Word: gangsterisms
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...while performing in a Shakespeare play, according to Binger, that Gwynne was discovered by Broadway actress Helen Hayes, who helped launch his Broadway debut in 1952, as a gangster in the play "Mrs. McThing...
...news watching Ruther Batuigas, a police reporter for the city's Daily Star, a tabloid published by his uncle, Andrew Go. "He was forever solving some crime: interviewing the murderous leader of a jailhouse riot, bringing some fugitive in to face justice, surviving a shootout with a gunslinging gangster. One of the most exciting things I was ever allowed to do was hitch a ride with Ruther on his way to a story. Who knew what might have happened? His life was like a movie...
...flanked by two big-boned Nordic women. In halting English, he regales them with tales of how much his hotel accommodations cost on a recent trip. "Very much expensive," he repeats, as they dutifully nod. Across the room a powerfully built man in his 30s - displaying the latest Tokyo gangster style with his buzz cut and loud, metallic-colored tracksuit - sprawls on a couch, sleeping. A young blond sits by his side staring into space...
...earlier confrontations, Milosevic put up a fight. This time the resistance resembled a gangster shoot-out, not a military standoff. An estimated 20 supporters, and a well-armed and reportedly well-lubricated bodyguard fired back at police, injuring two officers and forcing the raid back. Milosevic tried to put a smooth face on the affair by telling a local TV station he was relaxing with "comrades" and sipping coffee. Nothing, it seemed, could shake his expert skills as a liar. Later, seeming more desperate, he vowed to a police commander that he would not be taken alive. Another...
...wonder the "heroes" of these films are often silent, sullen resisters. The title character of Jia's quietly powerful Xiao Wu is a thief with scruples: he won't give in to the system. He is spurned by an old gangster friend, harassed by the police, cursed by his father ("I should have drowned you in the urinal when you were born"). Finally, arrested for pickpocketing, he is hand-cuffed in a public square and left to be stared at. He is a zoo creature, behind the bars of the people's opprobrium. Jia would work on a larger canvas...