Word: greenstreet
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...which he makes himself out to be a second generation Sam Spade, Eddie-somewhat to his astonishment-gets a call for a job. He shows up at a local hotel, where he picks up a package from a fat man who resembles Falcon's Kasper Gutman (the Sidney Greenstreet character). Inside the package are a sizable bundle of money and a pistol. Eddie is plunged into a plot as intricate and confounding as The Big Sleep...
...didn't see anyone at that point actually assault a cop. But people were getting really worked up, swearing pigs-eat-shit over and over at those fat somehow-unreacting faces. One cop near me kept muttering "Keep it up, you're gonna get it"-incredibly much like Sidney Greenstreet's thug sidekick Wilmer said to Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon...
...Alexandria itself, that city Durrell called "the wine press of love." Fox dispatched a second-string camera crew for a brisk six weeks' worth of location filming, but Cukor shot most of the picture at home in California-on a set that conjured up visions of Sidney Greenstreet-Peter Lorre North African thrillers. The ersatz locale is painfully obvious. "Justine," wrote Cyril Connolly, "is the spirit of Alexandria, sensual and skeptical, self-torturing and passionate." Cukor and his collaborators have raided Durrell's exotic garden and left only a pale hothouse flower...
...Grand Turk. A Union Jack jumbo necktie at Truc and then, sniffing the honey scent of the beeswax candles on the way upstairs, one sits down, coked to the gills but dressed to the teeth, at a Bogie flick to experience the greatest pleasure in the dome: hissing Sidney Greenstreet. That's life, and it's all made possible by Cyrus Harvey and Bryant Haliday who own Brattle Enterprises...
...account, led the group-think that produced such slogans as "Lucky Strike Green Has Gone to War." He was one of the few who got along with irascible Cigarette Magnate George Washington Hill, as a result rose to vice president. In the 1947 movie, The Hucksters, in which Sydney Greenstreet represented Hill, suave Adolphe Menjou was supposed to be Foote, bleeding ulcerwise and beaming sycophantwise as Greenstreet spat on a conference table. "I don't think I could impersonate Mr. Menjou very well, and I don't think he could impersonate me very well," laughs Foote...