And if youre my girl and someones smart to you, Ill slap him in the mouth. He also told Rolling Stone: The one thing that gets me most is having my intelligence underestimated. When Ronnie Lorenzo, an LA mobster, was arrested for drug trafficking, kidnap and extortion, Caan offered his home as collateral toward the $2m bail and appeared as a character witness for his best friend. Cookies help us deliver our Services. End of tweet. Three years later luck would strike again when Caan's old Hofstra classmate Francis Ford Coppola cast him as a former football player in the road trip drama "The Rain People" opposite Shirley Knight and Robert Duvall. This month marks the 40th anniversary of the release of Michael Manns directorial debut, a gritty, Mamet-esque crime drama that perfectly captured the Chicago of the early 1980s and struck the ideal balance between elaborately choreographed safe-cracking sequences, moments of stunningly realistic violence and extended scenes dependent on great actors delivering pages of authentic yet stylized dialogue. By Claire Jimenez(Grand Central, fiction). I dont usually get that cerebral with s--- I read, but there was something really strange about it that drew me to it., The Bronx-born Caan employs a hard but accurate Chicago accent in Thief, but Frank has a very particular way of expressing himself, as when he first declines an offer to work for Robert Proskys crime boss, Leo. If macho means Im going to drive the car, then Im macho. That work ethic, whether due to artistic passion or financial need, resulted in a very busy 21st century for the actor. But coaching Little League doesn't pay the bills, and due to some financial chicanery on the part of his accountant, Caan's financial situation took a significant hit. Caan may have been a great actor and his roles may be long-remembered. And yes, there was a bruise, but nothing else. Despite the admitted slap, shove, and bruise, Caan claimed the picture was a total fabrication., In 1993, Caan was one of the first stars picked up in a major high-end prostitution bust, according to The Guardian. Caan was not afraid to study or to work hard, but it was clear early on that neither the life of an academic or a meatpacker was for him. More violence came his way as the brutal CIA man in Sam Peckinpahs The Killer Elite and, in contrast, he portrayed Billy Rose, the gambling, philandering husband of Barbra Streisands Fanny Brice in Funny Lady, all in the same year.
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