Word: gangsterisms
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...effect if it can use five. It has all the sleaze and brutality of “Sin City” or a Guy Ritchie movie with none of the artistry, humor, or cleverness. The plot, such as it is, tells the story of Joey (Paul Walker), a gangster whose job it is to dispose of incriminating guns, apparently by putting them in his basement. Not surprisingly, his son’s friend Oleg (Cameron Bright) gets his hands on one. He shoots his abusive stepfather and goes on the run, and Joey tries to get his gun back through...
...story of an Angry Young Man who--despite his well-concealed heart of gold--manages to get himself addicted to drugs and booze. After a string of arrests and a lot of self-destructive behavior, he winds up in a Minnesota rehab clinic, where he befriends a scary-funny gangster (also with a heart of gold) and falls in love with a tragic recovering crack addict (ditto). Redemption ensues...
...Little Pieces is the graphic, bombastic story of a troubled, angry young man who-despite his well-concealed heart of gold-manages to get himself addicted to drugs and booze. After a string of arrests he winds up in a Minnesota rehab center, where he befriends a scary-funny gangster and falls in love with a tragic recovering crack addict. Redemption ensues...
...well - is pick out the brilliant absurdities in any particular news story. And I think there are a lot of them in the Abramoff case. There are some very cinematic and theatrical aspects to it, right down to him coming out of the courthouse dressed like a gangster. I also think it's fun watching all of these people distancing themselves from him, and going back and looking through their own histories to see what kind of connections they had to Abramoff. It kind of reminds me of what happens when someone gets a venereal disease, and the group...
...Lake Pontchartrain. In her teenage years, Brown was raised largely by her sisters. By 14, she was pregnant with Vivian; Angeline followed barely five years later. Brown lived for a while with Angeline's father in Cobb County, near Atlanta, but he drifted back to his old gangster life in New Orleans and was gunned down in 1999. Brown reluctantly moved back to New Orleans in April to get Vivian away from kids at their apartment complex who were harassing...