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...Manhattan last week, is essentially a sentimental domestic morality play of wayward youth, a play that is a dramatic refugee from the 1950s. EXcept that here the characters are black and the setting is the Detroit ghetto. The bad influence arrives in the form of Rico, a wonderfully reptilian pimp who means to apprentice Steve to his trade by having the lad peddle Mae in the streets. Will Steve choose the life of vice? Will he break his old mother's heart, not to mention...
...both dislocating and diverting to have such small-time Chayefsky framed in a raw ghetto context. Much of the wild street talk is funny, and the acting often superb. Glynn Turman's Steve is a skillfully subtle combination of pride and confusion. Dick A. Williams' dazzlingly evil pimp sweeps round the stage, almost a production unto himself, costumed like a Liberace with soul...
Born in France, Ricord was a pimp, dope peddler and Gestapo collaborator before he emigrated to Argentina and became naturalized. Then he moved to neighboring Paraguay and entered a syndicate that piped more than five tons of heroin into the U.S. Although he had never set foot in the U.S., he was convicted last year in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan. For a year and a half he had fought the U.S. extradition demand. But impoverished Paraguay, threatened with the loss of U.S. aid (currently $9,000,000), finally gave him up. The State Department insists there was nothing...
...often untruthful. The New Journalism, like the tabloids which preceded it, seizes upon scandal and intrigue with total lack of discrimination, not because it is desirable that the truth should out, but because scandal sells. New York magazine, the flagship of the New Journalism, seems to have profiled every pimp and prostitute in the City of New York at least once: it serves as the Daily News for the swingers...
...pimp," he guffawed across the newsroom. "You must have really smelled like vomit this morning." Powers was referring to the true confessions of a week ago in which I revealed a marked inclination to drink and regurgitate after Dartmouth losses...