Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Well, among other things, there is a geriatric gang bang, a ballet stressing the sexual symbolism of motorcycles, and a sketch about a young man's sexual initiation into a jaded Restoration court where the male courtiers are equipped with waving phalluses...
...this business you leave no stone unturned. He was driving his new 1976 white Datsun, the first new car he had ever owned. One of the reasons investigative reporting had gotten old with him was the threats he had received--remember in the Jimmy Breslin book, The Gang That Couldn' Shoot Straight, how the old Mafia don sent his wife out every morning to start the Cadillac, just in case? It was no laughing matter to Bolles, and he had always taped the car hood to make sure nobody had tampered with it. But now he had a new life...
Literature still provides the dominant myth of Dixie. Tennessee Williams' hostile parlors, James Dickey's blood rites. William Faulkner's epic feuds, Margaret Mitchell's antebellum aristocrats, Richard Wright's mangled blacks supply the melodramatic leads. Popular culture contributes the script. Barrelbellied redneck sheriffs and chanting, chain-gang Negroes have been staples of films since...
...denoted simply and rather sweetly by a frame freeze of their plastered visage. Ultimately, though, pies and even splurge become harmless in a raucous grand finale that finds the entire cast embroiled in an all-out battle of sweet shooting and pie heaving. No one perishes, and the gang war turns to open revelry when the combatants, richly creamed but unbowed, lay down their arms and join in a rinky-tink anthem to brotherhood...
...best moments in the movie come with their smallest gestures: Bugsy snapping the brim of his fedora; Tallulah cosying up to a customer, taking off his glasses and starting to tease him as the flustered fellow gropes desperately for his tortoise shells; Dandy Dan deflecting a compliment from his gang with an uncharacteristic- thus unconvincing- show of humility and a disingenuous demurrer. "Too kind, guys. Too kind...