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HEAT.
This was the movie that Miami Vice fans salivated for and adopted as their own, until Michael Mann decided to finally do the Miami Vice movie. Anyway, here's what got me all excited this mornin'. Bill Simmons article is about three all stars coming together hoping to finally win a ring in Celtic Green:Eleven years later, the Celtics find themselves in a similar spot: Three All-Stars coupled with a talented but woefully inexperienced point guard (Rondo), a promising defensive stopper coming off major knee surgery (Tony Allen), a decent backup center who plays hard (Kendrick Perkins), a new Mark Madsen for KG (Brian Scalabrine, who's already working on his high-fives and fist-pumps), two undersized power forwards (Big Baby Glen Davis, Leon Powe), two athletic rookies (Brandon Wallace, Gabe Pruitt) and that's it. There isn't an Eddie Johnson or Mario Elie to be seen. Then again, since they're likely to add one or two more ring-hungry veterans, and since the '08 Eastern Conference is between three and 200 times worse than the '97 Western Conference, who knows? In the words of Chris Shiherlis,
The bank is worth the risk.
For the record, can you believe this cast?
- Al Pacino...Lt. Vincent Hanna
- Robert De Niro...Neil McCauley
- Val Kilmer...Chris Shiherlis
- Jon Voight...Nate
- Tom Sizemore...Michael Cheritto
- Diane Venora...Justine Hanna
- Amy Brenneman...Eady
- Ashley Judd...Charlene Shiherlis
- Mykelti Williamson...Sergeant Drucker
- Ted Levine...Bosko
- Dennis Haysbert...Donald Breedan
- William Fichtner...Roger Van Zant
- Natalie Portman...Lauren Gustafson
- Tom Noonan...Kelso
- Kevin Gage...Waingro
- Hank Azaria...Alan Marciano
- Danny Trejo...Trejo
- Henry Rollins...Hugh Benny
- Ricky Harris...Albert Torena
- Tone Loc...Richard Torena
- Jeremy Piven...Dr. Bob
