Word: dead-end
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...fast parking-lot brawl. From then on they become accomplices in misfortune. Gould inhabits some sort of foggy half-world of the hard scuffle, keeping company with a couple of soft-core hookers who serve beer and Fruit Loops for breakfast. Segal likes the style, likes the dead-end quality of the life, and he leaps into it with gusto. Winning is the best way to work out of melancholy, but once Segal and Gould hit big, they crap...
...Dead-End Beat. Where the movie works less well is in characterization. Nicholson's Gittis is a clever piece of acting, funny and winning, but Polanski and Towne do not give him the chance to get into any depth. Gittis is a nickel-and-dimer trying to boost himself into the big time. He wears sharp, fussy suits and throws out a line of bright chatter. But there are still times when he sounds like the dumb cop on the deadend Chinatown beat. All this is fine, but it is all there is. Chandler made Philip Marlowe into...
...Anthony's Church in Portsmouth, R.I. On hand for the occasion will be some 300 of her friends and admirers, including Arlene Dahl, George Jessel and Kate Smith. Betty had fetched up on the rectory doorstep last February, stone-broke and despondent about four divorces and a dead-end acting career. Taken on as an unpaid cook-housekeeper by Fathers Peter Maguire and James Hamilton, she wasted no time at all bouncing back. "She's lost none of her zip," said Father Maguire, adding proudly, "She does a tremendous thing with lamb." Baptized a Lutheran, Betty recently converted...
...live above their profitless one-throne barber shop. A worn-out, ex-vaudeville dancer, he passes the days playing checkers -- his ceremony with his old friend, Mr. Jenkins; Russell could never cut hair as well as he could dance. His daughter Adele supports the family by working at the dead-end Motor Vehicles job. Disgusted by the hard work that brought only physical and emotional exhaustion to the rest of the family, Russell's two sons decide to make their way in the world by converting the shop into a bootlegging joint. Pop goes along with the scheme...
...world of Eddie Coyle and "friends" is a passionless and dead-end one, as stony faced as the sentencing they suffer. The stolen goods they traffic and the robberies they commit, help support their families, with perhaps even enough leftover for that "trip to Florida." But they never make enough to quit the game. Jail, finally, is the only real stake. The game breeds a grim desperation. "Life's hard, but it's harder when you're stupid," says gunseller Jackie Brown. Not being stupid means making the best deal...