Word: hoodlum
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...first in the presence of a stranger, are almost uniformly generous with their time. We have come to think of our country as a dangerous place. Ironically, Least Heat Moon writes toward the end of his travels, "I'd traveled 10,000 miles and not encountered a single hoodlum. But I'd been taken for one several times." The observation at once seems to reflect Americans' fear of one another and their underlying good nature...
...program. This show bears a more than coincidental resemblance to Sid Caesar's old Your Show of Shows. The perils it presents to a man whose joints have been vulcanized by excesses of meaningful booze and meaningless sex are substantial: an erratically egomaniacal star (Joseph Bologna); an aggrieved hoodlum (Cameron Mitchell), convinced he is being satirized in one of the regular sketches and determined to have violent revenge; a writing staff headed by a man (Bill Macy) who knows only three emotions-panic, depression and obsequiousness; the general hysteria surrounding the weekly production of a program that is broadcast...
Charley is No. 5 in the hierarchy, and there is seemingly nothing to block his ascent-until he falls heel over head in love with a semigorgeous broad named Irene Walker. To the hulking bachelor hoodlum, she is "a classic, like the Truman win over Dewey." Irene is not Sicilian, but a Pole from Los Angeles who is semimarried to a Jew; she is also a freelance assassin who has shot one man for the Prizzis and, on the side, scammed them for $360 ($360? The other 000 is always omitted in family conversation, supposedly "to confuse the tourists"). Novelist...
...idol, because he did it all and never got a black eye." Of his own acting, he says: "My roles may have been comparatively easy, because I was generally the hoodlum, and I understood that type perfectly well. No strain...
DIED. Isadore ("Kid Cann") Blumenfeld, 80, colorful Minneapolis hoodlum and international Prohibition bootlegger whose career was marked by acquittals-for such crimes as kidnaping, murder and fraud -before he was convicted in 1960 on charges of white slavery and in 1961 of jury tampering and sentenced to seven years in prison; in New York City. Though he was Jewish, Blumenfeld donated 10% of his estimated $10 million fortune to churches as well as synagogues. "I believe in playing all the angles," he explained. "I'm superstitious...