Everything about this L.A. noir is so over the top, it nearly exists in its own genre universe. Let’s call it “camp noir.” A femme fatale with a stately British accent; a character named Jojo; a mystery drug that revives gassed convicts to life. Nurse: Why don’t you talk to me anymore? Aren’t you listening? […]
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“I love you. Ever since that first day at the convent, when I saw you playing volleyball with the nuns, I couldn’t help myself.” – Spoken dialogue in Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets.
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Client: Hi.
Therapist: Yep. (fast, almost sounds like the same voice saying, “Hiyep”)
Client: How’re ya doin’?
Therapist: Fine, what’s up. (curt and quick, almost telegraphic)
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So, my Dad still won’t let me have any money. He said he didn’t have any, but now he’s saying that I can’t have it, so that sounds like he actually has some, which means he was lying about not having any money because if I can’t have it that means there’s some money there, right?
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Once the city gets into a bohoy’s syhystem, he loses his ahankering for the cohuntry.
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Mother, that man there wants to take your picture. Let’s dance!!
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December 5th, 2007 · 1 Comment
Hatching a plot to get Bing’s girl under contract as Fred’s dancing partner.
Danny, Fred’s manager: “This is no time to be honest!”
Fred: “Well, what should I do?”
Danny: “All we have to do is to convince Jim that he’d be a heel if he stood in the way of a chance like this.”
Fred: “Oh, that’ll be easy. Like peeling a turtle.”
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