PROJECT: The Killing of a Chinese Bookie GENRE: Neo Noir Indie YEAR: 1976 TALENT: Alice Friedland KNOWN FOR: The Killing of a Chinese Bookie OTHER PROJECTS: The Great Texas Dynamite Chase, Please Don’t Eat My Mother, Sam Peckinpah’s The Killer Elite CHARACTER: Sherry POSITION: Sherry is one of many dancers of the Crazy Horse West run by Ben Gazarra’s Cosmo, who is in debt with a gaggle of slimy mobsters… But Alice’s Sherry is by far the fullest-figured dancer and the fan favorite of the audience within the film itself… She seems to come out last and gets the most applause: the clean-up batter of strippers. CLOSURE: Cosmo is first asked to sell off his ladies to the Chinese Bookie who he is later ordered to kill to get rid of his massive gambling debt: the latter which he actually pulls off… So the end of the movie, after…
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