Word: gigolos
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...Sopranos' Edie Falco), which aired over the summer, is a sort of civilian M*A*S*H, focusing on a pill-popping, overworked nurse, devoted to her work but cheating on her husband. Likewise, while it has polarized critics, HBO's Hung (about a high school coach turned gigolo in suburban Detroit) is at its best a darkly comic story about surviving after an economic bubble pops. These shows (like Showtime's multiple-personality comedy United States of Tara) handle deeper, more mature themes than many network cop shows. What is the difference between these comedies...
...position to influence the actions of at least one important person. In the midst of mistakenly giving Joel horse tranquilizers and advising him to cheat on his wife with hot new temp Cindy (Mila Kunis, “Forgetting Sarah Marshall”), Dean convinces Joel to hire a gigolo to seduce Suzie in order to lessen his guilt about his own planned indescretion. Heavily drugged, Joel agrees to the sexual hire, not knowing that the girl he’s aiming to cheat with is, in fact, a con artist manipulating his underlings in order to bankrupt Reynold?...
...sports bar at the nearby Marriott, the aptly named Sidelines, where his old pal Dean (Ben Affleck, shaggy as a bear) tends bar. Dean believes Xanax is the cure for everything, including the common cold. Their conversations head in absurd directions - Dean thinks Joel should hire a gigolo to seduce Suzie so he can sleep with the alluring Cindy guilt-free, a suggestion that ultimately does more damage than Cindy does - but at the same time have a real naturalism. Imagine Pulp Fiction's Jules and Vincent sitting at the Marriott bar with no mission more pressing than peeling...
...Quick Gun, the hero of this goofy, riotously colorful comedy, is a cowboy who's also an Indian (from the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu): a pudgy chap with pomaded hair and a gigolo's thin mustache, outfitted in white hat and boots, green shirt, orange pants, pink scarf, leopard-skin vest. He's determined to stop his nemesis from turning the Tamil dish of vegetarian crepes into all-meat patties in a chain of McDosa fast-food restaurants, and to achieve his mission he'll need to be reincarnated, as himself. Originally a series of spots...
...them. That makes the exploits of Helg Sgarbi, née Russak, even more exceptional. The 44-year-old former banker, handsome, tall and well mannered, has shown a remarkable talent in the field of effective affection. In the four cases that have become public, the "Swiss Gigolo," as Sgarbi is now known, managed to collect an impressive $11.8 million from women that fell...