Word: stripper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contempt that interferes with the camera's vision elsewhere. Especially memorable is an unprintable gesture one disappointed fan makes towards the victor of a match--a gesture I've never seen before in a film. By contrast to the wrestling scene, a carefully photographed sequence showing a night club stripper is spoiled by editorializing; when the camera turns angrily and unfairly on the audience, its moral rage seems totally unjustified...
Violations & Acquittals. Nonetheless, his legend rests on his occasional histrionic flashes. He broke bones in both hands thumping on the counsel table or the jury-box railing. Once, demonstrating a murder scene, he lay flat on the courtroom floor and continued his oration from that position. When he defended Stripper Lili St. Cyr on an indecent-exposure charge, he concealed his own paunchy frame in the allegedly diaphanous towel that had covered her on the night in question, so convulsing the jury that the case was laughed out of court. In his desk drawer he kept Lili's black...
COLD WIND IN AUGUST. With less daring, more training and a bit more money. Director Alexander Singer composed a melancholy essay on love as a girl grows older. Lola Albright is both touching and depressing as an aging stripper who robs the cradle to cheat the rocking chair...
...late William ("Action") Jackson, a 300-lb. "juice man" (a collector of loans for gangland usurers known as "juice dealers"), who was tortured to death and stuffed into the trunk of his Cadillac last August. Testa, 48, had also been romancing an 18-year-old, green-eyed stripper who moonlighted as a police informer, picked up her lowdown by keeping her ears open as she took her clothes off at command performances before mobmen in the Cicero and Franklin Park motels...
...film still tells essentially the same story: Chinese girl (Miyoshi Umeki), a "picture bride" from Hong Kong, meets Chinese-American boy (James Shigeta). But boy loves Chinese-American girl (Nancy Kwan), a nightspot stripper who wants to cover her nakedness with greenbacks. In the end, true love triumphs in a large, vulgar Chinese wedding...