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Despite her little learning, Ellen is something of a student of the language. She ponders little oddities of British speech: "I wonder why everything always has to be nice, a nice cup of tea, a nice plate of bread and butter." Not surprisingly, the term brothel attracts her attention: "That is a terrible word and yet also a funny word, kind of domestic in a way, it always brings back my aunt saying when I was a kid living with her: Drink it all up now, that broth'll stick to your ribs." She looks at stale sayings with...
With her large, dark eyes and thick, waist-length hair, the 18-year-old was a favorite among the truck drivers who called at the squalid brothel on Highway 45 in Ulundurpet, a small town in southern India. When she was placed in a ) reformatory for convicted prostitutes in June, five men offered to bail her out. Today she is emaciated, weighing only 62 lbs., her hair is falling out, and she is showing unmistakable signs of mental derangement. The source of the woman's suffering: the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or AIDS, virus. Doctors at the home want to delay...
Hawthorne (pop. 4,000) does not have a Burger King, but it does have a casino, a legal brothel nearby and 9% unemployment. Locals and drifters thronged to UXB's headquarters the first day it was open, eager for jobs that paid $8.50 an hour. But the company had trouble finding workers willing to be a scraphog for more than a few days at a time. So two months ago, UXB decided to look beyond Hawthorne for additional hands, stirring up what seemed to be an undercurrent of prejudice and resurrecting some old resentments from a painful...
...inside Richard Pryor; Candide is not one of them. Yet that is the role he plays in this drably rouged-up autobiography, which he directed and co-wrote (with Rocco Urbisci and Paul Mooney). The contours of Pryor's misspent life are the same--raised in his grandma's $ brothel, early career working cheap nightclubs, a bunch of misunderstood and misunderstanding wives, championship bouts with alcohol and drugs leading to the final free-base conflagration--but the guts are missing. The comic here is a sweet-souled wimp: he uses a gun only in defense of a friend...
Pryor presents us with a film that says, "Sure, I messed up my life with coke and booze, but it's all because my mother was a prostitute, my father was a brute, we lived in a brothel, and the bullies down the block beat...