Word: boys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should have seen the Atlantic Ocean in those days," says Lou, an aging errand boy for the Mob played by Burt Lancaster in Louis Malle's 1981 movie Atlantic City. Lou is strolling down the Boardwalk, recalling the city's hip-swiveling days when a political boss strolled on the Boardwalk in the company of Al Capone. "Now it's all so goddamn legal," he mumbles. "Tutti- frutti ice cream and craps...
...picture's impact is its straight-ahead melodramatic structure. At its simplest level the movie functions as a well-constructed mystery story. A black man, a gardener named Gordon Ngubene (Winston Ntshona), comes to his employer, Ben du Toit (Donald Sutherland), asking him to help find his son. The boy was taken into police custody during the Soweto protests of 1976 and has disappeared. Du Toit, a calm and rational man, believes this is surely just a bureaucratic muddle that can be easily ameliorated by a solid citizen's firm but polite intervention...
...Like the Boy Scouts, we're prepared," saidChief Petty Officer Art Riccio
...with almost icy calm, on the moment and the ball. "My whole career," she recalled last week, "people have been talking about how tough I am. Now that I'm losing some, I can see how tough I was -- the killer instinct, the single-mindedness, playing like a machine. Boy, that's what made me a champion...
...sexual habits. Last week, after the Washington Times broke the story, Frank admitted that in 1985 he paid for sex from a male prostitute who had advertised in a gay newspaper. The Congressman then hired him, with his personal funds, as a $20,000-a-year errand boy for his Capitol Hill apartment. In 1987, Frank said, he decided that the man was using the apartment for prostitution. He said he fired...