Word: gangsterized
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...setting the stage, presents three characters or archetypes based upon the three sides of Davies's shifting personality. There is Mr. Black, the original altruist and vanguard of the people, who gradually is tranformed into a crazy, tyrannical despot as his power increases. Then there is Flash, a corrupt gangster-like politician currently in power, whose mere presence is a cause for alarm among the people. Finally there is the Tramp, a social dropout who acts as the detached narrator and is probably the character with whom Davies identifies most...
...reputation as a good musician who could juice up anyone's record, and he played behind everyone from Captain Beefheart and the Everly Brothers to Paul Anka. His work on the sound track of 1970's Performance, a movie of scattershot brilliance about a gangster and a rock star, further keyed up interest in Cooder's own album debut. "I think the people at the record company expected some kind of wild-assed rock-'n'-roller," Cooder recalls of that first solo album. "I gave 'em something a little different...
Author Smith also offers two baroque subplots, one involving the lost identity of Mrs. Farquarson's son, now grown to adulthood and doubt, and the other an entirely self-contained gangster movie. They are irrelevant but great fun to read-a fragment of boozy conversation in a bar or a bedroom, a Polish picnic with a cast of thousands, a gangland execution in which the 400-lb. guest of honor is carted to a packinghouse and recycled as lunch meat...
...overfull belly draped in his fancy trousers as he complains, "Every Jew and Wop in the shop eats my bread and behind my back says, 'a sonofabitch.'" To complete the group there is the gentle failure of a father who lives in the past, and the small-time gangster with a heart of gold who can't express his more tender feelings and who is no more a crook than any capitalist...
...Shot (1942). Humphrey Bogart is a gangster on the lam in a flashback from his deathbed. Ch. 56, 11:30 p.m. B/W, 2 hours...