Giuliani - Richard Widmark carrying out his role in the movie “Kiss of Death

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Giuliani Developing Maniacal Tic

Monday, September 8, 2008 4:54 PM
By: Edward I. Koch Article Font Size


As I watched Rudy Giuliani deliver his keynote speech at the Republican National Convention last week, I noticed a verbal tic intruding into the former mayor’s hatcheting performance. It was a kind of maniacal laugh appearing before or simultaneously surfacing as he delivered his slashing attack on Sen. Obama.

As I watched, I knew I had seen that laugh before. Suddenly I knew, as my brain finished its card sorting of the stored recollections within my skull and came up with the memory I sought. There was the picture of actor Richard Widmark, now deceased, carrying out his role in the movie “Kiss of Death.” I saw once again the scene in which Widmark, playing Tommy Udo, a killer, pushed a wheelchair in which an old woman was sitting and, laughing maniacally, shoved it off the top of the stairs with its occupant still in it.

Someone — a friend of Rudy’s — should draw his attention to this mannerism so that he can seek to eliminate it before he runs for public office again, maybe mayor, maybe governor.

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One psychopath who surely deserved a spot in EW.com's current gallery of our favorite movie villains is Tommy Udo, the unforgettable thug played by Richard Widmark (pictured, center, with Victor Mature) in his 1947 film debut, Kiss of Death. With his high-pitched giggle and inventive cruelty (notoriously, he ties up an old woman in a wheelchair and pushes her down the stairs to her death),


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