Word: underworlders
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...Montmartre is not the South Side of Chicago. There is an aura of mellow stability which hangs over the neighborhood a sense of slow, peaceful decay that contrasts sharply with the frenetic growth and change in even the seediest sectors of American life. The Montmartre underworld is an established sector of society much like any other, a moral order governs almost everyone, and violence and change are rare...
...interested in the subject when the daughter of a close friend got involved in a messy divorce. After the couple separated, the estranged husband, Daniel Guy, a real estate operator in Nice, allegedly threatened his wife by hinting of his connections with the milieu, local argot for the Nice underworld. Greene tells a harrowing tale of purported assaults on Guy's wife and her father, the kidnaping of the couple's child by Guy, and threats, including a heavy hint by Guy that Greene might be in an auto accident if he kept on poking into his affairs...
...History. "I used to play in real bucket-of-blood-type rooms-a lot of trouble, shootings, stabbings. In most places, the club owners didn't make their money on music. They made it on gambling, prostitution, drugs and drinking. The underworld has been bringing drugs in and out of New Orleans for more than a hundred years. When I took heroin and stuff off and on through the '50s and into the late '60s, it wasn't something I did to feel something on a higher level. It helps play ers to put a wall...
...brother of Saudi King Fahd. But the couple, like Mohammad and Tarek, tended to party all night and sleep all day, and traveled in a convoy of three limousines, two security cars and a van. They also became chummy with Alvin Malnik, a Miami attorney said to have underworld connections. It was not until last February, however, that their image problem got serious. After a series of reports that they were mistreating their help, Dade County police raided the royal couple's condominium, searching for an "enslaved" servant. A melee ensued. Police say the princess screamed at them, shouting...
...know you, I know you," says the clownish John Styx, greeting an arrival at the gates of hell in Jacques Offenbach's comic opera Orpheus in the Underworld. "You do look familiar," replies the rubbery-faced Miss Public Opinion. He should; Styx is being played by Sid Caesar, 59, and Opinion by Imogene Coca, 73, stars from 1950 to 1954 of Your Show of Shows, a TV comedy classic. This week, in a rare appearance together, they will be reprising many of their best bits with some singing and much mugging in four performances of Orpheus at the Opera...