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...saying no, the grass roots are shouting yes. Rural farmers are inspired by Jackson's sermons on the value of the vote; teen-age urban blacks are turned on by his clenched-fist determination; the downtrodden hear in his ringing tones an authentic voice for their concerns. A hustler, perhaps, but a hustler on their behalf. "He does a lot better with the masses than with the leadership," says Holman of the National Urban Coalition. Wherever he goes he attracts enthusiastic crowds, rousing them, inspiring them and drawing them into his quest. "I feel it is important that...
July 29 and 30 The Hustler...
...next day, after Los Angeles police and a deputy district attorney told Steinberg not to destroy the tapes, he called the D.A. back to say the tapes had been stolen from his office. Twenty-four hours after the theft supposedly occurred, Larry Flynt, publisher of the raunchy Hustler magazine, said he had made a deal to buy the tapes for $1 million but that Steinberg reneged. Steinberg denied any deal...
...winter street outside the Heritage Club, dedicated to liberty and justice for all, but open only to Wasp males of elevated social and financial status, Billy Ray Valentine (Eddie Murphy) is working his latest scam. Black, and a street hustler not quite as shrewd as he thinks he is, Billy Ray is dressed in rags and crouched on a rolling platform. He is pretending to be a blind and legless Viet Nam veteran, begging and trying to make it with a foxy passer-by ("Ain't you never heard of Porgy and Bess...
Angelo lives with his brawling family in a New York tenement, but he spends most of his time, day and night, out on the streets. Whether peddling wilted flowers in a local restaurant or just fast-talking a pretty girl, Angelo is a born hustler who has a fleet foot in each of two worlds-the gypsy and the Anglo-and who has no time to be a child. There is a plot here-Angelo and Brother Michael trail another gypsy, a garrulous, carbuncular drunk named Steve, to recover the family ring-but this is mainly a device to give...