Word: wiseguy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prominent in the milling cast of characters is a queen of Naples whose appetite for men is inextinguishable. Pretending to be interested in Italian political squabbles, Author Thayer really saves his most conspicuous talents for scenes that normally have their origin in lecherous fantasy. A drool trickles from the wiseguy, smoking-car prose, and each orgy is dropped with a reluctance that promises another bout in the next chapter. The promise is kept, to the point of bedroom boredom...
Last week Tenor Lanza, a onetime street-gang wiseguy who never did a day's work until he was 21, was working hard for his money. In a sweltering rubber suit, he puffed along California roads or sparred with his bodyguard-trainer, trying valiantly to sweat off the excess poundage that was costing an exasperated M-G-M many thousands of dollars for an eleven-day delay in the start of his next picture, Because You're Mine. For the moment, Lanza looked more like Mike Di Salle than Lieut. Pinkerton or any other operatic dream prince. Just...