Word: shyster
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...amiable, lovesick sheep in second lieutenant's clothing named Guido di Maggio ("Hey, di Maggio, let's play some ball"); di Mag's girl, a progressive schoolteacher who starts the whole town talking with her sex talks to second graders; a real-estate shyster who turns swampland into pay dirt by renaming it "Powderhorn Hill"; a toothsome teen-age tidbit named Comfort Goodpasture whose Puritan blood is brought to a boil by a guitar-strumming Army corporal from Altus, Okla...
...That Blonde? A friend got her the big break: a chance to play the shyster's house pet in John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle. In this tidbit part, she was an instant sensation. Letters came in by the sackful. All asked the same question: "Who's that blonde?" Fox grabbed her back for $500 a week, raised her to $750 a week. She was on her way to the top-when suddenly the bottom fell...
...Gilded Ghetto." When Margie is not coping with her dilemma, she is occupied with shyster theatrical producers, a pedestrian suitor named Dr. Shapiro, and the diehard devotion of little Wally Wronken. A character who warms Marjorie's heart, and the reader's, is her uncle, Samson-Aaron, a robustious clown, a seam-splitting glutton, and a lovable dead-beat ("But a nickel, Modgerie, a nickel I always had, to buy you a Hershey bar ven I came to this house"). In his simple way, he shows Marjorie how close she really is to the faith she once brashly...
...millionaire) for $300,000 on grounds that disfiguring injuries have ruined her daughter's budding career as a beauty queen and TV star. But two unexpected witnesses make depositions to set things right. Author Pratt lays on the human gore and displays a nice nose for human greed-shyster lawyers, crooked photographers and assorted vultures circling a big cash settlement. Probably the most absorbing safety lecture since J.C. Furnas'-And Sudden Death...
...supporting cast is uniformly competent, with Herbert Lom turning in a superlative bit as a Peter Lorretype Balkan shyster who smuggles Fairbanks out of the country...