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While there are many moments of humor in the play, Hamill does not shy away from digging into the violent and seamy side of the world’s oldest profession.
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Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Oct. 2023
Working with cinematographer Robby Müller, Friedkin puts a Los Angeles on screen that is equal parts glamorous and seamy, where even the palm tree in the movie’s logo looks like a gunshot wound.
—Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023
Feinstein’s uncle, Morris Goldman, introduced her to the seamy world of San Francisco politics in the ’40s and ’50s, when bosses, bettors and bookies ran everything.
—Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2023
Ailes denied the claims, some of which came in the form of detailed lawsuits, but the Murdochs, the family that controls Fox, ousted him amidst amid a flurry of personal accounts of seamy behavior.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 7 Sep. 2023
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Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Oct. 2023
Working with cinematographer Robby Müller, Friedkin puts a Los Angeles on screen that is equal parts glamorous and seamy, where even the palm tree in the movie’s logo looks like a gunshot wound.
—Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023
Feinstein’s uncle, Morris Goldman, introduced her to the seamy world of San Francisco politics in the ’40s and ’50s, when bosses, bettors and bookies ran everything.
—Reis Thebault, Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2023
Ailes denied the claims, some of which came in the form of detailed lawsuits, but the Murdochs, the family that controls Fox, ousted him amidst amid a flurry of personal accounts of seamy behavior.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 7 Sep. 2023
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“Seamy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seamy. Accessed 21 Oct. 2024.
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