Word: caper
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...breathing. Though her husband Tom (John Bindon) is a crude, bullying, small-time criminal, Joy manages a pathetic simulation of middle-class domesticity-living in a development house, airing baby Jonny in a swanky pram, serving hostessy sandwiches to Tom's accomplices while they are plotting a caper...
...caper began last winter, when Mailer's play The Deer Park was running off-Broadway. Mailer and a few of the actors got into the habit of boozing together in a Greenwich Village restaurant after performances. As boys will, they fell into a game of let's pretend. They pretended they were Sicilian gangsters, and they gave themselves names-Cameo, Twenty Years, The Prince (Mailer, of course)-and they talked tough and dirty at each other night after night. It was all such fun that Mailer laid out $1,500, moved his make-believe Mafiosos into a large...
...Capote's story with remarkable fidelity. Hickock (Scott Wilson), an ex-con, allows his narrow, twisted mind to feed on rumors of a safe with $10,000 in the Clutter farmhouse. He persuades his parolee friend Smith to come along for the ride. But this is no ordinary caper, since both men teeter on the edge of madness. Hickock has strong but subliminal homosexual feelings, and likes to call his colleague "Honey." Perry, brutalized since childhood by his rodeo-riding father, is the victim of a motorcycle accident that left his dwarfed legs in perpetual agony. To alleviate...
...obscenities and a pat on her back, one grabbed her purse, running with it to the opposite side of the street where Primitivo and the others were gathered. Mrs. Kindermann followed. With so many ordinary respectable people around, she could not believe that she was in danger. But the caper had just begun...
Once again the scenario follows the gang of small-time thieves breezily intent on bringing off the biggest caper of them all. "Money breeds money," theorizes one. Replies his colleague: "Mine must be on the Pill." Audaciously, they work out their gentlemanly battle plans, forsaking guns-it's hard-cheese for the armed robber who gets caught-recruiting specialists in such arcane subjects as railroad engineering and advanced electronics. After the loot is lifted, the film collapses into a text-bookish story of police procedure, as Scotland Yard tries to run the thieves to earth...