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But--here's where the in-group stuff kicks in-- Nancy is the late artist Nancy Graves, and the thug is Richard Serra, whom she married in 1965.
I don't like Richie Aprile, the new thug on the block, precisely because he's such a malevolent thug, at least so far (yeah, he's a bit New Agey, but his whole yoga shtick feels forced, as if the writers decided that each and every character had to be a member of the sensitive, slightly feminized postmodern mob).
The movie might have been unbearably depressing if Old Man Dunphy had been the thug of Farrelly's novel.
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The thug with the fuck-you sneer depicted in Richard (1969), a magnified mug shot hanging to her right, could be the guy she's just caught sight of.