Word: pimp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suggestive conversation culminating in a sensual dance between Ruth and Joey. Then Lenny, matter-of-factly, proposes that Ruth remain in England as the sexual companion of the family, and that she also earn a little money on the side as one of his whores (his occupation as a pimp now being revealed). Ruth coolly accepts and her husband, Teddy, readily agrees to the setup. As the lights dim, Ruth sits at center stage, fondling Joey, while the old father, Max, crawls at her feet, begging her to "kiss...
Most remarkable about Sunday, Bloody Sunday from a film perspective is Schlesinger's sudden acquisition of taste and tact. The man who made New York City into a playground of straw men so that a pimp and a hustler could look like folk heroes here presents the first sequences which portray homosexuality and Jewish ethnicity without smirking at their subjects. Some affectation is still present: a wayward bedside TV set, which brings back bad memories of Sylvia Miles'; a sinuous pan up Elkin's body as seen by Alex through a shower curtain; postured bit-playing by effete types...
...Willie the Pimp" followed, and it allowed all of the musicians to demonstrate their worth. Ian Underwood and Don Preston were brilliant on keyboards, but much of the credit for holding the music together belongs to Aynsley Dunbar, the drummer. Never missing a beat (an extremely difficult task, given the complexity of Zappa's music), Dunbar was the second star, over-shadowed only by Zappa himself...
...answer lies in further examination, and one begins to see that Black John is at once street corner pimp, southern creole preacher and medicine show hustler. One who will use any means to achieve his ends. He is the Hootchie Coochie Man, the boastful con-artist who walks on guilded splinters and sees everything...
This one starts out by recounting the rapacious career of one Thomas Oliver, who was born in an Ohio River town in 1870. At 13 he left home, and by 17 he was prospering as a pickpocket, pimp and smuggler. After another ten years of wandering, he winds up down the river in New Orleans. His first big money comes from running whorehouses, though the early jazz-band accompaniments nearly drive his tin ears crazy. Prohibition bootlegging eventually accounts for his real power and fortune. While it must be said that Oliver is not Italian, his partners are called Manzini...