With Dennis Hopper, Christopher Walken, Bronson Pinchot, Saul Rubinek, Chris Penn, Michael Rapaport, and Brad Pitt.

NEWYORKER: True Romance

He is hired by the brutish Dunwitty (a barrelling Michael Rapaport) to come up with a fresh idea, and duly delivers a minstrel show, complete with chicken gags and black actors encrusted in blackface.

NEWYORKER: Bamboozled

Prizes like the mermaid went to a small group of buyers assembled by Ben Rapaport, a Reston, Va. authority on tobacciana collecting and the author of five books on antique pipes and related topics.

FORBES: Magazine Article