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...criminal specialties, from crude second-story work to deft embezzlement, none requires more patiently marshaled skills than those of consummate check forgery. The practitioner must combine the nerve of a sugar-futures trader, the painstaking craftsmanship of a calligrapher and the face-to-face charm of a successful encyclopedia salesman. He must win people's trust in order to clean them out. Where other criminals can hope to muster enough luck to succeed, the passer of bum checks relies on finesse and self-confidence honed to fine arts...
...obsessive hate, and murder became crucial themes. Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity, showing in the Orson Welles's film noir festival is in many ways a perfect example of the genre. Written by Raymond Chandler, it stars Barbara Stanwyck as the sexy but neglected housewife who seduces an insurance salesman into helping her murder her husband to collect the settlement. The languorous turns of the plot combine with the shadowy camera work to create a sordid, shabby world of moral decay...
...account piqued the interest of David Maysles and his brother Albert, two young film-makers who had produced Gimme Shelter and Salesman. They went to East Hampton in the fall of 1973 and spent five weeks filming Mrs. Edith Bouvier Beale, age 79, and her daughter Edie, 56, then edited the footage into Grey Gardens, a disturbing portrayal of their gothic relationship...
...Insurance Salesman Al Goldstein, then 33, started Screw magazine with a friend, Jim Buckley (whom he has since bought out for $500,000). Just as Hugh Hefner merchandised himself as the dapper self-assured playboy, Goldstein sold himself as the anti-hero of raw sex?a fat, articulate, self-deprecating perennial juvenile ("I am the furthest thing from a mature person") who overstuffed his plain newsprint magazine with tales of his sexual obsessions, failures with women and humiliating need to buy sex from prostitutes because of his overwhelming unattractiveness. Screw (circulation: 125,000) features raunchy humor, gross sex, porn-movie...
...caused a ripple. One recent night, as "Latasha," 18 and from St. Paul, bumped away in the buff as the Shelter Lounge's "body of the week," Owner Lynn Vale scanned the room and pointed out a local agent for a major life insurance company and the head salesman for a leading farm-equipment manufacturer. "You haven't got any bums in here," said Vale...