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Harry Angel is investigating one such compact. Louis Cyphre (Robert De Niro), a dapper gent with long fingernails that could rip your heart out, has hired him to find Johnny Favorite, who hit it big as a crooner before the war, then disappeared, body and soul, welshing on a commitment to Cyphre. The people who knew Favorite -- a junkie physician (Michael Higgins), a blues guitarist (Brownie McGhee), a society girlfriend (Charlotte Rampling) and her father (Stocker Fontelieu) -- share two annoying habits: they won't tell all they know, and they keep turning up dead, in circumstances that implicate Angel...
Wrongheadedness and bizarre tales abounded. Warner Bros. had filmed The Maltese Falcon twice before Director John Huston got hold of it, first under the clanking title Dangerous Female, then as Satan Met a Lady. Studio biggies were narrowly headed off from calling Huston's version The Gent from Frisco. Before Humphrey Bogart got the starring role, it had been turned down by George Raft, Paul Muni, John Garfield and Edward G. Robinson. Edward C. Judson, a middle-aged businessman who married the 18-year-old Rita Cansino and guided her career as Rita Hayworth, kept an electric train...
...center is a genial gent named Harry Joy (Barry Otto), who loves his family, his ad-agency job, and the art of storytelling. After spinning one of his tales, Harry suffers a massive heart attack. For four minutes his soul leaves his body, and when it returns, the world seems just slightly insane. His wife is having it off with his partner -- on a table at Harry's favorite restaurant. His son displays a fondness for Nazi uniforms and sex with his sister. An executive at Harry's agency presents him with a list of carcinogens in the products they...
...print." He also turned his hand to cartoon captions ("Mother: 'It's broccoli, dear.' Child: 'I say it's spinach and I say the hell with it.' ") and to "Newsbreaks," those column-ending snippets of published gaffes, capped by New Yorker quips. A Pittsburgh paper once garbled as follows: "Gent's laundry taken home. Or serve at parties at night." White's response: "Oh, take it home...
...bothers to think of it. His second wife Susan, assistant editor of a literary weekly, is both a cut or two above him in class and still devoted after 2 1/2 years of marriage. All in all, Stanley's life suits him just fine. He passes for a liberated gent, supporting his wife's career and ordering drinks for ladies who drop in at one of his favorite pubs, where the rules make it, as even Stanley allows, "hard on women...