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	Summer of Sam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Summer of Sam is a 1999 film about the Son of Sam serial murders.
		It is the story of a group of people in New York City (particularly the Throgs Neck/Country Club section of the Bronx) in the summer of 1977, a time in which the headlines were dominated by the Son of Sam serial killer case.
		While the Son of Sam is terrorizing New York City, fear-driven residents of a small Italian-American neighborhood start pointing fingers at anyone who doesn't fit in the crowd as suspects.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Summer_of_Sam (302 words)

	Samhain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Its meaning is glossed as "summer's end", and the frequent spelling with f suggests analysis by popular etymology as sam "summer" and fuin "sunset, end".
		Old Irish sam "summer" is from PIE semo-, cognates are Welsh haf, Breton hañv, Old Norse language sumar all meaning "summer"*, and Sanskrit sáma "season".
		Giamonios, the beginning of the summer season, is clearly related to the word for winter, PIE *g'hei-men- (Latin hiems, Slavic zima, Greek kheimon, Hittite gimmanza), c.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Samhain (1464 words)

	Summer of Sam Movie Review by Anthony Leong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		As the long hot summer progresses, the city of New York is on the verge of exploding from the tension.
		Although "Summer of Sam" effectively captures the essence of the Seventies and provides an interesting commentary on the moral depravity that is endemic to modern society, there are a number of weaknesses in the script that prevent it from becoming a truly well-crafted film.
		It was a time when America was in transition between the high-rolling hyperinflation of the Seventies and the harsh recession of the early Eighties, between the happy-go-lucky dancehall beats of disco and the rise of the cheerless punk movement, and between the age of free love and the age of AIDS.
	members.aol.com /aleong1631/summerofsam.html (2073 words)

	Summer of Sam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Rather than follow this summer from the killer’s point of view or even the victim’s point of view, Lee takes a very novel approach, he looks at the community that the killer frequented and how the residents of that neighborhood were affected.
		Typical of a Spike Lee Joint, Summer of Sam is full of side stories that add to the three dimensional feel of the characters and that gives this fine cast of actors and excellent writers something to work with.
		Summer of Sam is up there with ‘He’s Got Game’ and Malcolm-X. It is more than a montage of sights and sounds of NYC in the summer of ’77, it is an explosion of the emotion that gripped the city during that summer.
	www.hometheaterinfo.com /summerof.htm (730 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Summer Of Sam [2000]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Summer of Sam doesn't chronicle the killer as much as the times: the blistering hot summer of 1977 when the Big Apple's psyche was taken hostage by the lone gunman.
		The vigilante theme is depicted brilliantly, tying into the background of the Son of Sam killer, the heatwave and the movement of disco, drugs and punk...This is not about the Son of Sam killer, he is just a peripheral character and a cause of much of the paranoia.
		Summer Of Sam takes a different route, instead of the usual routines of either a film focused primarily on the killer and his crimes or someone's investigation and efforts to catch him this film revolves around the people affected by the events surrounding them.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004TT7D (1499 words)

	Summer Of Sam - Movie Review
		"Summer of Sam," Lee's ode to the panic that struck the New York boroughs during David Berkowitz's 1977 Son of Sam killing rampage, lumbers like a Cadillac with a flat tire stuck in first gear.
		"Summer of Sam" has some very strong moments, especially in the way it depicts the tension that weighs on the entire city of New York during this killer's random rampage.
		If I had to say something nice about "Summer of Sam," it would be that it has a soundtrack so well assembled that even Chic and ABBA sound cool in context with Barry White, The Who, Marvin Gaye and Talking Heads.
	www.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/summersam (786 words)

	Summer of Sam (1999) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Plot Outline: Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American South Bronx neighborhood whom live in fear and distrust of one another.
		from Philadelphia, PA Spike Lee goes berserk with SUMMER OF SAM, a twisted revisiting of the Son of Sam killings, New York, 1977.
		The "Son of Sam" himself (played by Michael Badalucco) is placed in the back seat and Lee presents a community and an era for that matter in complete chaos.
	www.imdb.com /Title?0162677 (704 words)

	Summer of Sam
		It was a long hot summer; Reggie Jackson hit three homers in game six against the Dodgers, punk rock was strong, Studio 54 was a top draw and Plato's Retreat was the symbol of sexual freedom.
		Lee's Summer of Sam is best when concentrating on the killer and most dramatic during the vicious murders of young couples.
		What is billed as Son of Sam is an excuse to explore the changing mores of the seventies.
	www.projections-movies.com /reviews/summerofsam.html (410 words)

	Summer of Sam
		New York in the summer of 1977 is a seething playground of sex and drugs and disco; suddenly a monster is loose in the playground, as if summoned by a wrathful god to keep sinners locked up in their homes.
		Summer of Sam is the perfect New York companion piece to the L.A.-set Boogie Nights -- it scampers around, never pausing long enough to allow any one character to gain purchase in our hearts.
		Summer of Sam suffers in every conceivable way in comparison to Do the Right Thing, and contrasting the two films proves what Spike Lee can do when he has his heart in the material and fire in his belly, and what he can't do when he doesn't.
	www.angelfire.com /movies/oc/sos.html (902 words)

	MetroActive Movies \| Summer of Sam
		Summer of Sam, starring Mira Sorvino, John Leguizamo, and Adrian Brody, is director Spike Lee's wildly ambitious, boldly provocative attempt to capture that collective insanity on film.
		Summer's script, written by actors Michael Imperioli and Victor Colicchio (and adapted by Lee), is based on their memories of that infamous period--a time in which no one, not even the parish priest, was absolved from suspicion.
		Summer of Sam, like most of Lee's work, has been the subject of media scrutiny.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/07.01.99/summerosam-9926.html (930 words)

	Summer of Sam
		In the summer of 1977, the City of New York underwent a massive nervous breakdown.
		In Summer of Sam, Spike Lee uses these events as the backdrop for another of his explorations of urban madness.
		Lee was probably wise not to lean too heavily on the details of the Berkowitz investigation, but the Summer of ’77 remains a mere backdrop in his movie.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies/SummerSam.htm (851 words)

	Summer of Sam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Summer of Sam is a road map to hell.
		Summer of Sam is more about sex than it is about blood.
		SUMMER OF SAM 4 stars (R): w/ John Leguizamo, Mira Sorvino, Adrien Brody, Jennifer Esposito, Ben Gazzara, Michael Rispoli.
	www.nuvo.net /archive/071599/071599_bfilm.html (509 words)

	Review: Summer of Sam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Summer of Sam focuses on a small group of Italian-American characters living in the Bronx.
		Perhaps the strongest characteristic of Summer of Sam is its atmosphere.
		Summer of Sam opens a window on the '70s that juxtaposes light pop cultural references with something dark and monstrous.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/s/summer_sam.html (1355 words)

	Summer of Sam
		Summer of Sam is only peripherally about Son of Sam serial killer David Berkowitz.
		His friends are more and more paranoid about the Son of Sam, and they form a vigilante group to try and catch him.
		On the top of their list is Ritchie is trying to adjust to life as a punk rocker in a very italian part of town, and Ruby is hooking up with Ritchie.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/summer_of_sam.html (468 words)

	calendarlive.com: Summer of Sam
		Parents of Son of Sam's victims as well as the still-incarcerated murderer himself (real name David Berkowitz, who pleaded guilty in 1978 to six killings) have complained about having those long-ago horrors exploited on film, but "Summer of Sam" is not really about the killings per se.
		To tell this larger story, "Summer of Sam" concentrates on a staunchly Italian American neighborhood in the Bronx where some of the killings took place and more particularly on two couples united by the close friendship between the men in each.
		All these crises get heightened and intensified because of the pressures and paranoia caused by the Son of Sam murders, which so terrifies the neighborhood that the discos stand empty and women rush to dye their hair blond when the rumor circulates that the killer is partial to brunets.
	www.calendarlive.com /movies/reviews/cl-movie990701-3,2,1575049.story (856 words)

	Images - Summer Of Sam
		New York City during the summer of ’77 is like Ancient Rome in its decline: depravity, violence, and fear are the only rulers.
		Summer of Sam culminates in the arrest of Berkowitz and the simultaneous beating of an innocent suspect.
		Summer of Sam is a messy masterpiece, in the spirit of Nashville and Goodfellas, that evokes America’s most beautifully obscene moments.
	www.imagesjournal.com /issue08/reviews/summerofsam/text.htm (850 words)

	Summer of Sam
		Not so, THE SUMMER OF SAM, which took me back to that special decade in New York which was the 1970s, a decade in which the innocence of 20th century Americans ended.
		But it was also the decade that saw the eruption of violence during a summer flout that paralyzed New York City for the second time in 20 years.
		It was also the summer that witnessed the craziness that was in the mind of David Berkowitz who is forever engraved in the history of New York City as the Son of Sam.
	www.kingsolomon.com /reviews/sumsam.htm (668 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| Summer of Sam
		Except for Reggie Jackson, the Son of Sam is probably the most sympathetic character in Lee's slice of Bronx.
		Summer of Sam plays Berkowitz's scariness for a jolt--a way of kick-starting a movie in which nothing happens, except for New Yorkers bickering in a heat wave.
		Summer of Sam (R; 137 min.), directed by Spike Lee, written by Victor Colicchio, Michael Imperioli and Lee, photographed by Ellen Kuras and starring John Leguizamo, Adrien Brody and Mira Sorvino, plays at selected theaters countywide.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/07.08.99/summersam-9927.html (535 words)

	Summer of Sam
		Summer of Sam clearly wants to be a diffuse, Short Cuts-style portrait of the city in crisis, but the whole maelstrom in fact swirls around a young guy named Vinny (John Leguizamo), a well-meaning but impressionable and completely undisciplined hairdresser living in the Bronx.
		But Summer of Sam gives us too much Vinny, especially when there are potentially fascinating subplots about, like the police investigation of the murders that has cop Anthony LaPaglia begging for help from gangster Ben Gazzara.
		At the same time, they dilute what Summer of Sam really aspires to do, which is to show the effect that Berkowitz's mere presence as a real-life bogeyman had on the rest of the city.
	www.deep-focus.com /flicker/summerof.html (721 words)

	Summer of Sam
		At first glance, Summer of Sam may appear to be a story about the events that transpired during the brutally hot summer of 1977 in New York, when serial killer David Berkowitz (a.k.a.
		the "Son of Sam") reigned terror on residents of the Bronx and its surrounding burroughs.
		Personally, I found the whole dysfunctional bunch of them quite interesting, and though Summer of Sam doesn't quite pull everything together in the end, it is nevertheless a fascinating study in human interaction.
	www.fuzzydog.com /zzsummerofsam.htm (474 words)

	Film: Summer of Sam
		The film is an ensemble piece, profiling a series of New Yorkers who are caught up in the potential horror Berkowitz, aka the Son of Sam, might just wreak on their lives.
		Summer of Sam is a slow starter, but its second hour had everyone twisting in their seat.
		Summer of Sam wasn't selected for the official competition, held in the Palais.
	www.montrealmirror.com /ARCHIVES/1999/070199/film1.html (746 words)

	Salon Arts & Entertainment \| Vive la différence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A melting pot of several stories, "Summer of Sam" is a sprawling urban epic from Brooklyn's native son.
		Lee's latest, "Summer of Sam," which opens Friday, is an urban epic, a noisy, swirling, flawed, hilarious, witty, tender, violent, questionable train wreck.
		Maybe Lee took on too much in taking the summer of 1977 as his subject, but taking on too much is his M.O. The film, organized around the killings and capture of serial killer David Berkowitz, aka Son of Sam, hits on the heat wave, flouts, Studio 54, punk rock and Reggie Jackson.
	www.salon.com /ent/col/vowe/1999/06/30/sam (536 words)

	Summer of Sam . Austin Chronicle . 07-05-99
		In the summer of '77, I was 11 years old and living in upper New York state, but I still vividly recall the newscasts announcing that serial killer David Berkowitz had finally been collared by New York's finest.
		Son of Sam's arrest ended a long string of 72-point headlines that emblazoned the front page of the newspapers I delivered after school, banal in their smudgy gray type but brutal in the paranoiac, siege-like messages they carried from The City.
		It's too ambitious, I think, and certainly too long by a reel or two, but Summer of Sam is nonetheless an intelligent, viscerally kinetic throw-down, a jolt of pure adrenalized Spike that holds more than a few touches of genius in its overripe storyline.
	www.filmvault.com /filmvault/austin/s/summerofsam1.html (420 words)

	Mira Sorvino, John Turturro & Michael Imperioli : Summer of Sam Page
		In director/writer Spike Lee's drama, "Summer of Sam," this vicious murderer stalks his way through the Italian-American section of The Bronx, preying on innocent young women.
		Motivated by greed and ignorance, Joey T., a 32-year-old thug and his gang of flunkies, become obsessed with the idea that Son of Sam is someone from 'the neighborhood.' Armed with twisted logic, the gang makes a list of everyone they think is a freak-o.
		The witch hunt is on, with Ritchie, an aspiring punk rocker becoming the focus of their suspicion and an easy scapegoat for their fears.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Studio/7842/sam.html (339 words)

	Summer of Sam
		Despite the presence of a talking dog, "Summer of Sam" is not a children's movie.
		It's 1977 in New York and the Son of Sam killer is on the loose.
		In the Bronx, a bunch of Italians are moderately inconvenienced by the Son of Sam.
	www.filthycritic.com /filthy/summerofsam.html (1046 words)

	Summer of Sam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		the Son of Sam, began a murderous rampage that ended more than a year later with six dead and seven injured, their only offense that they were caught making out in their cars.
		Summer of Sam is director Spike Lee's look at what happens to one Bronx neighborhood caught in the grip of that fear.
		That makes Summer of Sam a kind of urban Ox Bow Incident, with one major exception: the lynch mob here includes the lynchee's best friend, a guy who's not entirely innocent himself.
	www.rambles.net /summer_sam.html (515 words)

	Summer Of Sam
		It was the summer when the.44 Killer held the city hostage, and the summer of the fl out.
		The climax is an inept colleague that attempts to mimic the stylized climax of Coppola's "Godfather 2" and Scorsese's "Mean Streets." SUMMER OF SAM features too many characters and not enough good performances to shoulder the burned of this screenplay.
		SUMMER OF SAM is an interesting screenplay that falls apart in the execution.
	www.fearsmag.com /REVIEWS/movies/sumsam/sumrsam.html (548 words)

	Summer of Sam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		I get the feeling from Sam that Spike Lee is itching to tell every single one of those eight million stories, and it's that driving ambition that's both the greatest strength and weakness of Lee's new joint.
		The problem is he's made far too much movie for a measly two and a half hours to contain and the resulting plot is an incoherent mess, with subplots that get stranded high and dry and characters that disappear halfway through, sprinkled in with some very bad ideas.
		In this morass, however, there is the skeleton of a great film in the slow breakdown of Vinny(John Leguziamo) and his marriage to "good girl" Dionna (Mira Sorvino) due to his highly Catholic conception of sin and the sexual self-hatred that it spawns in him.
	www.panix.com /~crodell/99film/summer-sam.html (464 words)

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