Word: shyster
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What if all the great people of this world...are simply the sort of crude, cynical shyster businessmen and degenerate hustlers that you find on Broadway, the New Jersey shingle business or out on the road pushing baby pictures...What if we get behind the scenes in the White House or St. Patrick's or the Vatican at Rome, we were to find precisely the same mixture of crass exploitation and petty cunning that you find when you walk into a theatrical agent's office in the Brill Building or 1590 Broadway...
...English Girls. directed by Francois Truffaut. Here he reverses the sexes of his Jules et Jim trio--two sisters fall for the same shyster. It is absolutely disappointing, one of the few movies ever that I have walked out on. Harvard Square 4:10, 7:55. --E.A.F...
...English Girls. directed by Francois Truffaut. Here he reverses the sexes of his Jules et Jim trio--two sisters fall for the same shyster. It is absolutely disappointing, one of the few movies ever that I have walked out on. Harvard Square 4:10, 7:55. E.A.F...
...other country in the world has learned to fear and despise. Out Barbie doll President, with his Barbie doll wife and his box-full of Barbie doll children is also America's answer to the monstrous Mr. Hyde. He speaks for the Werewolf in us: the bully, the predatory shyster who turns into something unspeakable, full of claws and bleeding string-warts, on nights when the moon comes too close...
...seems that Camille has been jailed for committing only one murder, of Arthur, a philosophically inclined exterminator and the only man throughout who genuinely loves her. (Her three other encounters -- Clovis, Sam Golden, and Murene, a shyster -- are strictly gents after a nice piece of ass). They make a suicide pact, planning to jump off a church tower. Typically, Camille reneges. The authorities figure Arthur was pushed. The last half-hour clears her, and then inexplicably jumps to her stardom, with the movie's final twist. Not only does this sequence reveal Truffaut's television influences, but it establishes...