That dichotomy appeals to Mr. Kane, who has always had a taste for making the safe seem seamy, and the seamy seem safe.
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NEW ORLEANS — As he navigates a seamy swirl of scandals, Gov.
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Trump has modernized the seamy tactics of McCarthy, Nixon and Agnew.
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Stories continue to pop up on the seamy operations of the Clinton Foundation.
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Even in the seamy world of post-Soviet corruption, Plahotniuc has distinguished himself.
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A few unsubtle threats involving the Clintons' seamy past was all it took.
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Also performing are the authentic '90s curios Coolio and the appealingly seamy Color Me Badd.
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But the seamy underbelly of The Jetsons doesn't end with grim survival-of-the-fittest implications.
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The general thesis of the book is essentially sound, if heavily weighted on the seamy side.
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And it went down on the very same day that Paul Manafort — his former associate in a seamy lobbying firm with rancid dictators as clients, and then later his pal in the seamy campaign of Donald Trump — was also in federal court on charges related to the Mueller probe.
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Despite seamy, well-chosen locations, Mr. Gooding is way too heavy-handed in his scoring and visual choices.
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For all its splendor, the Chishi Bridge, in Hunan Province, exemplifies the seamy underside of China's infrastructure boom.
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However, he really does seem to spend most of his personal time building a mountain of stupid, seamy scandals.
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But so is Bridges' seamy wisdom and deep-seated desire to be useful and active, even with forced retirement looming.
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A last-minute switch was arranged to a space around the corner, still very much in the seamy, unseemly vein.
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As a reporter determined to strip Wall Street to its seamy underbelly, Teresa Avia Lim never conveys anything like rabid ambition.
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Aside from his legal troubles, there have been allegations over the years that Roman lured Sharon into a seamy Hollywood scene.
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The best detective fiction, of course, gestures toward the seamy realities of power, lust and greed that lie underneath the hectic surface.
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At a seamy pub, she meets an actor more than twice her age, and they begin an emotionally wary, sexually adventurous relationship.
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The Bee segment came a few weeks after NPR tracked down Coler at his home and asked him more about this seamy business.
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There's no better way to peer into the seamy underbelly of bureaucracy than by looking at how people in power waste their time.
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The world that Mr. Trump inhabits is today's Other America, the seamy, blustering, hustling and huckstering underside of our fabled brightness and optimism.
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But she wanted to combine them with more offbeat, seamy and overshadowed city stories when she founded Renegade Stl tours six years ago.
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So nitrous oxide went from philosophical experiments, to the seamy world of carnivals and fairgrounds, and then it was accepted as a great medical breakthrough.
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The whole point of these stories about the seamy underside of suburbia is subversive social critique — something The Girl on the Train never really musters.
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Marrying fact and fiction, Jane Goldman's seamy screenplay is wildly overstuffed; but the director, Juan Carlos Medina, gives the music hall scenes a rowdy authenticity.
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You can buy a bong at gas stations across America, but depending on where you live, buying pot is a more seamy experience, involving A Guy.
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It had its seamy underside with the Melgen girlfriends, but it was kind of a bloodless case once Walls cut all the sex out of it.
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Now her story — and the challenge it offers to the notion that Washington somehow transcended the seamy reality of slaveholding — is having its fullest airing yet.
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Violence and chaos break loose in the not coincidentally named town of Salem after a data hack exposes the seamy texts, photos and secrets of the residents.
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Long before movies like "The Wolf of Wall Street" or "The Big Short" were popular fare, Mr. Byron was revealing the seamy underside of the investing game.
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The thefts have proliferated along with the rise in prices for the most coveted items, the seamy side of the $1 billion market for rare sports collectibles.
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"GLOW" certainly zeroes in on the period, providing another look at the seamy side of showbiz, tilted here more toward industrial warehouses and rundown apartments than red carpets.
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"The bureau was very busy chasing presidential secrets, most of them pretty seamy," said Michael Oreskes, the chief from 1997 to 2000, during President Bill Clinton's second term.
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"This is a window into the shadowy, seamy side of politics, where powerful insiders self-deal," said Peter Franchot, the state comptroller, who has called for an independent audit.
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The rulings come more than eight months after the three men were resoundingly convicted in two trials that unveiled a seamy culture of illicit payments and influence peddling in Albany.
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Critic score: 20%Audience score: 47%Netflix description: "When his girlfriend vanishes, a mute man ventures into a near-future Berlin's seamy underworld, where his actions speak louder than words."
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What could be more cleansing, after literary immersion in the seamy and squalid arena of robber-baron America, than an adventure story about an idyllic boyhood on the Mississippi River?
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"Billions" is a brutal, seamy world of leverage, where "What have you done for me lately?" is the prevailing mantra and squeezing favors out of people is a practiced art.
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And here's the latest in the increasingly seamy trial of Paul Manafort, where defense lawyers accused a longtime Manafort deputy, Rick Gates, of having four extramarital affairs and lying about them.
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The Silver trial, along with the corruption trial of the former State Senate majority leader, Dean G. Skelos, and his son, Adam, exposed Albany's seamy culture of secrecy and influence peddling.
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Ninety-five percent of the time spent by newspapers and television networks covering this seamy story do a disservice to the profession and insult the intelligence of their viewers and readers.
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Mr. Cohn eventually slipped from his perch of dark allure and became embroiled in an embezzlement scandal and the seamy case of a death connected to a mysterious fire on a yacht.
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Through his long association with Capa, who became a colleague and mentor, and his years at the International Center of Photography in New York, Karia's dedication to exposing India's seamy side intensified.
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The seamy, sordid aspects of the Dahlia murder -- and the implications about what Hodel did, and might have done, in the nearly two decades after it -- provide a creepy undercurrent to the proceedings.
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Perhaps there is a tacit nostalgia play in this; perhaps today's New Yorkers dripping with sweat on wi-fi-enabled subway platforms will long for the crackling, seamy city of 40 years ago.
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Also, possibly former Cincinnati Reds star Pete Rose's ongoing attempt to apologize for his seamy past by selling balls on which he'd written "I'm sorry I bet on baseball" for $300 and up.
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On Saturday, A&E plunges into the seamy story with "The Killing Season," an eight-episode examination that merely begins on Gilgo Beach, where the bodies of prostitutes began turning up in 2010.
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He previously explored its facets in pieces like "The Dharma at Big Sur," which evokes the Pacific Coast of Jack Kerouac, and "City Noir," which suggests the seamy Los Angeles of a Philip Marlowe.
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There is a seamy element to playing politics when it comes to crises of national import – and I don't have sympathy when someone cries, "Politics!" while there's plenty of blame and responsibility to go around.
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This fairly optimistic point of view is surprising, as Baudelaire had attempted suicide by that time, in 1845, and lived perilously, moving from odious hotel to hotel in the seamy sides of Paris to escape creditors.
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Even before the sex scandal in 2014, the 59-year-old Mr. Morrissey, who has since married the young woman, Myrna Pride, now aged 20, and had two children with her, had amassed a long, seamy record.
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When conservatives chose Donald Trump in 2016, they were rejecting the seamy, swampy insider politics that have dominated D.C. for far too long and opting instead for an outsider and an innovator who would shake things up.
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Yet unlike that series, it's adept at reining in its excesses, and has the additional advantage of separately focusing on the unique insecurities associated with show business, albeit from the seamy, absurd perspective of its outermost fringe.
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There's more than the usual thirst, too, in this current moment for stories that reveal the seamy underbelly of the rich and powerful—the horrors late capitalism can wreak even on its beneficiaries are very much in vogue.
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And the plasticized elegance of Supriya Lele, a new Royal College of Art graduate, who mined her Anglo-Indian heritage for a collection that featured latex and gaffer tape, but whose overall effect was serene rather than seamy.
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The real question to ask about this story is what exactly the Russians were doing to expose the seamy side of American politics that wasn't already being done by Republican and Democratic operatives, not to mention the presidential candidates?
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Trump hurts America when he falsely attacks the patriotism of black players in the NFL, a seamy tactic that has been reportedly embraced by the Russian cyberwar attack against America that has turned its bigoted aggression against the NFL.
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Lobbying for the tainted: Washington lobbyists have carved out a lucrative if seamy niche representing clients that face U.S. penalties, including the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and lobbyists with ties to President Trump have especially benefited.
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The relentless suspense of this seamy tale of adultery and murder among the Paris working class fell victim to Mr. Botstein's arid, inflexible conducting of his American Symphony Orchestra, leaving Puccini's obsessive rhythms and hypnotically repeated motifs sounding merely monotonous.
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This seamy affair raises a second issue of profound importance, which is the tendency of Trump to insult and humiliate some who work for him, while others who work for him and some GOP allies in Congress act like shameless sycophants.
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He charged that Democrats were conducting a "grotesque and coordinated character assassination" because of their anger about President Trump's ascent and their desire for revenge after his own seamy work helping Ken Starr in his pervy pursuit of Bill Clinton.
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While the cliche of the drunken sailor—staggering on the docks after a night of hell-raising in some seamy fleshpot—is deeply ingrained in the national subconscious, it bears mentioning that rum was not always the Naval drink of choice.
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But less than a month before the election, Mr. Gantz found himself fielding seamy-sounding questions late Friday about whether he had committed adultery, opened himself up to possible extortion or sandbagged his political allies to advance his own career.
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If you're someone who has succumbed to reactionary politics online, you'll see in Bonnell a kindred spirit—a college dropout from Nebraska who scoffs at political civility, revels in seamy, self-referential humor, and will talk openly about literally anything.
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Those not working for a corporation live in the Red Zone, a seamy place where hardship and ruthlessness prevail, because that too is a rule: Resistance to the corporate overlords must arise from the hardscrabble heroes of the lawless badlands.
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"Folk horror postulates, celebrates, and explores all the distinctly seamy, dreadful, and macabre elements of the folk phenomenon," explained John Revill, a folk horror fan who was introduced to the subgenre while studying film history at Manchester University in England.
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Playing her famous line in Beijing in 1995 that "women's rights are human rights," it features pictures of the Clintons with "friends" who have been ensnared in seamy scandals — Bill Cosby and Anthony Weiner, the husband of Hillary's close aide Huma Abedin.
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The opening statements marked the start of an unusual trial that, as well as placing two longtime federal law enforcement employees in unfamiliar roles as defendants, could reveal seamy activities at the club, which prosecutors have said included prostitution and drug use.
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The decision to delay the award marked an extraordinary and seamy public reckoning for a 232-year-old cultural organization that has long been admired as one of the world's most prestigious scholarly bodies — but also criticized as secretive, arbitrary and patriarchal.
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Freya made her debut as a schoolgirl in Quinn's previous novel, "Curtain Call," a murder mystery set in London's seamy 1930s theater world, which starred her father, Stephen Wyley, and featured a crusty, hard-drinking drama critic, Jimmy Erskine (based on James Agate).
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This is small-d democratic politics doing its slightly seamy but ultimately effective transactional work: heterogeneous interests and opposing political parties, negotiating to forge a compromise in which nobody gets everything they want, but everyone gets something, and mutual goals are advanced.
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In flashback, we meet a couple of goons, played with seamy persuasion by T. Ryder Smith and Douglas Hodge, who call themselves psychologists and are hired by the C.I.A. to make life hell—a repetitive hell—for various suspects in the war on terror.
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Bourdain rose to prominence in the early 2000s as the author of Kitchen Confidential, an autobiographical tell-all of the restaurant industry that exposed its seamy underbelly (drugs, sex, parasitic swordfish worms) and inaugurated a wider cultural fascination with the world of professional cookery.
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The trial was unusual in several respects, hinting at seamy activities at the strip club and placing two experienced federal law enforcement employees in unfamiliar roles as defendants Mr. Glover worked for the drug agency since 1998, tracking cellphone use as a telecommunications specialist, among other things.
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He has the great leadership skills, and the very popular high ground on leading issues, to carry the fight to the country to end the abuses of congressional Republicans during the Trump presidency, as Alabama voters ended the seamy saga of Roy Moore's ill-fated campaign for the Senate.
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BuzzFeed's irresponsible decision to publish a seamy and wholly unsubstantiated research dossier about Mr. Trump by a former British spy gave him the opportunity to attack not only BuzzFeed but also CNN, which had reported accurately about the document's existence but, properly, had declined to reveal its unverified contents.
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On Saturday, Ferrara, who will appear at several screenings, will be present for a post-movie discussion of "King of New York" (also showing on May 19) with the filmmakers Josh and Benny Safdie — perhaps his closest contemporary heirs when it comes to using the city as a seamy backdrop.
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But in the process of untangling the skein of lies, malfeasance and coverups that defined the scandal, Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) and Carl Bernstein (Dustin Hoffman) wind up exposing the seamy underside of partisan realpolitik, and underline the crucial role of a free press in holding leaders accountable.
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A self-effacing, good-natured, vivacious Texan who professed to be awed by celebrities, Ms. Smith was the antithesis of the brutal columnist J. J. Hunsecker in Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman's screenplay for "Sweet Smell of Success," which portrayed sinister power games in a seamy world of press agents and nightclubs.
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As much as he had a penchant for cheap jokes (corpses juxtaposed with ironic signs) and maudlin titles ("I Cried When I Took This Picture"), he also captured the full range of human expression, documenting the seamy side of a world-class city, sticking around after a tragedy to photograph the onlookers.
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It was something of a shock to learn that the supposedly dignified independent counsel — who was once on a shortlist for the Supreme Court — had delivered a 445-page bodice ripper, a trite story of an office affair in all its seamy particulars, told with such sanctimony that it was redolent of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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Here and there, we get glimpses of seamy subcultures and a few lively performances, especially from the panther-like Olivia Wilde, as Richie's wife, Devon, a former Warhol muse, and the amazing Juno Temple, as the aspiring A. & R. chick, Jamie, a drug-dealing Peggy Olson with her own golden ear and brass balls.
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Think about how extraordinary, unprecedented and wonderfully American it is that shortly after the president's dark and seamy words, leaders of the American military and then leaders of American business felt a moral and patriotic duty to become the check and balance against racism and bigotry that our country desperately needs at this moment in our history.
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As much as gun control, immigration, the sweeping tax overhaul and other issues are mobilizing voters on the left and the right, the seamy sex allegations and Mr. Trump's erratic style could end up alienating crucial blocs of suburban voters and politically moderate women who might be drawn to some Republican policies but find the president's purported sex antics to be reprehensible.
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The alleged Stormy Daniels affair is playing like a Gennifer Flowers re-run from the Bill ClintonWilliam (Bill) Jefferson Clinton2628 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 28503 Buckingham Palace: Any suggestion Prince Andrew was involved in Epstein scandal 'abhorrent' The magic of majority rule in elections MORE era in which a seamy (and steamy) past comes back to haunt a sitting president.
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In 2015, two extraordinary federal corruption trials in New York led to the convictions and resignations of the state's two most powerful legislative leaders in Albany and exposed long-hidden bribery connections to Mr. Litwin's empire, laying bare a seamy world of payoffs, political favors and legislation that reaped staggering profits and savings for the real estate industry, and for Glenwood Management in particular.
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These days, Mr. Dando has a lot of time to read and think, and over breakfast, the former prep school student who managed four Fs and one D-, he said, in his one semester at Skidmore College found his thoughts dashing between the early American Calvinists, the 1960s cult known as the Lyman family, the Scottish comedian Billy Connolly, the intellectual legacy of William James and the seamy underside of the '70s soft rock scene.
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"A Walk on the Seamy Side In a Screenwriter's Hollywood." New York Times. November 1, 1993.Rich, Frank.
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The plot was described as a science fiction anthology series set in a futuristic city with a seamy side. Each episode is introduced by Raven, a nightclub hostess who also makes brief appearances in the tales.
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Montreal Gazette, February 8, 2007. The novel was based on her own experience living and working in Tokyo as an English teacher."Don't wear room shoes to walk on the seamy side". Victoria Times-Colonist, July 30, 2006.
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Sonoratown was noted in the 1880s and 1890s as an "eyesore""Municipal Wants," Los Angeles Herald, April 13, 1882, image 2 with "tumble-down adobes""Good- bye, 'Sonoratown,'" Los Angeles Times, June 5, 1887, image 4 and "crumbling walls.""Saunterer," Los Angeles Times, April 6, 1890, image 12 It had "unmistakable signs of decay"Marian de Crequy, "The Seamy Side of Los Angeles," The Herald, July 25, 1895, image 1 and more than once was denominated as "the seamy side" of Los Angeles."Seamy Side of the City," The Herald, July 30, 1895, image 1 One of the problems in the city's enforcement of building standards was the lack of adequate title records for all properties."Municipal Wants," Los Angeles Herald, April 13, 1882, image 2 > The Mexican laws of inheritance are very complicated; and of the heirs of an > estate, some might be in Sonora, or Chihuahua or Sinaloa.
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His was a world of dark tones and darker people, many of them social rejects. He often spoke of the seamy side, the world of puss and blood. Each of his works was an act of rebellion against accepted elitist social mores and codes.
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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg expressed his dissatisfaction with the film being made about him and noted that much of the film's plot was not factual. The script was leaked online in July 2009.Harlow, John (2010-05-16). "Movie depicts seamy life of Facebook boss". Timesonline.co.uk.
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In 1998 Ardent Productions produced a made-for- television film version of the book in association with Yorkshire Television. It was broadcast on ITV in Britain, and on A&E; in the United States. The film departed slightly from the novel, dwelling less on seamy motives, and having a slightly different ending.
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By 1902, she was working as a school administrator. In 1920, Dorsey became the first female superintendent of Los Angeles City Schools. She would serve in the capacity until her retirement in 1929. In 1937 she spoke to the prohibitionist Women's Law Observance Association against literature about "the seamy things of life".
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The setting of "LaBrava" is South Beach, Florida. Maurice Zola wistfully recalls the heyday of the 1930s and 1940s when the area had a cachet with movie stars. By the 1980s the area had fallen into disrepair and drug activity was rife. Movies such as "Scarface" and T.V. series such as "Miami Vice" showed this seamy side of South Beach.
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Private detective Christopher Adams chases a precious antique jade lion through the Mexican cafes, auto courts, and the seamy side of Los Angeles. Adams has a meeting scheduled with a mystery man named Gomez, who is killed. Alice Ashley, a woman he encounters in a bar, then picks Adams' pocket, stealing his wallet. When he tracks her down, he finds Alice stabbed to death.
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Her 2010 book, Beautiful For Ever describes the growth of the Victorian cosmetics industry and tells the story of Madame Rachel who found both fame and infamy peddling products which claimed almost magical powers of "restoration and preservation". According to the Daily Mail, 'Rappaport handles her scandalous Victorian melodrama with energy and aplomb, and produces a richly entertaining portrait of the seamy side of 19th century society'.
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The club was formed in 1950 as a result of the popular street leagues that were running at the time. The founder members met in Dougan's Loft, Navan Street, Armagh. They included Charlie McQuade, Felix McStravick, Sam Johnson, Gene McStravick, Eugene McKenna, Gerry Cush and the legendary Ulster footballer Big Jim McCullagh, who became the Pearse Ógs' inaugural chairman. The club's name was suggested by Seamy Trainor.
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Retrieved May 20, 2020. She was portrayed joining a traveling theatrical company, convinced that the life of a performer is filled with only thrills and glamor. Soon, however, she experiences the unappealing, "seamy" side of life behind the stage curtain. On her first night traveling with the company and staying in a large hotel with all its members, she finds herself too excited about her new career to sleep.
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He wrote, "It is in this latter complication that the nature of the drama is finally exposed for the deliberately scandalous, sensational and caustic thing it is. Mr. Preminger has his character go through a lurid and seamy encounter with his old friend before cutting his throat, an act that seems unrealistic, except as a splashy high point for the film." The Academy Film Archive preserved Advise & Consent in 2007.
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Despite Sable's seamy side, you understand why a major tycoon would stay married to her." Wallace dubbed Beacham "the show's real fire", and wrote that she "might just be the one to show Joan Collins the real meaning of she-deviltry." In February 1986, Beacham said that a confrontation between Sable and her cousin Alexis (Collins) might be "jolly good fun." Beacham commented in 2012 that she and Collins "felt we represented the Eighties.
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When she goes to her conservatory lessons instead, she discovers that he has lied to the professor to insinuate himself as her tutor. Michailow kisses Lisa, who despite awareness that the situation is unsavory, responds to the kiss. The third day, when her mother returns, Michailow calls Lisa at home and persuades her to sneak out. He takes her to a seamy cabaret to continue his patient seduction where he won't be recognized.
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Exquisite Corpse is a horror novel by American writer Poppy Z. Brite. The protagonist of the story is Andrew Compton, an English convicted homosexual serial killer, cannibal and necrophiliac.Classic Serial Killer novel - Exquisite Corpse Brite has described it as "a necrophilic, cannibalistic, serial killer love story that explores the seamy politics of victimhood and disease." Poppy Z. Brite, "The Poetry of Violence" in Karl French (ed) Screen Violence, London: Bloomsbury, 1996, 62-70.
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311 a tragedy which presents a remarkably vivid picture of the terrible commotion in the Russian ghetto when, in 1827, the ukase compelling the Jews to do military service was enforced for the first time (see Cantonist). His novel, Dos Sterntichl (1861) describes the seamy side of Ḥasidism, its intolerance, bigotry, and hypocrisy, and contrasts it with the fair-mindedness and honesty of progressive Judaism. Another work is Sefer Chasidim (1841)."Axenfeld, Israel" (German). Lexikon. wissen.de.
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John Morrissey, the first opponent of John Heenan The prize ring was in fact outlawed, but on 10 December 1857, Heenan fought a legal exhibition bout against Joe Coburn at the National Hall, Canal Street. He made a living as a "shoulder hitter" – a strong-arm man who might be hired for enforcement or protection in the seamy and often violent worlds of New York business and politics. His efforts earned him a sinecure in the New York Customs House.
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He sometimes wears a Pink Martini bomber-style jacket inspired by one sold by the business in the 1950s. Films including scenes shot at Mary's include Bongwater (1997), Brainsmasher... A Love Story (1993) and Dangerous Pursuit (1990). The club has been included in walking tours of Portland, including Lonely Planet's "Underground Portland". Mary's Club was the last stop on the 2013 "Seedy, Seamy and Sinful Portland" history tour, which took adult visitors to Old Town Chinatown sites to examine the city's "darker elements".
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The staff wrote, "Heavy melodrama, adapted from the Maritta M. Wolff novel of same title, is somber melodrama, vignetting a seamy side of life in a small town. Production and playing are excellent and the direction strong, although latter is given to occasional arty tone ... Gardner displays her best work to date as the girl who must have her man. McLaglen hits top form as the not too bright bartender, and Conway is smooth as the heavy. Score is an aid in projecting the somber mood."Variety.
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From these seamy surroundings, he became streetwise, with real and lasting education. Music was his only source of income and he picked up the language and culture of the ghetto lifestyle. Berlin learned what kind of songs appealed to audiences, writes Begreen: "well-known tunes expressing simple sentiments were the most reliable." He soon began plugging songs at Tony Pastor's Music Hall in Union Square and in 1906, when he was 18, got a job as a singing waiter at the Pelham Cafe in Chinatown.
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They were legally separated in 1889. The next year Ethel became pregnant by a lover and died of a botched abortion; a seamy, very public lawsuit followed in which the lover, the abortionist, and several others were indicted for Ethel's murder. Marshall Hall's guilt over his part in Ethel's fate would have a profound effect on his career: he would become famous for the impassioned nature of his defences of women maltreated by men. He subsequently married Henriette "Hetty" Kroeger, with whom he had one daughter, Elna.
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He started in South Africa on the board of the Tollgate Group, to which he was appointed "largely as a favour to [his] father","Dangerous Deceits: The Secrets of Apartheid's Corrupt Bankers", Frank Welsh, then a senior partner at Tollgate's UK stockbroker Rowe and Pitman. Tollgate eventually failed in "one of the most torrid, unpleasant and seamy corporate chapters in South Africa’s history". He worked at Robert Fleming & Co in South Africa as director of their Corporate Finance department. He then joined Warburg Dillon Read.
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He was 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighed 145 pounds. The American tennis player Vinnie Richards said he was "seamy-faced, cadaverous-looking and, in general, resembled a cigar-store Indian." Koželuh used the Continental grip, in which both the forehand and backhand are hit with the same grip, and preferred to play as much as 10 feet behind the baseline, returning balls endlessly to the other court, almost never advancing to the net. Seldom hitting the ball very hard, he was content to outrun and outlast his opponents in exhausting matches of attrition.
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The police commissioner Guido Brunetti confronts crime in and around his home town of Venice. Each case is an opportunity for the author to reveal another aspect of the seamy underside of society and another facet of Venetian life. Brunetti reports to the vain and self-serving buffoon, Vice-Questore Patta, while Sergente (later Ispettore and with the inspector per tu) Vianello and the all- knowing and well-connected Signorina Elettra, Patta's secretary, assist Brunetti on the ground and through research. These novels are successful in Germany and translated into many languages, except Italian.
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The Best Man is a 1964 American political drama film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner with a screenplay by Gore Vidal based on his 1960 play of the same title. Starring Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson, and Lee Tracy, the film details the seamy political maneuverings behind the nomination of a presidential candidate. The supporting cast features Edie Adams, Margaret Leighton, Ann Sothern, Shelley Berman, Gene Raymond, and Kevin McCarthy. Lee Tracy was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance, and it was his final film.
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Despite military officials' reservations about Hitler's plans for conquest, and despite shock over the seamy affair of Army Commander in Chief Werner von Fritsch's discharge in 1938 (see Blomberg-Fritsch Affair), Schulenburg volunteered for military service at the front with patriotic enthusiasm. After his superior, the Gauleiter and Oberpräsident Wagner, had been dismissed, his position as Regierungspräsident ("Government President") in Breslau had become untenable anyway. As a lieutenant in the reserves, Schulenburg was posted to the reserve battalion of Infantry Regiment 9 in Potsdam. With this elite unit, he participated in the Russian Campaign and was awarded the Iron Cross, first class.
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The latter would tease, cajole, and sit on visitors' laps or pose for photographs for a fee. Others would sashay up and down the street looking to hook half-drunk sailors, American GIs, and other foreigners for an hour of profitable intimacy. Not only would these clients get the thrill of sex with an exotic oriental, there would be the added spice of transgressing gender boundaries in a seamy hovel. There was an adage amongst Westerners that one could easily tell who was a real female and who was not: the transvestites were drop-dead gorgeous, while the rest were real women.
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He soon meets and bonds with a stripper, Latisha (Mimi Vasser), after frequenting the same bar. During the film, the audience meets an African-American named Tyrone (Serge Eustache) who may not share Saidu's morality, but is confronted with internal troubles. He is embroiled in a seamy love triangle with Saidu's encounter, Latisha and another woman, Lori (Maggie Maki), whom he has no feelings for but seems unable-or rather unwilling to rid himself of. All the characters' souls are stripped to the core by one searing (and national) event, which give them all fresh perspective.
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Late in 1868 Hatfield missed a match with Cincinnati's intercity rival, the Buckeyes, when a defeat would have required a third game to decide the local championship. After Cincinnati won without him, it came out that he had been benched by his club following a seamy incident the night before. Gamblers had "plied him with liquor, and offered him $200 plus a job in the assessor's office if he would desert the Red Stockings and immediately become captain of the Buckeyes." He had admitted the scheme, but plead intoxication and asked to continue playing with the Red Stockings.
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Macho Dancer is a 1988 Philippine film, directed by Lino Brocka. It explores the realities of a young, poor, rural gay man, who after being dumped by his American boyfriend, is forced to support himself and his family in Manila's seamy red-light district. The film's frank depiction of homosexuality, prostitution, drag queens and crooked cops, the porn industry, sexual slavery, and drugs and violence caused Filipino government censors to order extensive edits of the film. Brocka smuggled an uncensored cut out of the Philippines to be shown to a limited number of international film festivals.
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George Anderson of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette deemed the film "another display of softcore sex and seamy violence that might better have been kept abroad." Joe Baltake of the Philadelphia Daily News wrote: "Blood flows freely and limbs detach easily, in Sergio Martino's Torso, a disagreeable Italian import withnot surprisinglylittle to recommend it." The Los Angeles Timess Linda Gross wrote that the film was a "lazy suspense movie" with a "disjointed and loose" screenplay. The extended cat-and-mouse villa scenes between the killer and the final girl in the film's last 30 minutes have led to Torso being retrospectively recognised as a "proto-slasher film".
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This is the first English translation of one of Chen's most famous works. I Love My Mum caused an international sensation in 2007 when the author sued Chinese customs after they confiscated the Chinese version. I Love My Mum is a shocking tale of murder and incest narrated by a hardened crime squad detective who is used to the seamy side of life, but had never come across a murder case like the one in the story. In addition to a full and uncensored translation of I Love My Mum, the book includes a specially written afterword by Chen and an introduction to his life and work.
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It consists primarily of slow motion and time-lapse cinematography of cities and natural landscapes, which results in a visual tone poem. Another approach used by directors in the 1980s was to create bizarre, surreal alternative worlds. Martin Scorsese's After Hours (1985) is a comedy-thriller that depicts a man's baffling adventures in a surreal nighttime world of chance encounters with mysterious characters. David Lynch's Blue Velvet (1986), a film noir-style thriller- mystery filled with symbolism and metaphors about polarized worlds and inhabited by distorted characters who are hidden in the seamy underworld of a small town, became surprisingly successful considering its highly disturbing subject matter.
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A Dance of the Forests is regarded as Soyinka's theatrical debut and has been considered the most complex and difficult to understand of his plays."A Dance of the Forests", Hans M. Zell, Carol Bundy, Virginia Coulon, A New Reader's Guide to African Literature, Heinemann Educational Books, 1983, p. 169. In it, Soyinka unveils the rotten aspects of the society and demonstrates that the past is no better than the present when it comes to the seamy side of life. He lays bare the fabric of the Nigerian society and warns people as they are on the brink of a new stage in their history: independence.
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Critics generally praised the acting and direction but decried the plot and script, characterizing it as a "seamy-side melodrama" and "a run-of-the-mill problem melodrama". The Chicago Tribune wrote: "Jimmy Dunn does as well as anyone could, considering the plot and the script, and Mona Freeman is appealing, but the whole business is leaden and definitely second class fare". The St. Louis Globe Democrat found it difficult to make sense of the story and its message. Ziggy starts out earning audience sympathy for her difficult upbringing, but loses it by accepting her mother's advice that "the path of easy virtue is the easy way".
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In a similar vein, Lou Lumenick from the New York Post quipped that the film is "... so seamy it makes you want to take a bath afterward", and he stated that "[r]arely has so much sin seemed so boring". Several critics pinned the blame for the problems on the director. Critic Nigel Andrews from the Financial Times acknowledges that "Bret Easton Ellis pens a mean tale, in all adjectival senses. His prose is artfully maleficent; he is a laid-back Severus Snape of the sex-and-drugs generation." However, he argues that "[y]ou need a smarter directing hand, though, than Gregor Jordan’s" to make the film work.
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In Los Angeles, 1941 - against a seamy backdrop of police corruption, cheap hotel rooms, illegal gambling and jewel trafficking - private detective Philip Marlowe is holed up in a hotel room and growing more weary by the hour. As he explains to his police lieutenant friend Nulty: "I've got a hat, a coat and a gun; that's it." Marlowe has been hired by a huge and surly ex-convict, Moose Malloy, to find his old girlfriend Velma, whom he has not seen in seven years. At the same time, Marlowe is investigating the murder of a client named Marriott, who was a victim of blackmail and a stolen necklace made of jade.
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The film drew a mixed reception. Variety gave it a mostly positive review, stating: "The tale of a down-and-out detective and a seamy femme fatale is a thoroughly professional little entertainment. Time Out gave it a mostly negative review, complaining: "Derived from assorted Hitchcocks and noir classics, the tortuous storyline of writer-director Dahl's determinedly sordid thriller has its moments," but was critical of the three lead actors and concludes: "Setting its study of betrayal and deceit in and around the gambling towns of the Nevada desert, the film sporadically achieves a truly seedy atmosphere, but there are too many symbols, too many loose ends, and too many vaguely sensationalist scenes.
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A group of Baker fans, ranging from ex-associates to ex-wives and children, talk about the man. Weber's film traces the man's career from the 1950s, playing with jazz greats like Charlie Parker, Gerry Mulligan, and Russ Freeman, to the 1980s, when his heroin addiction and domestic indifference kept him in Europe. By juxtaposing these two decades, Weber presents a sharp contrast between the younger, handsome Baker — the statuesque idol who resembled a mix of James Dean and Jack Kerouac — to what he became, “a seamy looking drugstore cowboy-cum-derelict”, as J. Hoberman put it in his Village Voice review. Let's Get Lost begins near the end of Baker's life, on the beaches of Santa Monica, and ends at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Edison earned his first magazine publishing job in 1986, as editor of Wrestling's Main Event, by defeating the incumbent editor in a bloody Loser Leaves Town match.Wrestling's Main Event, Pumpkin Press, October 1986, "Bloody Office Battle: Editors Fight to a Finish" Between 1985 and 1988 he authored 28 pornographic novels, and in his career on the seamy side of the publishing business, he has written about German whorehouses and Spanish coke dealers for Hustler,Hustler Magazine 1993 and has published a series of erotic “confessions” for Penthouse Letters. He was also a frequent contributor to Screw magazine, penning chronicles of 42nd Street, then the adult entertainment mecca of New York City. In the late 1980s Edison began writing a featured column about television and politics, "Shoot the Tube," for marijuana and counterculture magazine High Times.
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Psychologist Fredric Wertham decided that the phenomenon was a landmine of hidden and repressed Freudian issues, and that a sidekick's participation in violent encounters alongside his hero masked a sexual subtext. In 1954, Wertham's book Seduction of the Innocent coincided with Congressional hearings on (among other topics) the negative influence of comic books. For a time, superhero comics lost their popularity, and many teenage sidekicks faded into obscurity. (Rick Veitch's graphic novel Brat Pack, and issues of Alan Moore's Top 10, directly address the seamy, exploitative, and potentially pedophilia-related aspects of the adult hero-teen sidekick relationship.) In the early 1960s, at the advent of comics' so-called Silver Age, a new round of superhero sidekicks made their debuts, including Rick Jones, Aqualad, Snapper Carr, Kid Flash, and Wonder Girl.
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Thomas' books reflect his career-long interest in politics and economics. His work examines how misplaced trust in alleged 'experts' can have calamitous as well as amusing consequences. The New York Times Book Review called his first book Lawyers and Thieves, coauthored by Roy Grutman, a “wry, witty, eloquent” look at the practice of law. The Wall Street Journal called it an “entertaining expose” of the legal profession, from the seamy world of New York personal-injury lawyers to the highest court in the land. Los Angeles Times said Lawyers and Thieves, “has the quality of hard-boiled mystery fiction, tough, knowing and full of dirty little secrets.”"LAWYERS AND THIEVES, by Roy Grutman and Bob Thomas" book review by Jonathan Kirsh in the Los Angeles Times July 04, 1990, accessed August 27, 2010 Red Tape: Adventure Capitalism in the New Russia (Dutton) details how business is done in Russia.
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Televangelist Bob Larson stated that he and Moynihan were "poles apart spiritually and philosophically", but that he respected the book as an "exhaustive resource regarding the seamy and Satanic side of pop music and culture". Journalist Kevin Coogan wrote an essay titled "How Black Is Black Metal?" in which he discusses several of the ideas purported in Lords of Chaos. Coogan considers Moynihan's personal political beliefs to be "at work just below the surface of a text ostensibly devoted solely to analyzing an extremist musical sub-culture" and ultimately counters the book's apocalyptic thesis with the conclusion that the black metal/fascism connection hangs largely "on a thin evidentiary thread", namely Varg Vikernes, who had shown extremist tendencies well before entering the scene. Coogan states that Moynihan is "an extreme rightist whose fusion of politics and aesthetic violence shapes a not-so-hidden sub current that runs throughout LOC".
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Charters’ first script garnered media attention (but no deal) because it drew on his considerable experience of the seamy side of professional sport from his time working for the Swiss sports marketing company ISL, which collapsed in 2001 with debts of more than $300 millionKevin Eason, "The Insider" The Times, 3 October 2006 despite holding exclusive rights to major global sports governing bodies and their events. Charters said he finished the script for Bolt Action listening to the commentary of the Pacific Islanders playing Italy on 22 November 2008. ‘When the whistle blew for full time, the first Islanders Test win [17 points to 25], I was within 10 minutes of finishing my script. And I knew then that Bolt Action would be blessed with good luck.’"Two book deal for former PIRA boss turned thriller writer" Pacific Island News Agency, 10 July 2009 Charters' agent is Charlie Viney of The Viney Agency.
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The Mànnara where Luparello's found dead (location used in the TV series) Silvio Luparello, an engineer, developer, and aspiring politician from an aristocratic construction family, dies of a heart attack while having sex with his nephew and lover Giorgio at his beach house. The nephew panics, and, wanting to protect his uncle from the embarrassing circumstance of his death and not trusting himself to be able to move his uncle's body due to his epilepsy, calls his uncle's friend and political crony Attorney Rizzo for help. Rizzo assures the nephew he will take care of it, but then, instead of trying to help, attempts to take advantage of the situation and betrays his friendship with Luparello by attempting to use his death to gain leverage over his political opponent, Secretary Cardamone. This he does by attempting to cast Cardamone's Swedish daughter-in-law Ingrid as Luparello's lover and implicating her in his death – at the scene of a seamy outdoor brothel.
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The book to some extent explores the themes of social order, the client-patron relationship, gender roles, and time travel, but for the most part is a tale of action and adventure rather than a vehicle for philosophical musings. The story takes place in the midst of the Roman Empire's Third Century Crisis. The Empire is in a very bad shape: Emperors replace each other rapidly, usually by civil war or coup d'état; the current Emperor, Gallienus, has effective power only in Italy and parts of North Africa; to the west, the rival Emperor Postumus rules Gaul, while to the east Palmyra has become an effectively independent power and encroaches on Imperial territory; the urban population bursts out into frequent riots; the Imperial borders are broken, with Germanic Barbarians raiding overland and into the waters of the Mediterranean. Throughout the book, the protagonist Aulus Perennius is acting under the assumption that the Empire is irrevocably doomed - and still, he is doggedly and completely devoted to this doomed Empire, even when having seen much of its seamy side.
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She produced biographies of two Spanish singers, the daughters of Manuel del Pópulo Vicente García: firstly of Pauline García- Viardot, who was a star of nineteenth century France (The Price of Genius, 1964), and later a new life of Pauline Viardot's sister Maria Malibran, one of the most notable opera singers of the century (Maria Malibran: diva of the romantic age, 1987). In researching her book on Viardot, FitzLyon found much on the singer's long relationship with Ivan Turgenev, and in 1983 she wrote the catalogue for the London Theatre Museum's centenary exhibition 'Turgenev and the Theatre'. In 1975 she published Nobody: or, The Disgospel according to Maria Dementnaya, a translation of a Russian samizdat novel, Nikto, which was about the seamy side of the life of Bohemian dissidents and had been smuggled out of Russia in 1966. She went on to translate verse from Russian into both English and French, contributed to Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, and wrote articles and reviews, including work for Encounter, the Times Literary Supplement and The Literary Review.
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