How Much Is Enough?

[holliday1960]

I met Al Capone's grandson a few years ago. Friendly but odd. Looks like Al.

Are you a screenplay writer?

Heaven's no! But, I used to work in the entertainment field. I was the Center Director for an international talent agency.

 

[lovecraft68]

That's essentially the next Trump autobio, The Art of the Heel. "I saw, I kissed, I groped, I came."

With a forward by Bill Clinton-"How to fuck everything in sight for decades and be in the company of known child rapists and keep your wife because she is a shameless career climbing bitch with no regard for women's rights right down to talking money from countries that don't think rape is a crime and don't allow their women to even learn to read."

Don't get me started on the prologue "Hillary how to ride my daddy's name, then my husbands then get a sweetheart deal from the president for covering his ass on getting a diplomat murdered in Benghazi, oh and I get rapists off and laugh about it to."

All in all an intriguing book I would say.

 

[lovecraft68]

Heaven's no! But, I used to work in the entertainment field. I was the Center Director for an international talent agency.

I worked in the entertainment industry too. I was a cooler at a large strip club for a couple of years. I think they made the Roadhouse line "Thought you'd be bigger" just for me.

 

[holliday1960]

I met Al Capone's grandson a few years ago. Friendly but odd. Looks like Al.

Are you a screenplay writer?

Really?!! That must've been an interesting meeting. I would imagine Capone was odd as well. Most successful people are.
The closest I came to Capone was meeting the man who was Chicago Police Captain during Capone's reign. He was quite old at the time (in his nineties) and not as talkative as I would have liked him to be. I'm sure there were reasons for that though. He called Capone a son-of-a-bitch, but I got the feeling, there was a whole lot more to the story than just a mutual dislike for one another.
I asked the man who introduced us a few questions because he knew the old Capt. well. He just nodded and did his fingers like the old man was on the take. I didn't ask anything else.

 

[holliday1960]

I worked in the entertainment industry too. I was a cooler at a large strip club for a couple of years. I think they made the Roadhouse line "Thought you'd be bigger" just for me.

I've only known a couple of strippers and not very well at all. But, now you've mentioned Roadhouse...One of my favorites (Sam Elliott)...what I could do with a man like that!

 

[lovecraft68]

I've only known a couple of strippers and not very well at all. But, now you've mentioned Roadhouse...One of my favorites (Sam Elliott)...what I could do with a man like that!

I loved his character. Grizzled tough old bastard. The fight scenes in that movie were fantastic. well done and realistic. The Jimmy/Dalton fight ranks among the best ever.

 

[holliday1960]

I loved his character. Grizzled tough old bastard. The fight scenes in that movie were fantastic. well done and realistic. The Jimmy/Dalton fight ranks among the best ever.

Loved when he takes the guy's knee out...then bends over and says, "Betcha that hurt, didn't it?" or something to that effect! LOL Priceless! Loved him in Conager, Gone to Texas, Shadow Riders, and the Quick and the Dead.

 

[lovecraft68]

Loved when he takes the guy's knee out...then bends over and says, "Betcha that hurt, didn't it?" or something to that effect! LOL Priceless! Loved him in Conager, Gone to Texas, Shadow Riders, and the Quick and the Dead.

One of the first movies I remember him in was Mask the one with Cher and the deformed boy sad movie.

 

[holliday1960]

One of the first movies I remember him in was Mask the one with Cher and the deformed boy sad movie.

I remember that one! Great movie! But, I remember Cher's performance the most, because she really shined in that one. Sadly, I don't remember Sam's role. (Time to break out the old boxes of movies and relive them yet again!) Beats just about anything I've seen or heard of lately...Can you believe they REMADE Blair Witch Project??? This is why I stopped going to movies.

 

[lovecraft68]

I remember that one! Great movie! But, I remember Cher's performance the most, because she really shined in that one. Sadly, I don't remember Sam's role. (Time to break out the old boxes of movies and relive them yet again!) Beats just about anything I've seen or heard of lately...Can you believe they REMADE Blair Witch Project??? This is why I stopped going to movies.

He was Cher's biker boyfriend.

Blair Witch? Ugh. Every thing is a damned remake these days.

Looking forward to Doctor Strange next month though

 

[NOIRTRASH]

Really?!! That must've been an interesting meeting. I would imagine Capone was odd as well. Most successful people are.
The closest I came to Capone was meeting the man who was Chicago Police Captain during Capone's reign. He was quite old at the time (in his nineties) and not as talkative as I would have liked him to be. I'm sure there were reasons for that though. He called Capone a son-of-a-bitch, but I got the feeling, there was a whole lot more to the story than just a mutual dislike for one another.
I asked the man who introduced us a few questions because he knew the old Capt. well. He just nodded and did his fingers like the old man was on the take. I didn't ask anything else.

My dad did work for organized crime outta Miami. My dad rustled cattle for them from ranches around Central Florida. Butchering cattle is easy if you have the equipment to hoist the animal after you shoot him, and have refrigerator trucks on hand to cool and transport the meat. The other part is paying off the deputies who patrolled the area.

I met plenty of 'soldiers.' All were crude and ugly, as were their women. Never met any sexy molls. The higher ups looked like the Addams Family.

 

[rjordan]

Don't get me started on the prologue "Hillary how to ride my daddy's name, then my husbands then get a sweetheart deal from the president for covering his ass on getting a diplomat murdered in Benghazi, oh and I get rapists off and laugh about it to."

Well, you write lots of fiction here so you're no stranger to total fantasy. You don't appear to be very well informed on any number of subjects, though, so there's that thing about writing what you know.

rj

 

[holliday1960]

He was Cher's biker boyfriend.

Blair Witch? Ugh. Every thing is a damned remake these days.

Looking forward to Doctor Strange next month though

I recall now...thanks for the prompt. How could I forget that?
Yeah, seriously, Blair Witch! I was shamed by my nephew until I agreed to watch it. So, after SIX attempts to get past the first 10 minutes, I managed to sit still until the end. Worst movie EVER! and did I say EVER???
So, a few weeks ago, the girls all decided to go out one night, and I asked them what they were gonna do? When they told me go see Blair Witch remake, I was like "Well, THAT'S gonna be a bought lesson!" One of them actually liked it! (Must be something in the water these days!)

 

[holliday1960]

My dad did work for organized crime outta Miami. My dad rustled cattle for them from ranches around Central Florida. Butchering cattle is easy if you have the equipment to hoist the animal after you shoot him, and have refrigerator trucks on hand to cool and transport the meat. The other part is paying off the deputies who patrolled the area.

I met plenty of 'soldiers.' All were crude and ugly, as were their women. Never met any sexy molls. The higher ups looked like the Addams Family.

LOL My Grandpa ran bootleg and shine during prohibition. I still have one of his old moonshine bottles! (He was a deputy sheriff at the same time.) He used to say the 'High Sheriff' was the main supply for the entire county.

Everyone back then pretended to be in the 'turpentine business', but when the revenuers came, they all took to the woods. Most of 'em never got caught. There was no "organized" crime in that area at the time. Just rednecks and hillbillies!
Later, maybe two decades later, came the Dixie Mafia, but they were child's play for the most part. A little back-room gamblin', a few ladies of the evening. Didn't get too serious until the '70's. Most of the real organized crime concentrated in New Orleans and of course, Fla.
Now, the ladies and gents in New Orleans? There were some real lookers there! That song they made, New Orleans Ladies, was dead on the money. They had cultural blends that turned out some of the most beautiful women in the world back then. Don't know how it is today, though.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

LOL My Grandpa ran bootleg and shine during prohibition. I still have one of his old moonshine bottles! (He was a deputy sheriff at the same time.) He used to say the 'High Sheriff' was the main supply for the entire county.

Everyone back then pretended to be in the 'turpentine business', but when the revenuers came, they all took to the woods. Most of 'em never got caught. There was no "organized" crime in that area at the time. Just rednecks and hillbillies!
Later, maybe two decades later, came the Dixie Mafia, but they were child's play for the most part. A little back-room gamblin', a few ladies of the evening. Didn't get too serious until the '70's. Most of the real organized crime concentrated in New Orleans and of course, Fla.
Now, the ladies and gents in New Orleans? There were some real lookers there! That song they made, New Orleans Ladies, was dead on the money. They had cultural blends that turned out some of the most beautiful women in the world back then. Don't know how it is today, though.

I'm reading a fictional account of the prostitution industry circa the 1950s. Lawrence Block wrote it, and he researched sex top to bottom in the years he published porn. The women who thrived worked for madams not pimps. Pimps generally treat women like shit, madams take care of them. And may explain why orphans were placed with them.

My people are all from the South, most were literate or educated, and all were blabbermouths who left damning testimonials of real life back then. Fascinating reading. More....real life in the South wasn't Dogpatch and Tara.

 

[holliday1960]

I'm reading a fictional account of the prostitution industry circa the 1950s. Lawrence Block wrote it, and he researched sex top to bottom in the years he published porn. The women who thrived worked for madams not pimps. Pimps generally treat women like shit, madams take care of them. And may explain why orphans were placed with them.

My people are all from the South, most were literate or educated, and all were blabbermouths who left damning testimonials of real life back then. Fascinating reading. More....real life in the South wasn't Dogpatch and Tara.

I got news for yah...you can go further south, but you can't get more southern than where my family originated! LOL

 

[NOIRTRASH]

I got news for yah...you can go further south, but you can't get more southern than where my family originated! LOL

Half of mine were Virginians related to Washington, Jefferson et al, and half were Swiss who came to South Carolina and married Cherokees.

 

[holliday1960]

Half of mine were Virginians related to Washington, Jefferson et al, and half were Swiss who came to South Carolina and married Cherokees.

Hmmm...that is interesting. I have relations to Martha Custis Washington myself. And, choctaw/german mix as well. The gold strike in N.C. is alleged to have funded my ancestors move to the deeper south.