Word: calloway
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1974-1974
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...category into which Reed consigns all those he regards as black opportunists-Ed Yellings' own son, for instance, Street Yellings, a violent militant who has a rape clinic named after him. There is also Ed's daughter Minnie the Moocher ("a lowdown hootchy-kootcher," according to Cab Calloway), whose entourage is a group of Amazonian bodyguards known as the Daho-meyan Softball Team...
...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 and Kirk Calloway, as the sailor and the kid, are very good too - so much better than the material, in fact, that you almost wonder why they bothered...