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Most movies about low-life Americana condescend to their subject with lots of sweat, foul patter, fat ladies and idiot giggling. This lurid and intermittently seductive melodrama (based on a true story) just observes Brad Sr. and his mob dispassionately, like slime mold under a microscope. They execute their robberies, and their victims, with soulless professionalism; their gangster grimaces register starkness without sexiness. Brad Jr. and his pals are hardly more exemplary. Talking tough, swigging beer, waiting for something bad to happen, they could be the Whitewood Gang in embryo...
That was almost 17 years ago, Halloween Day, 1969. My attacker was some poor idiot tripping on LSD and the spirit of the holiday, and my savior was my mother. I only mention this incident because of the comment I made a few minutes and several blocks later, when my mother caught me trying to crawl into a police...
...leaping into a nasty stretch of the Amazon. One by one, the piranha enter: Poodlehead, a doe-eyed boy who has already submitted two wretched, thinly-veiled masturbation poems; the Prioress, whose presence causes the room temperature to drop five degrees; Quasimodo, Sigmund the Sea Monster, the Village Idiot, the Whore of Babylon, and a host of other low characters...
...more and more employees are becoming fed up with working alongside people who are stoned. Says a news correspondent for a major New York City TV station: "After all, you work for days sometimes to make a story the best you can, and then some drug-abusing idiot pushes the wrong button when you're on the air. Why should I put up with that...
...danced in his underpants. Ron, with his unaffected way of carrying his celebrity lightly, insists that he had few qualms about taking on the S.N.L. assignment. Says he: "People think that any member of the First Family is necessarily stupid and incompetent. They automatically assume you must be an idiot." His S.N.L. mentors were more apprehensive. "All week I kept thinking, 'He's not actually going to do this,' " recalls Head Writer Jim Downey...