Word: shyster
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...Frank are hired by a limp-wristed shyster to locate his girl friend. "A switch-hitting sweet lips?" Boggs inquires skeptically, but he doesn't press the matter. He and Hickey need the $200 a day. The investigation becomes progressively messier, involving counterfeiters, fences, torpedoes and other citizens of the Southern California underworld...
...actors do little to enliven the improbable but predictable proceedings. Peter Yates keeps the general energy level so low that not even the masterly Zero Mostel, as a shyster lawyer, can lend any perceptible zest...
...with lifelike eyelashes and wrinkles on his skin, or the marvel of transparent ghosts dancing around a huge hall, to the vulgar ride through darkest Africa, with your guide shooting at rhinos, hippos, and elephants. One can agree with John Ciardi's estimation of the place is seeing the "shyster in the bacroom of illusion, diluting his witches brew with tapwater, while all his gnomes worked frantically to design gaudier and gaudier designs for the mess." Or one an simply realize that all this does cost to great deal, 128 million roughly, pay the fee, and allow images and emotions...
...Hale Boggs [April 19] but rather what is bugging him. If he had a clear conscience he would not be bothered. If someone taps my phone, he will soon get annoyed at the uninteresting listening. Anyone who has lived with a rural party line can live with bugging. Only shyster lawyers and their clients need beat their breasts about wiretaps. The rest of us simple folks have little to worry about...
...PRODUCERS. Two shyster impresarios (Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder) set out to make a killing on Broadway in this first film by Comedian-Writer Mel Brooks, which offers, albeit fitfully, some of the best cinema comedy in years...