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...Like Humphrey Bogart, Widmark started in movies as a thug and only gradually graduated to hero status. He was a murderously jealous cafe owner in Road House and a racist punk, spilling out vile epithets to noble young black doctor Sidney Poitier, in No Way Out (where he has a wonderfully sniveling final scene). Sam Fuller cast him as the pickpocket in the memorably lurid Pickup on South Street. Sometimes he was the lowlife who found someone even lower, as in Don't Bother to Knock, where he gets tangled with crazed babysitter Marilyn Monroe...
...providing more for the South Side than any other church, government or private institution. Rev. Luke Watson, another Good Friday speaker, credited Wright for guiding him away from life of crime, which started early with an absent father and a mother addicted to crack. "I was like that thug, the criminal next to Jesus," Rev. Watson said. "I thought, what's that guy doing here? He ain't done nothing. I'm the real sinner." Wright had taught him that God loves sinners, too. "I learned that I wasn't born bad," and then he spoke on the passage...
...chief, first in Ukraine and then in Russia, the beefy Vitaly Fedorchuk was known as a thug. Thought to be behind kidnappings and murders as the "Butcher of Ukraine," he later persecuted Russians who had too much contact with foreigners before finally becoming highly visible as the Soviet Union's top cop in the '80s. His efforts at first seemed to foreshadow perestroika-like reforms: he exposed official corruption and condemned drunkenness. But Western analysts called his heavy-handed tactics "neo-Stalinist." In the late '80s Mikhail Gorbachev sidelined him. Fedorchuk...
...tracks “Byrd Gang Money” and “Stay Ballin’.” The chorus of “Love Me No More” is endearingly strained, providing one of the few moments of what feels like true Harlem thug desperation. Jones even manages to change up his style a bit with the track “Lookin’ At The Game,” which features an airy, monotone, female-voiced chorus and an exceptional record-scratching-based beat. With tracks like these, there is no denying that...
...Atittude Adjuster” shines when it takes command of both “Message In A Bottle” and “Shape Of My Heart,” placing these songs of anguish and introspection firmly and successfully in “Thug Life” territory. Nine solo albums deep, Pastor Troy has finally turned his high-pitched battle cry of a voice from a gimmick into an asset. “UH-HUH!” ad-libs aside (and who could imagine P-Troy without those?), these raps are musically and rhythmically sound, delivered...