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The usual suspects?

“Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.”

The screenplay credits list Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch as the film’s writers.

Anyways, figuratively (also humorously) speaking, “usual suspects” can be any persons who are “usually” (often) seen at a party, meeting, or any other occasion. This example, from Freedictionary.com:

“Who did you spend the evening with?”

“Oh, Dan, Yuko, Jayne - the usual suspects.”

For another example, the following headline suggests that financial investors are often blamed for sudden rising commodity prices (FT.com, July 7 2008):

The usual suspects: Are financial investors driving up the cost of commodities?

Alright, here are more recent media examples:

1. Americans die sooner than citizens of a dozen other developed nations and the usual suspects -- obesity, traffic accidents and a high murder rate -- are not to blame, researchers reported on Thursday.

Instead, poor healthcare may be to blame, the team at Columbia University in New York reported.

They found that 15-year survival rates for men and women aged 45 to 65 have fallen in the United States relative to the other 12 countries over the past 30 years.

Such figures are frequently cited by supporters of healthcare reform, and critics often point out that the United States also has higher rates of obesity, more traffic fatalities and more murders than these countries.