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Published: May 30, 2012
What goes around comes around. Twenty-four years ago Michelle Pfeiffer achieved her critical breakthrough playing a Mafia widow hit upon by the local Don (Dean Stockwell) after her husband is rubbed out in Jonathan Demme’s zesty crime spoof “Married to the Mob.” There wasn’t a trace of “Scarface”’s icy Elvira in Pfeiffer’s Angela de Marco, a gum-snapping, brunette-ringleted Brooklyn mom who trades in her shoulder-padded animal print gowns for pretty floral dresses when she falls for an FBI man (Matthew Modine). Read the full post on Spotlight.