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...face the longest odds. "You have people preying on these kids from the minute they arrive at the Greyhound station and the train stations," says Barry Fisher, program director at San Francisco's Huckleberry House. "I remember one 12- year-old girl who was quickly scooped up by a pimp." AIDS is especially devastating: of 12 youths from a Hollywood squat tested last year, half were HIV-positive...
Lawrence Hamilton plays the title panjandrum as a tap-dance master with the wardrobe of a pimp. As the cowardly Lord High Executioner, Ross Lehman bawdily woos Devine to save his own neck while sporting a getup and manner reminiscent of Eddie Cantor. Despite first-act dances that look too much alike and a disappointment from Ben Wright, who is winsome as the vanilla hero...
...time. There was a moment when she asked him as a nice middle class girl what was it like to be a prostitute and how did you actually pick up men, so he dressed her up and put her out on the sidewalk and he played her pimp. They howled with laughter over that, especially when she got a client. I think that was a lot of fun. But he also had a tendency to decapitate everybody after a certain point, decide they were unsuitable or not morally rigorous enough. He was always dropping his friends. One of the problems...
...what's on their mind. His TV-obsessed partner (Ron Eldard) admits to feeling "a little gypped" that the first black man he has worked with is so lacking in flash. In a sting operation to nab a call-girl ring, Gigante is picked to go undercover as a pimp. He bristles, saying, "I don't see why the color of my skin automatically makes me a prime candidate to portray a pimp." (The captain, bristling back, says he'll get someone else for the job: "We've got plenty of guys in this precinct who are very much...
...actors are getting today, got silence in response. This was terrible; I got tense. But after a tenacious follow-up, T started talking: "I thank God I'm in a position where I can pick and choose--there are some roles I don't play. I don't do pimp roles, I don't do dope-dealing roles, or whatever. Whatever role I play is a positive role; it's a strong role. Never negative. Maybe in Rocky people thought, maybe saw me as a villain in a sense because Rocky was the hero, so anybody who fought Rocky...