Word: hustler
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...Hustler magazine alone has a subscription rate of 7 million and an estimated circulation of 29 million, more than that of Time and Newsweek combined...
...recent cover of Hustler displays a woman being fed into a meat grinder...
...fine-tuned beat steer way wide of solemnity. Specials and Madness members even dress in good-humored approximation of the Kingston "rude boys" of the '60s, from the careless cuffs of their pegged pants up to the porkpie hats that sit on their heads like a street hustler's version of cap and bells. In performance, both bands leap about in transports of benign dementia. The highlight of a Madness show is a ska version of Swan Lake that features a couple of roadies conking their noggins together like a couple of billy goats in a brawl...
...amused without being selfabsorbed. Jameson Parker, as a blond, bland Waspy square (he's pre-med), is perhaps a tad too deep into his role, appealing without being truly interesting. Brad Davis (the sweet victim of Midnight Express) proves here that he is really an actor. Playing a hustler carving out a career as a New Journalist, he is as active as he was passive in the ear lier film. One begins to think he overdoes the part, but it may be that he was asked to force his performance by Director Cohen in order to provide the film...
...even more convinced that Grandma's is the right choice for him. "I've paid my dues for ten years," he says, "and I've been a hustler creating good things for poor people. Now I want to create good things for myself. Since I stopped being a professional do-gooder I've realized that each solution creates a different set of problems. All you can do is create a daily world that's decent...