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"Subprime: The Sequel"

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

It's like Goodfellas -- Maury's wigs don't come off!

12/11/09, 1:01 AM

Blogger Robert said...

He owned a Prius??! I wonder if his will specifies that the hearse should have a low carbon footprint? Hey, there's a growth industry - electric hearses! They don't have to worry about keeping up with traffic.

12/11/09, 5:31 AM

Blogger keypusher said...

Between Wal Mart and the Chinese, the toy business is pretty cutthroat.

12/11/09, 5:59 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"slumped behind a Prius outside their home in the 4600 block of Sugarhill Drive"

Not to laugh at a man's murder, but this is the kind of stuff David Chase made a career out of putting onto TV.

12/11/09, 6:03 AM

Blogger David said...

> The toy store business is notoriously cut-throat, especially this time of year, so I'm sure that's the real story here. <

The Keystone Kops should bring in Santa's elves for questioning.

12/11/09, 6:14 AM

Anonymous anony-mouse said...

Tarantino-esque? How about Chandleresque? Apparently this is how LA has always been.

Relax, Steve, this is Chinatown.

12/11/09, 6:21 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Steve
I live in Manhattan Beach - this story is attracting a lot of interest here because our neighbors in Rolling Hills frequently brag about how they are living in the safest part of Los Angeles, I think until now crime of this sort was just unheard of in Rolling Hills.

12/11/09, 7:33 AM

Anonymous josh said...

He drove a Prius???

12/11/09, 10:49 AM

Blogger kudzu bob said...

Our Father who art in Heaven, all I ask is that You in Your mercy and wisdom don't let me be found dead behind the wheel of a Prius. An Audi or Lexus, sure. Maybe even a Cadillac. But never a Prius. Amen.

12/11/09, 11:03 AM

Anonymous sj071 said...

'...slumped behind Prius..'
Never have I so enjoyed true crime report.

12/11/09, 11:50 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

It could be done as a straight documentary and still retain a great deal of comic effect.


I think people would have a hard time following Tarantino's treatment of subject matter like this because he'd use characters sprouting lingo to provide the exposition, and Im not good at making hide-from-hair of ghetto-english, Spanglish, and double-entendre-internationale-arms-dealers-over-the-cellphone-speak (words like "wetwork" mean something quite different to those people).

The subject matter and plot are quite funny enough.



Really dirty idea: Tarantino could use subtitles superimposed at the bottome of the screen just like a foreign movie while the sleazebag lingo is being sprouted so us suburbanites could understand it. I apologize to any subprime lenders who seen their "financial-ese" being subtitled in pictures forewinth.

12/11/09, 1:28 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

This isn't crime. It's a hit. The hit man didn't even worry enough about detection to use a silencer. He wanted the murder reported quickly.

I suspect somebody got the message besides the corpse.

12/11/09, 4:57 PM

Anonymous Helene Edwards said...

"has powerful attorneys in Los Angeles buzzing ..."

Nah, it doesn't happen like that. First of all, this guy was basically a nobody in the L.A. legal biz. Firms with a solid client list typically avoid working for outfits like New Century, so this guy wouldn't have been on many folks' screens. And anyway, the legal culture's way of dealing with a sudden fall is to avoid talking about it. I was working in law firms when
Enron/Arthur Anderson went down, when Bill Lerach was exposed, and when a big Clinton contributor/SF lawyer named Duane Garrett killed himself. The response is always a yawn.

12/12/09, 12:32 PM

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