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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...greedy murmur of little men." ... "I love this dirty town." ... "My right hand hasn't seen my left hand in 30 years." ... "Cat's in the bag and the bag's in the river." ... "He's got the morals of a guinea pig and the scruples of a gangster." ... "Here's mud in your column!" ... "Starting today, you can play marbles with his eyeballs." ... "This syrup you're giving out with, you pour over waffles, not J.J. Hunsecker." ... "I'd hate to take a bite out of you - you're a cookie full of arsenic." ... "Come back, Sidney, I want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Sweet Smells | 3/21/2002 | See Source »

DIED. LAWRENCE TIERNEY, 82, actor; in Los Angeles. A consummate B-movie tough guy, Tierney played the title role in the 1945 gangster classic Dillinger, in addition to roles in more than 70 other films. His drinking landed him in bar brawls and headlines in his midcentury heyday, and eventually sidelined his career. A comeback in the '80s and '90s culminated in his role as a gang leader in Quentin Tarantino's 1992 crime drama Reservoir Dogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Mar. 11, 2002 | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

...DIED. LAWRENCE TIERNEY, 82, veteran American actor who excelled at tough-guy roles in 1940s and '50s films noirs; in Los Angeles. Over an 80-movie career, Tierney was best known for playing the title role in the 1945 gangster classic Dillinger, and enjoyed a resurgence of fame at age 73 playing the sinister leader of a criminal gang in Quentin Tarantino's 1992 cult film Reservoir Dogs. DIED. SPIKE MILLIGAN, 83, irreverent comedian and founding member of The Goon Show, the anarchic 1950s radio series co-starring Harry Secombe, Michael Bentine and Peter Sellers that redefined modern British humor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

...head of marketing for popular Korean Internet portal www.freechal.com, and one of her jobs is to dream up virtual fashions and accessories for avatars, cartoon characters that stand in for a user online. When you use Freechal, you can outfit your avatar in a range of styles: punk rocker, gangster, curvy superhero. To do so, though, you have to pay real-world cash. Says Ryou: "Romantic is going to be big this spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: E-commerce | 3/11/2002 | See Source »

...Jump for joy” a strut that Bono seems almost incapable of these days. “Hide Away” is so infused with trademark Jagger-swagger it would turn new-found fan Britney green. Jagger alternates between wailing like a saxophone and muttering like a gangster, “Make sure that I never come back/Disappear and I never come back/Haaaaaaaiiide away...

Author: By Andrew R. Iliff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Can't Get Enough of Mick's Love | 1/11/2002 | See Source »

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