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Hell up in the Bronx: Richard Combs reviews Gloria and Raging Bull
Ships that pass in the night. John Cassavetes’ The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976), about a strip-club entrepreneur in debt to the Mob, was apparently dreamt up in the course of an evening with Martin Scorsese. ‘We were talking about stories, and we …