One of the rare actors who I instantly smile as he appears on the screen.
It's really sad after 9 years from the OP's post, Mr. Farina is not with us anymore.
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No one mentioned the scene when he's talking to his boss about Chili and has the bandage on his nose. His voice is all nasal and he has to keep sucking air loudly through his mouth because he can't breathe through his nose. RIP Dennis
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He lit up every scene he was in with his delivery of the lines. Film wouldn't have been half as good without his presence. Made me laugh constantly.

Much of Farina's performance isn't acting. I had the pleasure of knowing him back in Chicago circa 1970 when he was a street cop. Used to come into the back of a McDonald's where I worked to get his free coffee and such. Saw him pull over a guy in a vette in the parking lot for a traffic stop and the f-bombs were flying just like Lt. Mike Torello and/or Ray Barbone!! I do miss him and that wonderful attitude of his!

I love the part right after that when he tells Harry not to puke on his shoes. Haha! That whole scene in the office was great.

My favorite is the look on his face when he shoots that dude after he says he has the f v c k ing Fiat of guns. LOL!!
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I don`t know if Farina was a "kickass" or not (well, he did kick ass very good in Crime Story), but the way he played his character in Get Shorty, was quite embarrassingly awful a lot of the time - that is, whenever he went for some broad, over-the-top comedy. He really shoulda laid off that stuff.
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None of you have mentioned the line he says in the barber shop "Do you cut straight hair in here or just fags"?. That had me laughing my ass off.

Yeah well, I hope you drive better than you beep spell, jack-off. My name is Barboni, not Barbone, okay!
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Someone mentioned that on another site (that Farina stole the movie).
What's simply amazing to me is that it's hard to argue with that statement (he was so great in this) and we're saying that about a really great film with OTHER amazing performances by I dunno actors by the names of:

• John Travolta
• Gene Hackman
• Rene Russo
• Danny DeVito
• James Gandolfini
• David Paymer
  Incredible.
  Wait a minute who am I here?

His role in 'Snatch' is almost identical, so much so that I'm sure that character was written for him after Guy Ritchie saw this movie.
He's great, I wish he was in more stuff.
These bastards!

They should have had him in the sequel. He could have played a smaller role in the way deebo does in Next Friday.
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"the f kin' airport"

He was great in every scene! The very first shot of him has him laughing in the face of a guy sitting at the table with him extremely hard about something always cracks me up. The way he flinches while on the toilet the first time the phone rings, and his follow up beep beep beep beep beep beep after the second just kills me. The way he's sitting there not giving a damn about anything Gene Hackman is saying when Gene is trying to get him to invest in his movie is priceless. And, of course, the scenes with him sitting there in his car waiting on his driver to walk all the way around and open his door, and him snapping his fingers for the cab to move up 2 feet and come to him instead of him coming to it.

This entire movie is a classic, with Farina of course contributing to its awesomeness. What cracked me up is Barboni's erroneous use of common phrases when he was trying to act all badass:
-The whole "eg/ie" exchange
-When Chili shot him in the head with the dart gun, he runs out yelling repeatedly, "Someone call f-ing '9-1-1-1'!!!" vs. "9-1-1"
-"When I tell you to jump, you say ok, ok!" vs. "how high"
-When he tries to make peace with Chili near the end."You took a swing at me, I say f-that. You owe me some $, I say f-that. You owe me the juice, I say f-that too. I say, 'live and let die!'" vs. live and let live.
Just a few of the many subtleties that make this movie timeless.

he was great
i hope you drive better then you spell the name is BarbonE jagoff
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i was lmao

I agree he's hilarious in this. I like him in Midnight Run as wellit's almost the same part with equally awesome lines.
I see him every-so-often in the NW Indiana/SE Michigan area. I only say hello to him and hold off telling him how great he is. I think he wants to be left alone when he's not involved in a film. Just out doing whatever.

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Farina was a Chicago cop for 18 years. He probably picked up how criminals behave from his experience dealing with them.
He admits to having been a poor shot. Many Police are reported to have looked for cover whenever he got his pistol out. They thought it was more probable that Denis would shoot them than the criminal.

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I particularly like the Harry's office scene in the "Have a peek at this.." and trashes the office. Maybe I have a hidden sadistic trait

Another good part is when they pull up in front of Leo's house and he just sits in the car like an a-hole until his bodyguard walks around the car to open the door for him. (He does a similiar thing later in the movie with the finger snap at the cab driver.)
He played the part perfectly of a typically arrogant gangster who thinks the world revolves around him and that everybody is there to serve him.
One thing I also thought was funny was when he was reading on the toilet and his lips were moving. I wonder if he added that himself or if that was already in the script. Either way, it was hilarious.
Yet one more funny scene was when he's throwing Harry around Harry's office and beating him up and says, "This is exactly what I needed. I little fvck!ng exercise after that long fvck!ng plane ride." Of course, he spreads the words out as he's tossing Harry around like a rag doll.
He did a bang-up job (literally) in this movie.

Wow, I was just going to bring that up.
As Cousin Avi, He had a lot of great lines in Snatch:
"Hear that Doug? We're coming to beep England."
Three seconds later Doug greets him in London: "Avi!"
"Sit down you big bald beep."

Yeah, excellent character!!
Just like in Snatch!

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