Word: pimp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...especially offensive because people of my generation had always believed they held nothing more sacred than the welfare of their children. To find that the children disagreed with this conviction was devastating. Now we have come to a time when a son can accuse his father of being a pimp for his homosexual daughter-and the father, shameless as he is, fails even to be insulted by the accusation...
...obsessed with shooting a presidential candidate and protecting a young prostitute (Jodie Foster), beset by aggressive urges as well as sexual ones (coded in the film as a pure-hearted defense of a prostitute), finds an acceptable resolution: he spares the candidate and instead shoots the girl's pimp and one of her Johns, thus symbolically killing his lust and emerging in his own eyes as something of a hero...
...terror. But not long after the initial murders, Gould changes tone and gives us "A Day in the Life of a N.Y. Cop." As Murphy and Corelli save a Puerto Rican drag queen from suicide, subdue a knife-wielding derelict, chase a swift purse-snatcher, (angle with a slimy pimp, and deliver the child of an unwed fourteen-year-old, the movie becomes an inner city Adam...
Murphy: That pimp thinks he can own me for a couple odd dollars, just like he owns every other cop in the neighborhood...
...rapid pour of a bottle of bourbon. Thomas Derrah takes off brilliantly with a comic interpolation of Richard III--it is this sort of magical appearance of the impossible that makes Lulu so consistently interesting and amusing. Tony Shalhoub is chilling in his flat, langourous portrayal of a pimp, although not as chilling as Harry Murphy, who comes straight out of a John Carpenter movie...