James Woods, who was born in 1947, the year Widmark made his screen debut as the psychotic Tommy Udo in Kiss of Death, has spent his whole career playing crazy cops, mad criminals, racists, gonzo journalists, driven anti-social and unsociable types, foul-mouthed human time-bombs ready to explode.
"The Leftovers" encompasses a few crazy cops, two new cults, the death of a gang of dogs and the disappearance of roughly 2% of the world's population.
The recordings will be used to deter bad behaviour both by police and by the public; to provide evidence after violent encounters; and to protect officers against baseless complaints.Even with these changes, "There is at least one crazy cop in every precinct," says a retired NYPD officer.
In his personal life Mel Gibson may still be sleeping it off in Hollywood's sin bin, but cinematically he returns here to what he does best, playing a funny, psychopathic, sharp-thinking outsider similar to Riggs the crazy cop he impersonated in the Lethal Weapon pictures.
Then, long after the scripts stopped coming, director William Friedkin called out of the blue, offering him a part as a creepy, crazy cop and hit man in "Killer Joe".
When you do tell people a story or two about some crazy cop chase or such, remain poised, and be proud of who you are, unless you did something horrible (keep that to yourself).
"Crazy how cops were able to subdue a white guy turned zombie, but [they're] out here killin' black men at traffic stops for no reason," one Twitter user wrote.
Non-stop noise and nonsense, which makes sense, because county jails are designed to make people go crazy and cop unwise pleas to end the madness.
All the guys are crazy about Sophie, from the sensitive mob boss who takes her to a poetry reading to the unhinged cop who becomes her stalker.
Simon recalled, "Ed used to drive the other cops crazy because he knew better at every point how to do an investigation, and then when he got the cases to court he would tell the prosecutors how to present them.
"I won't claim that we have anything remotely like DNA in this work," Shuy said, "but we are a whole lot better than a lot of the crazy schemes that cops are being taught".
