew escape when Schultz, tiring of her, tries to have her killed as the only civilian eyewitness to Weinberg's murder.
Billy escapes only to be captured by Luciano.
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 Amazon.ca: Billy Bathgate: Books: E Doctorow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The astonishing story of Billy's apprenticeship to Shultz and his education at the hands of the mobster's minions is related by Doctorow with masterful skill, grace and lucidity of prose, inspired inventiveness of scene and true-voiced dialogue.
Billy's character was a symbol similar to the character Holden Caulfield in the book Catcher and the Rye but the difference between the two characters was that Billy was a little bit less in control of his destiny and was led on more in this story.
Billy is also expressed as an outcast from society trying to find himself a feel like he belongs somewhere.
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 deseretnews.com - Movie review: Billy Bathgate | Deseret Morning News Web edition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
With all the advance publicity about "Billy Bathgate" being awash in production problems, along with battles between director Robert Benton and star Dustin Hoffman (despite their having worked together previously on the Oscar-winning "Kramer vs. Kramer"), one could expect the film to be a disaster of the first order.
"Billy Bathgate" is filled with interesting characters: Otto Berman (Steven Hill), Dutch's chief aide, who feels some paternal responsibility for Billy; hitman Irving (Steve Buscemi, memorable as the bellboy in "Barton Fink"), who at first is an idol, then a nemesis of Billy's; and a bevy of smaller roles filled by seasoned character actors.
"Billy Bathgate" is rated R for violence, profanity and sex, along with two gratuitous scenes of Kidman in the buff.
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 Billy Bathgate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Billy Bathgate juggles his way into the good graces of a 1930s New York gangster.
She of course develops a certain fondness, and a lack of modesty, towards young Billy, who is given her care during much of the film.
Billy Bathgate doesn't break new ground in the gangster genre and its pace is a little slow at times, but it'll absorb you into the story regardless until its abrupt, somewhat unsatisfying end.
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 Billy Bathgate - zonExplorer
Based on the novel by E.L. Doctorow, Billy Bathgate is the story of a street-smart boy (Loren Dean) who, after a chance encounter with racketeering kingpin Dutch Schultz (Dustin Hoffman), sets out to apprentice himself to the Mafia and ride the roller-coaster life of a gangster.
Billy Bathgate is a kid from the Bronx who is thrilled to be noticed by wealthy Mr Schultz during the Depression.
Billy Bathgate (Loren Dean) is a young kid, not quite a punk, who is ambitious and wants to make money.
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 Billy Bathgate
Dutch intends to explore her body until he tires of her, at which point he plans to dispose of her because she knows too much about the murder of the double-crosser.
Billy, on the other hand, gradually falls in love with the classy dame.
Dutch's empire dissolves in front of Billy, while the lad plots to save the life of the woman he loves from the gangster to whom he owns his life and loyalty.
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 Amazon.com: Billy Bathgate: DVD: Robert Benton,Dustin Hoffman,Nicole Kidman,Loren Dean,Bruce Willis,Steven Hill,Steve ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Billy Bathgate is about a teenager who becomes the protogee' of a mob boss.
As Billy uses his wit to capture Schultz's attention, this poor boy is given a reprieve from poverty, to a chance of a lifetime.
Steven Hill as Otto Berman, Steve Buscemi as Irving, Billy Jaye as Mickey, John Costelloe as Lulu, Timothy Jerome as Dixie Davis, Stanley Tucci as Lucky Luciano, Mike Starr as Julie Martin, Robert F. Colesberry as Jack Kelly, Stephen Joyce as Mr.
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 Billy Bathgate - Review
Billy is ordered to look after Schultz' new moll, Drew Preston (Nicole Kidman), while Dutch fends off tax evason charges and such up-and-coming rivals as Lucky Luciano (Stanley Tucci).Even though they know they're playing with dynamite, Billy and Drew fall in love.
When "Charley Lucky" emerges triumphant, Billy is forced once again to rely on his wits to escape being sent to the bottom of the briny in a cement overcoat.
Billy Bathgate was adapted for the screen by British playwright Top Stoppard, whose fondness for enigmatic characters and cryptic dialogue sometimes rubs the Doctorow original the wrong way.
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 Amazon.com: Billy Bathgate: Books: E. L. Doctorow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Billy is somewhat problematic, a 15-year-old with altogether to much perception of the adult world around him.
Billy Bathgate sucks you into a world of a down and out street wise kid who is seduced by a low level seedy mobster into being his protoge.
Bathgate who lived in a squalid and tiny tenement apartment with his mentally unbalanced Irish Catholic mom was hanging out on the streets doing juggling tricks at which he was adept.
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 Billy Bathgate Movie: Billy Bathgate DVD is available from Bestprices.com
After Billy tips Dutch off about some traitorous activity in his organization, he moves up a couple of rungs and is soon entrusted with guarding the gangster's girlfriend, Drew Preston (Nicole Kidman).
Billy, a streetwise kid, is slowly seduced by the glamour of crime.
Billy, an ambitious streetwise kid seduced by the power, money, and glamour of crime, soon begins to seriously question if his passport to the good life is going to come from the fiery Dutch and his gang!
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 Billy Bathgate (1991)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Billy impresses Schultz when he manages to trick his way into his numbers house, simply by waving a bag of money (actually cup-cakes) at the various guarded doors.
Inevitably however, life for Billy is less simple as he witnesses the more deadly side of Schultz and falls dangerously in love with Drew.
    Billy Bathgate is no Godfather or Goodfellas to be sure, but it really does work as a smaller, more intimate peek inside the gangster world of 1930s New York.
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Ultimately Billy's career path is complicated and his simplistic faith in gangsterism shaken when he is seduced by Kidman's comely dame.
Except for an ominous opening sequence in which Dutch's lieutenant (Bruce Willis) waits to die, "Billy Bathgate" is largely subdued.
Billy Bathgate is rated R for language, violence and sex.
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 Billy Bathgate review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
   "Billy Bathgate" is one of the most surprising films released this year.
Bathgate discovers that his boss's success is based on the fact that he is totally ruthless: After Schultz kills one of his two-timing cronies, played by Bruce Willis, he has the gall to shack up with the dead man's socialite girlfriend, played by Nicole Kidman.
The rest of the film follows Bathgate's adventures with Schultz and his lover, most of which are pretty mundane.
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 Billy Bathgate. The Waterworks by E.L. Doctorow - read reviews
Billy Bathgate is just one of the many high school drop-outs hanging around the Bronx captivated by the world of money, sex and charismatic high life represented by infamous gangster Dutch Schultz.
So Billy is brought into the numbers and protection racket and soon learns about the darker side of Schulz and about murder, theft and vindictiveness.
Doctorow's most well known works include Ragtime, published in 1975 and Billy Bathgate, published in 1989, both of which were later the basis of films.
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 Term Paper on Billy Bathgate
Billy Bathgate, is a book of a young boy's transition into manhood.
It starts out in Billy's hometown, the Bronx of New York in the twenties; a time of social unrest and prohibition.
The apartment building Billy lives in is not the epitome of cleanliness.
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 eBay - Book: Billy Bathgate (ISBN: 0394525299)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Young Billy Bathgate witnesses atrocities of the crime world in his introduction to a brutal and unsparing life that takes him through the heart of the city and the rural underworld in Depression-era America.
Though BILLY BATHGATE meditates on many matters--mobsters and orphans, the East Bronx and the Great Depression, the politics of sex and the psychology of class...think of it, like Scott Fitzgerald's THE GREAT GATSBY or Horatio Alger's RAGGED DICK, as a fairy tale about capitalism.
Billy Bathgate - The Dutch Schultz Gang by Doctorow
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 BILLY BATHGATE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Billy Behan, a fatherless Irish-Jewish kid from the East Bronx, is 15 when he first has the luck one day to see Schultz in the flesh--and the greater luck briefly to catch the illustrious mobster's attention.
Back in the city, the gang finds itself under mounting pressures (not only are other gangs, but so is special prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey moving in on them), and when the dreadful shootout comes, only Billy, Ishmael-like, lives to tell the tale--and to provide a denoument that may or may not convince every reader.
What could have been merely another round of nostalgia-drenched mobster romancing earns a claim, by end, to a genuine depth, and, formed by the magical skill of Doctorow's incomparable past-painting hands, the book simply pulls and pulls and pulls.
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 BILLY BATHGATE - E. L. Doctorow - Penguin Books
In 1930's New York, Billy Bathgate, a fifteen-year-old high-school dropout, has captured the attention of infamous gangster Dutch Schultz, who lures the boy into his world of racketeering.
But it is also a world of extortion, brutality, and murder, where Billy finds himself involved in a dangerous affair with Schultz's girlfriend.
Relive this story through the title character's driving narrative, a child's thoughts and feelings filtered through the sensibilities of an adult, and the result is E.L. Doctorow's most convincing and appealing portrayal of a young boy's life.
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 ADAPTATION: THE ADDAMS FAMILY, BILLY BATHGATE, V.I. WARSHAWSKI
One of the things critics complained about the film was that Billy was too bland to care about.
True, Billy's not an active character, but I got the sense he was watching everything and taking it all in (at the end, Lucky Luciano (Stanley Tucci in a sharp cameo) comments as much to Billy).
Still, overall, BILLY BATHGATE is a reasonably entertaining film.
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 Billy Bathgate (1991)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Plot Outline: In the 1935, fifteen year old street hustler Billy Bathgate becomes the protege of fledgling gangster Dutch Schultz and begins a love affair with a flighty moll.
This movie ultimately came in at $50 million and grossed a mere $15 million on its American release.
Goofs: Continuity: When Drew Preston is walking with Billy Bathgate and takes his hand, the close-up shows her hand is on the front.
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 Dissertations, Essays on billy bathgate
Billy Bathgate Billy Bathgate, is a book of a young boy’s transition into manhood.
I would recommend this book to any one, especially boy’s, since it is based on a young boy’s life.
Billy Bathgate, wasn’t the usual predictable book, one where you can tell where the story is going in the first couple chapters.
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 Billy Bathgate Film Review - Time Out Film
An early scene, in which the gangster (Hoffman) sees 16-year-old Billy (Dean) juggling balls high above the street on a railway bridge, catches the magic realism of the novel, but little else does.
Dutch's mistress (Kidman), a society woman slumming, takes a shine to Billy, and their affair provides some necessary development to relationships within the gang.
The best performance comes from Steven Hill as Otto, the gangster's faithful retainer, and although Dean is OK as the kid with luck, the role of talisman doesn't play on film.
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 VH1.com : Movies : Billy Bathgate : Plot
Doctorow's Billy Bathgate, Loren Dean plays the title character, a street-smart kid who inveigles his way into the confidence of 1930s gangster Dutch Schultz (
Billy is ordered to look after Schultz' new moll, Drew Preston (Nicole Kidman), while Dutch fends off tax evasion charges and such up-and-coming rivals as Lucky Luciano (Stanley Tucci).
Billy Bathgate was adapted for the screen by British playwright Tom Stoppard.
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 Amazon.co.uk: Billy Bathgate [1991]: DVD: Dustin Hoffman,Nicole Kidman,Bruce Willis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
A gangster movie based on the novel by E.L. Doctorow, which follows the life of a New York teenager, Billy, who becomes involved with a 1930's mob led by Dutch Schultz.
In his eagerness to emulate Dutch, Billy puts Dutch's girlfriend and his own life in danger.
billy bathgate is the worst actor in the film his anoying i would give it five if he was not in it.
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 BookRags: Billy Bathgate Study Guide
Cited in a famous remark by Ernest Hemingway as a major source for "all American literature," Twain's classic account of a young boy who must reckon with the moral problems of an adult world is certainly an important model for Doctorow.
Billy follows in the footsteps of Huck Finn as a young witness to scenes of wrongdoing, violence, and death.
There is even a pastoral interlude when Billy must pose as a respectable boy who attends Sunday School in a small upstate New York town.
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 Billy Bathgate by E. L. Doctorow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Open this book and enter through his own words the perilous, thrilling world of Billy Bathgate, the brazen boy who has insinuated himself into the inner circle of the notorious Dutch Schultz gang to become good-luck charm, apprentice, and finally protégé to one of the great murdering gangsters of his time.
Like an urban Tom Sawyer in a world of horrors, Billy has come down from the tenement streets of the East Bronx to live in the glamorously evil Depression underworld that Schultz has created.
Black Packards cruise the streets and not even infants in their carriages are safe from the bullets of warring gunmen.
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 Billy Bathgate - Movie Info - Moviefone
Synopsis: In this film version of E. Doctorow's Billy Bathgate, Loren Dean plays the title character, a street-smart kid who inveigles his way into the...
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 BookRags: Billy Bathgate Study Guide
Billy Bathgate is Doctorow's seventh novel, and it has much in common with his earlier work.
An interplay of history and fiction, for example, is also explored in his novels from The Book of Daniel (1971) to World's Fair (1985).
Billy Bathgate from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults.
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 BruceWillis.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Based loosely on the organized crime syndicates of the 20's and 30's, Billy Bathgate is the story of a young man's rise from gopher to right hand man in Dutch Schultz' gang.
Having been impressed by the youth, Schultz takes him under his wing so to speak.
Billy soon finds himself in a world where wealth and fortune live next door to danger and death.
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