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...East Village and talked about her bizarre introduction to the oldest profession. "I was grabbed in a store by this guy and this chick who said they were taking me for a ride," she said offhandedly. "They said they wanted me to meet a friend. He was a pimp. They sold me to him for $100. He locked me up in this hotel room and ran in cheap tricks -$10. Old white guys, Chinamen, foreigners. I got away after a week, but he followed me and gave me a line I fell for, so I went back with...
Fidel Castro was less than complimentary when Houari Boumedienne replaced Ahmed Ben Bella as leader of revolutionary Algeria seven years ago. "A pimp," was the Cuban Premier's unbowdlerized estimate of Boumedienne. "A reactionary gorilla." Last week, as Castro visited Algeria in the course of a two-month hegira through Africa and the East bloc, Boumedienne had become "a great strategist" and Algeria under his rule was "a just society...
Mouchette Harvard Epworth Church. 7, April 13, $1. Machorka - Muff With Not Reconcile, The Bridegroom and The Comedienne and The Pimp. 7, April 16. Free, Une Femme Douce by Robert Bresson. 7, April 20. Tauw by Ousmane Sembene with Walkover by Jerzy Skolimowski. 7, April...
...uncle, who all live under the same roof. Ruth is enigmatically cool but she crosses and recrosses her legs, and her role as the sexual aggressor is established in one line of dialogue over a glass of water. "If you take the glass," she says to Teddy's pimp brother, "I'll take you." When the pimp suggests that she become a part-time professional prostitute and "mother" the family, she strikes a crafty financial bargain and accedes. Only the father is struck by a final spasm of dread: "She'll use us, she'll make...
...Frank Sinatra, who was widely believed to be the model for Puzo's character of Johnny Fontane, the singer who is backed by the Mob. Sinatra, writes Puzo, never even looked up from his plate, but "started to shout abuse . . . The worst thing he called me was a pimp, which rather flattered me. But what hurt was that there he was, a northern Italian, threatening me, a southern Italian, with physical violence. That was roughly equivalent to Einstein pulling a knife on Al Capone...