Description
In ‘Get Shorty’, dazzled by the Hollywood lights, Palmer forgets his debt-collecting duties, deciding instead to pitch in with Zimm to produce a new vehicle for movie star Martin Weir (Danny DeVito); but ties to the criminal underworld are not so easily severed. In ‘Be Cool’ (2005), Chili Palmer returns. Having grown tired of the screen trade and looking for new horizons, he thinks he may have found his niche when close friend Tommy Athens (James Woods), a fellow mobster who runs an independent record label, is murdered by Russian gangsters. Chili takes over Athens’ record company and begins courting Tommy’s girlfriend, Edie (Uma Thurman) who’s experienced in record production. They spot what would seem to be the ideal act for their label, Linda Moon (Christina Milian), a beautiful young woman with a powerhouse voice, but stuck in a going-nowhere R&B trio managed by the monumentally sleazy Raji (Vince Vaughn). Chili isn’t concerned about Linda’s contract with Raji, but Raji certainly is and soon takes out a contract on Chili with the same Russian hoods who killed Tommy. Soon Chili is facing all the action he can handle between the Russian gunmen, music mogul Nick Carr (Harvey Keitel) who wants Chili to stay out of the business, and Sin LaSalle, a successful hip-hop producer who wants the $300,000 he is owed
