The first scene in Be Cool, a sequel to the wicked, marvelous caper, Get Shorty, promises a kind of movie that it never becomes. Chili Palmer (John Travolta), the sharp, smooth-talking loan shark turned movie producer from the first film, is riding in a car with his business associate (played, in an inspired cameo, by James Woods) in downtown LA. They are talking movies. "Did you know that in order to get a PG-13 rating," Chili says, "a movie can only use the f-word once? You know what I say to that? Fuck that, I'm done." And then you laugh, knowing that Chili will never use the word again, and you hold up your metaphorical glass to the brilliance of the classic, razor-sharp, tongue-in-cheek wit of Elmore Leonard. "Yes," we think as we remember all the juicy dialogue from Get Shorty, "they've done it again."