Word: pimping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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EARTH! flashes a neon sign on a certain street corner at Place Pigalle. On the sidewalk, streetwalkers nudge potential customers, and if business is slow or feet begin to hurt, they drop into a tiny cremerie for a cognac or an ice cream or a payoff to a pimp. Behind the bar is Odette...
...book itself deals principally with the sex lives of two couples--film director Charles Francis Eitel and his bed-mate Elena Esposito; and movie star Lulu Meyers and her lover Sergius O'Shaugnessy, the narrator of the book. But interwoven into the story are Marion Faye--a pimp at 21; a homosexual movie actor; and a number of other perverted characters. In Mailer's moral code, however, these latter characters are destroyed, for only those who can find companions of the opposite sex are favored by the author...
...reason, perhaps, - is that the lovers are no longer the real story, but merely the required treacle in a seamy-side-of-Paris musical. The rest of Seventh Heaven is almost all tabasco - streets of Paris and streetwalkers and street dances, apaches and sailors, madams and midinettes, and a pimp who stops a bullet...
...followed on the stand by four other call girls and one erstwhile madam, most of them reluctant to repeat their stories in public. The most unusual witness, however, was Richard Short, an ex-convict, thief, he-doxy and convicted pimp. Short once went to Jelke, he said, to get some customers for his fourth wife, Prostitute Pat Thompson. Mickey helpfully supplied the telephone number of one Ben Lewis, an old friend of Pat Ward's. "Mickey told us Lewis was a high roller, likely to go to $500 or more if a girl treated him right...
...Walking-Around Money. Short told how he had helped Mickey think of a new name for Marguerite Cordova, a Puerto Rican hat-check girl who wanted Mickey to be her pimp. They decided on "Marie Corday," since Cordova "sounded too Spanish for the upper crust." Pat Thompson paid all his household bills, Short explained, and gave him $300 a week "walking-around money." Didn't that amount to male prostitution? asked Assistant District Attorney Anthony Liebler. "Well," snorted Short, "I'm a pretty good cook...