Word: sleazoid
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...ladies and opera go together, but rarely has so much weight been thrown around onstage as in Jerry Springer--The Opera. The musical version of the sleazoid TV talk show is filled with big people with big hair wailing about their big problems. A portly fellow with a luminous tenor confesses that he is cheating on his wife with a transsexual. A bridegroom-to-be strips off his clothes to reveal a diaper fetish. A sluttish young woman battles with her mother over her aspiration to become a pole dancer. Running commentary is provided by a studio audience...
...those defending the church is the imperious noblewoman Macarena Bruner, whose Carmen-like beauty disturbs the celibate priest. She's the estranged wife of a banker who faces financial ruin if a sneaky real estate deal that would raze Our Lady falls through. Lurking on the sidelines are a sleazoid journalist with a bent for blackmail, and Seville's worldly archbishop, whose diocese will profit if the church is destroyed...
...plans are also afoot at Elizabeth's youngest son's movie-making enterprise, Ardent Productions. Prince Edward's company has signed a first-look deal with Corbin Bernsen, mainly known as the sleazoid attorney in L.A. Law. This deal, however, is for Bernsen's hitherto unheralded writing output. The Prince gets first refusal on Bernsen's screenplays...
...heart of its intricacy, the film basically follows the misfortunes of three Los Angeles cops as they trace the links among the murder of a corrupt colleague, a pioneer of sleazoid celebrity journalism (Danny DeVito, who brings huge comic relish to the role), a shadowy social climber (David Straithairn), who is enamored of underworld glamour, a call girl (an entrancing Kim Basinger) working for a service whose employees are obliged to imitate movie stars (she's the Veronica Lake look-alike), and, eventually, major players in the Los Angeles law-enforcement hierarchy...
...possesses a gift for lowlife dialogue, a thorough knowledge of underworld mores and a mastery of high-tension narrative. What he does not have is a gift for whimsy, and that, alas, is the chief ingredient of Maximum Bob (Delacorte; 295 pages; $20). The title character is a sleazoid Florida judge who likes to hit on lady cops and hand out heavy sentences. Someone tries to ice Maximum Bob with a unique weapon: a hungry alligator. There is a long enemies list, including Leanne, the judge's loony wife; Dale Crowe, the latest victim of his warped justice; Dale...