Word: underworld
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...also observed with L.A. in the 40s My four L.A. Quarter books cover L.A. from 1947 to 1959. Now, in my Underworld USA trilogy, I'm moving out of the era of my childhood, my era of dimly-recalled events, into the era of my cognizance...
...Steve Tisch. "It sounds funny saying it, but Guy is a guy's guy." If he had given in to other impulses, he could have been, as other wise guys say, a made man. "I left school at 15," Ritchie says, "and got distracted by the ways of the underworld." He was arrested for (but not charged with) robbery after a police search of his home yielded TVs, VCRs and stereos with no serial numbers. Ultimately Ritchie determined that the outlaw life was "not a sensible vocation for me. I felt the only profit I could take from that world...
...debauchery at the Kong escalated out of control, so did the rumor mill. The Kong was alleged to house a gambling hall, a smuggling ring and a brothel. All one had to do was order "three egg rolls," and the doors to the underworld would swing open. Where precisely did this vast criminal empire reside? Up the dark stairs, behind the closed door of the unused third floor. Paul recounts, "People used to ask my father what was on the third floor. He'd tell them it was storage. No one would believe him. They'd say, 'Come...
...released from her contract with MCA last year, she didn't fret--she went online. Her engaging new CD, Jonatha Brooke Live, is available for mail-order purchase exclusively at Brooke's website www.jonathabrooke.com) which also features audio clips of her work. On Feb. 5, when the electronica group Underworld offered a free, full-length MP3 file of a track from its forthcoming CD, its Web page received 400,000 hits in one day--an impressive showing for an only modestly famous musical act. And last year the Artist Formerly Known as Prince, who went through an acrimonious divorce from...
...word about the plot and the criminals. I can't say I know what would be naturalistic or socially real in the underworld, and maybe it's just that all the baddies learn from TV these days anyway (see James Wood's vague gestures toward 70's Scorsese things in Another Day In Paradise). But, offering to help Liam pay a debt to the local hooligan head honcho, Joe does actually get to deliver A Package, ostensibly just driving a car back and forth, and, yes, Joe is not allowed to pull out of the deal once...