Word: agribiz
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Dates: during 1977-1977
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Pretty soon Leroy finds himself in Los Angeles, shacked up with a pretty union maid (Lonette McKee), working as a painter for an arm of the same agribiz octopus that chased him away from home, and talking more like this than like thay-uht. He's not a hero, but he's a gifted survivor and a natural-born fink. In return for forgetting what he knows of an assassination attempt by a company thug on the union leader, Leroy is promoted to foreman, and he loses touch with his worker friends in La Causa as quickly...
...good part: Pryor is splendidly funny. When the agribiz company transfers him back to his home town-by now he's an exec in a three-piece suit-he sets up his mistress and their baby on one side of town and lives with his wife (Margaret Avery) on the other. Since he is trying to be true to his mistress (here Sicily obtrudes), he doesn't make love to his wife. She decides that he must be accustomed to a sophisticated, Los Angeles kind of foreplay, and a marvelously boisterous (and girlsterous) scene follows in which...
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