In director William Friedkin’s 1971 crime classic, “The French Connection,” two New York cops work to catch a massive heroin shipment from France. Gene Hackman plays pugnacious police officer Jimmy ...

“The Connection” is the real-life story of the French Connection, as told from a French point of view and focusing around the city of Marseille, a center of drug trafficking in the 1970s. The French ...

Add the word “French” to the title of director Cedric Jimenez’s period policier “The Connection,” and you get this film’s intended spiritual antecedent: William Friedkin’s classic of vulgar New York ...

He also starred in the cult classics 'The Honeymoon Killers' and 'God Told Me To' and played Fiorello La Guardia on stages around the world. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Tony Lo Bianco, the Brooklyn ...

“In retrospect, I was wrong to shoot it that way, but there was no other way to get it done.” That’s how director Billy Friedkin last week summed up his famously hair-raising chase scene in the ...

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Friedkin also worked on 1977’s 'Sorcerer' and 1985’s 'To Live and Die in L.A.' Erin Clack is a Staff Editor for PEOPLE. She has been writing about fashion, parenting and pop culture for more than 15 ...

The Oscar winner "never played by the rules, often to my own detriment," he said. By Stephen Galloway William Friedkin, the Oscar winner behind The French Connection and The Exorcist who was one of ...

Marcel Market in Bishop Arts may be Dallas’ most comprehensive French boutique, but for those who can’t get enough of that je ne sais quoi, we’ve rounded up more local businesses with a Francophile ...

Once labeled a “natural-born heavy,” he shined onscreen and especially onstage, securing a Tony nomination and winning an Obie Award. By Anita Gates Tony Lo Bianco, an actor whose film roles included ...