Word: molls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than a symbol, gives him blood and flesh and a life of trudgery to fight and conquer. And he gives him a friend and a lover. The lover is Clara Lukacs, a lurid beauty with creamy skin and silky hair, a mortician's daughter and a mobster's moll who escapes with Joe from the Great Depression. They can never run far enough; the depression overwhelms them, the world closes in until the glamorous doll is no more than a housewife in Jacksontown, Indiana, and the noble free-spirit is the headlight man on the assembly line at Bennett...
...SHORT, Gloria is a sappy PG movie about a gun moll with a heart of gold--a two-hour meditation on a cliche. There is very little more than that: something, perhaps, like "love wins in the end," "little people can beat the system," or "women can beat men at their won game." There are all sorts of self-conscious messages in Gloria, tacked on like flyers on a kiosk. All of them are upbeat; isn't that what people want...
...talks to would make an interesting book: the president of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the night watchman who discovered the Watergate break-in, a rebel United Mine Workers leader, a professional wrestling promoter, a retired president of a Chicago bank, an anti-FDR Black, and ex-gun moll, Ted Turner, Coleman Youn and others. They are not all nice people--the interview with Joan Crawford, conducted in 1963, is particularly damning, given the revelations of Mommie Dearest. Terkel just lets them talk, egomaniacs, saints and sinners. They only differ from a truly representative sample of the nation...
Gloria Swenson (get it?) was once a chorine and a mobster's moll. Now she's on the lam from her old pals, with a neighbor's Puerto Rican son in tow. For two hours of screen time, Gloria and tough little Phil (and the movie) meander around Manhattan because the Mob has covered all the bus, train and air terminals and the fugitives never think to rent a car. But nothing fazes Gloria, who smokes Salems down through the filters, talks cheekily with hoods and, in defense of her ward and for the sheer hell...
...which actually means spying, strikebreaking and union busting, and Bennett has been having more than a spot of trouble with the workers at his Indiana auto-body plant. workers at his Indiana auto-body plant. The two sides make a business agreement, and the head crook generously gives his moll Clara to Bennett to sweeten the bargain...