Word: whoring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...famous writer from that state who never used one word if he knew ten, and claimed in his brash youth to have registered in hotels in the area under names like "Benny Johnson," "Eddie Spenser" or "Al Tennyson." (He also described in one of his books "the most notorious whore-house in the state, located on a corner in my home-town where the public library now stands. I guess things have changed that much...
This is the one about the sailor and the whore, and is there anyone out there who still cares...
...unmarried whore has a son, who is part black and approximately twelve years old, just the age the sailor had reached when his own warmly remembered father died. It is immediately apparent that the sailor will begin to act as surrogate father. Indeed, it seems reasonable to expect that the movie will end with a shot of the sailor and the kid walking away from the camera, arms around each other, talking bravely about the future. Mark Rydell is not a director (The Fox, The Cowboys) to avert clichés or confound expectations. The only curiosity is what takes...
...whore (well acted by Marsha Mason) does not, at least, have a heart of gold. What she does have is a consuming pathology that the sailor finds irresistibly attractive. If furies of masochism lash at him, though, they are not gone into. Cinderella Liberty wants to be cute and sentimental and tries very hard to turn behavior like child desertion into the stuff of melancholy whimsy. All during this gruesome exercise there are some sharp supporting performances, notably by Allyn Ann McLerie as a snippy social worker and Allan Arbus and David Proval as a couple of Navymen. James Caan...
...life of a young girl, Vuong Thuy Kieu. She is beautiful, talented, virtuous-and just headstrong enough to make her interesting in spite of her other sterling qualities. To help pay her family's debts, Kieu sells herself into concubinage and is tricked into becoming a common whore in the house of a ruthless madam. Thereafter Kieu is ravaged, reviled and degraded by a host of villainous men and women. At last, after a rebel warrior who helped her obtain revenge is killed, Kieu throws herself into the Ch'ien-t'ang River. She is rescued...