Word: pimp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gets none of the cinematic support that made the management case study of an aspiring businessman in "human satisfaction" into a success in Risky Business. Where that film, for instance, used exaggerated shots to distort Joel's parents visually, matching their distortion in the mind of the aspiring pimp, here Director of Photography Vilmos Zsigmond displays none of the visual creativity he and steven Spiclberg brought to Close Encounters of the Third Kind. It is as if he simply ran the production like a Broadway show and set up a single camera in front of the stage. Whenever the film...
...humorist and Roman Catholic apologist Hilaire Belloc, is a lightning plotter. The action, however, is never as arresting as those who initiate it. The smitten Hughie is a striking example of what the author calls "an overdeveloped inner life." Bernadette is a stinging portrait of stupidity (a pimp recruits her with veiled threats, and she mistakes him for a social worker). Blore is an overbearing ass who makes a big production about serving a modest Spanish wine and talks of W. Somerset Maugham's The Moon and Sixpence as if he has discovered the latest bestseller...
...story itself seems designed to be incomprehensible. A convoluted mess of recurring clues, recurring thugs, and recurring murders, the plot features a murderous priest, a mystery-lady in a leopard coat, a grotesque pimp and a complete cast, shuffled and re-shuffled, of the stock characters. Throughout the film, in fact, the plot contains all the typical characteristics of film noir...
...something one wants to get too close to. Some say that Fosse's new film Star 80 is merely a violent update of A Star is Born: pretty, naive young Dorothy Stratten (Mariel Hemingway) is discovered working in a Vancouver Dairy Queen by a small-time promoter and pimp, Paul Snider (Eric Roberts). He wines and dines her, wins her away from her mother and younger sister--and gets her into the centerfold of Playboy magazine. Dorothy marries Paul, becomes Playmate of the Year for 1980, and then just as she's beginning a film career and an affair with...
...Dairy Queen counter in Vancouver, B.C., sent the first crude nudes to Playboy's talent scouts and faked her mother's name on his underage protegee's release form. But gratitude must have its limits, and as the publisher says, Paul "has the personality of a pimp." To which Dorothy replies, in her flat, little girl's voice, "Oh, Mr. Hefner, that's just the way he used to dress...