Word: cons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What he did have was a concealed .22cal. automatic pistol, also unlicensed. Sonny, his arm no longer in a sling, was booked on the concealed-weapon and no-license charges, plus careless, reckless and speedy driving. As an ex-con, he also faces a possible felony rap for carrying a weapon, concealed or not. He shoulda never left that stool...
Except for Seymour, all of Charlie's best friends are girls. The woman he really wants is Gilian Prosper (Salome Jens), a sex witch who "ignites without satisfying." None of the love affairs in But for Whom Charlie are particularly satisfying, and it would take a Syntopi-con to cross-reference their capricious complexity. What is satisfying is a foxy grandpa of a one-shot novelist, Brock Dunnaway, wittily played by David Wayne. A gadfly of sanity, Brock mocks the impotent heroes of modern drama, the internationale of homosexuals ("the homintern") and the "moment of truth" cultists...
...study of sexual mores in Sweden, conducted con brio by Alberto Sordi as a roving but forever disappointed Italian businessman...
Momma, Momma, Momma. Cassius' narcissistic posturing was not meant to convince. "Actually," he confided, "I respect Liston. That look of his shakes me." It was meant to humor, to prod, to annoy, to con Champion Liston into thinking that a young (22), tall (6 ft. 3 in.), sturdy (210 Ibs.) heavyweight with 119 amateur and pro victories behind him would be easy pickings for the man-monster who had twice butchered Floyd Patterson. And, my, how he succeeded, thanks to his unwitting accomplices, the sportswriters...
Perkins claims that he was strolling on the pier after refusing-an aging degenerate's offer of 2,000,000 francs for one of his paintings-and the painter. Con Man Jean-Claude Brialy says he spent the night of the crime trying to peddle his kid sister to a tourist. And Gigolo Renato Salvatori was supposedly helping his latest client recover from an overdose of sleeping pills. As the case of "the triplets" unfolds, police and jury realize that they may have to free two murderers to save one innocent man. But the really guilty ones are Director...