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of hit man never heats up    • Michael Shannon plays real-life
hitman Richard Kuklinski in "The Iceman."   Like many a true-
crime tale, the story of Richard Kuklinski sounds like it would
make an incredible movie. A mob-related contract killer,
Kuklinski also murdered for the sheer sport of it; when he was
arrested in 1986, his wife and children had no idea he'd been
doing anything illegal. They thought he was a businessman. "The
Iceman," a new film based on Kuklinski's life, is further proof
that not all true-crime tales make incredible movies. A dreary
wallow in the mire, this one goes wrong almost from the start --
save for the central piece of casting. The picture is draped
around the formidable shoulders of Michael Shannon, the
Frankensteinian actor from "Take Shelter" and "Boardwalk
Empire." Shannon carries with him the eerie focus of a man who
could smite you down just for l