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Hoodlum , directed by Bill Duke, tells the story of Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson, a black gangster who did battle with mobster Dutch Schultz in the 1930s.
It's especially dubious when one considers that MGM has released just one film, Hoodlum , since Kerkorian and Stokes bought the company in October 1996.
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.