Word: moe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...getting a lower price from Mobster Moe Dalitz, when trying to buy his Stardust Hotel: "You may be surprised how many times a man like Moe will make concessions for a friend. I mean, for example, that I believe Moe would go further as a gesture of personal friendship to you than he ever would as the result of negotiating pressure brought by me. You see, if I try to bargain Moe into a deal, his pride asserts itself and he says 'Never!' Whereas as a favor and gesture of personal friendship to you ... Moe might easily...
...heart of Michaels's anger and accomodation to society is present powerlessness--the book opens with an early remembrance of Uncle Moe dropping dead of a heart attack, and the subsequent death of a friend. The loss of the narrator's virginity is compared to sinking a difficult jump shot from the corner; there is no feeling, only the contest. Brilliant craft alone does not give this book its force, which flows from those occasional passages where Michaels makes clear that the winners of the game end up with nothing...
...Died. Moe Howard, 78, last survivor of the original Three Stooges slapstick comedy team; of lung cancer; in Hollywood. His black bangs cropped as if his barber had used a chamber pot, Moe cheerfully assaulted colleagues Larry, Curly and Shemp through more than 200 1930s farces, whacking them with mallets, tweaking noses, kicking shins, and deftly delivering thousands of the two-fingered eye punches that became his trademark, and endeared him in the 1950s to the first generation of television children...
...Cantor and, what promised to be the show of all shows--a talk by Professor Martin Kilson. And a fifty dollar essay contest on "Why I Like the Stooges," the entries to be read aloud between films. Finally a live phone hook-up with the last surviving original Stooge, Moe, from his nest in an Old Actor's Home in Southern Cal. This last emerged as a taped interview with Officer Joe Bolton (who has brought the Stooges to New York audiences for twenty year, which no one could hear, of course...
...Moe had been too sick to come to the phone, "Shut up and show the goddamn movie!" they yelled, perhaps in frustration at Moe's illness. It seemed paradoxical considering that they'd obviously showed up for the carnival of it all, and a mere screening would have been no more than a mellow and healthily rowdy blast. The Stooges all alone couldn't have aroused anything but good nature...