Word: moochers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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YATES IS JUST as successful in creating Dave's friends. Moocher, Mike and Ciro, all potentially bland stereotypes, are well-cast and well-acted. Moocher, short but solid, is one of those kids who's never really going to go anywhere, but he has one of the film's great moments--when an employer tells him, "Be sure and punch the time clock, Shorty," he does, literally, and with style. Mike, played by Dennis Quade, is a pretty standard version of the hot-rodding, tough former quarterback--you last saw him in American Graffiti--but in Breaking Away...
...were Duke Ellington's granddaughter, Mercedes Ellington and Cab Calloway, 70, who used to Hi-dee-ho at the club in the '30s. "Just another gig," shrugged Calloway, who does about 150 a year and has just recorded a disco version of his 1931 hit Minnie the Moocher. "I live good. I don't indulge in anything other than the normal indulgences," he reflected. Indulging in his famous hep jive, he also complimented the press: "It really grabs me to have these fine scribes to beat up my gums with...
Hootchy-Kootcher. The Red menace finds unwitting allies among "the Moochers," a category into which Reed consigns all those he regards as black opportunists-Ed Yellings' own son, for instance, Street Yellings, a violent militant who has a rape clinic named after him. There is also Ed's daughter Minnie the Moocher ("a lowdown hootchy-kootcher," according to Cab Calloway), whose entourage is a group of Amazonian bodyguards known as the Daho-meyan Softball Team...
...nostalgically costumed dancing audience looked like leftovers from that famous last tango in Paris. But the scene was Manhattan's huge, tacky Roseland Ballroom, and the crowd was bebopping to '30s songs like Minnie the Moocher. The occasion: The Pointer Sisters' highly hooplaed New York debut, hard on the spike heels of their hit album, simply titled The Pointer Sisters. "We're not rhythm and blues or jazz. We're a new category−variety," declared Ruth, the oldest of the four daughters of an Oakland preacher. The quartet mixed jive talk with Lambert, Hendricks...
...Super Moocher. That self-defense, like so much else he says, is subject to rebuttal. He is full of tips on how to unnerve an opponent, how to arrange for the other person to have the sun in his eyes, how to tease a tired adversary into forgoing a legitimate rest between sets. Perhaps his own favorite hustle of all time took place when he was on a golf kick. He knew that he could beat a particular teaching pro, and so he covertly arranged for the pro to be hired by a Florida club. Then Bobby would show...