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...faced a man with a revolver who was threatening to blow Ramos' brains out because he had thrown a snowball. "By then," he says, "I knew that if you're no good in school or in sports, there's nothing left to do around here but pimp, hustle dope, act in porno movies and, yeah, steal. Everybody's gotta live...
When convicted pimp Sterling Godfrey walked out of the federal prison in Atlanta in 1977, after serving nearly five years of a maximum 15-year term, he still owed his $35,000 fine. But Godfrey said he was short of cash, so the U.S. Attorney's Ofiice in the capital obligingly allowed him to pay exactly $10 a month, thus giving him almost three centuries to pay his debt to society. Godfrey fell behind that undemanding schedule, even though the FBI discovered that he had re-established a lucrative prostitution business, opened a bicycle shop and acquired a Cadillac...
...time machine to a different tonality of mood, one has only to listen to Moritat (Ballad of Mack the Knife). Datelined 1928, here is the authentic shiver of Nazi gangsterism stalking the streets of doom. All the great numbers follow - Alabama-Song, Surabaya Johnny, Bilbao Song, Ballad of the Pimp and the Whore. In all these songs, a caustic social vision is wedded to a winningly expansive lyricism. This Cabaret is a feast for Broadway...
Saying Easterling "made his money as a pimp," Thomas J. Mundy Jr., Suffolk Country assistant district attorney, requested the maximum punishment during his final argument yesterday. The prosecutor said, "He (Easterling) is anything but remorseful" about the crime he committed...
...mother (Madeleine Thornton-Sherwood) turns up to excoriate her. A prison guard (Bob Burrus) has quit his job and accompanied Arlene to her Louisville flat, with the lecherous expectation of shacking up with her. He is an odd mixture of paternal solicitude and cruel menace. Her ex-lover and pimp (Leo Burmester) shows up. A smarmy swaggerer in an orange suit, he proposes to take her off to the rich mean streets of New York...