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The WP runs an op-ed about the movie "Hoodlum" over the by-line of Thomas E.L.
For starters, Hoodlum elevates Johnson's importance at the expense of Stephanie St. Clair, a k a Madame Queen (Cicely Tyson), an immigrant from Martinique who became a numbers millionaire, and for whom Johnson went to work after his release from jail.
' In the underworld, apparently, it came to be applied, contemptuously, to a whole range of people, mostly young: apprentice hobo, inexpert hoodlum, punk, nance, sneak, informer, and so on.
Similarly, rap is the logical consequence of pop's 30-year promotion of street cred over music: the reduction of the tune to a banal pneumatic backing track, the debasement of lyric-writing to a formless laundry list of half-baked hoodlum exhibitionism.
Hoodlum 's Dewey (William Atherton) bears little resemblance to the real prosecutor, district attorney, governor, and failed presidential candidate.