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  • The woman marries a guy named Slim, who's a low-level heister.

    Archive 2007-12-09 Bill Crider 2007

  • The woman marries a guy named Slim, who's a low-level heister.

    Criss-Cross -- Don Tracy Bill Crider 2007

  • In 1968 he featured in the Steve McQueen/Faye Dunaway vehicle The Thomas Crown Affair playing a professional heister.

    Cult Actors #4: Yaphet Kotto | Obsessed With Film 2008

  • Richard Stark's Parker series, about a heister has been going on for years and years.

    My (Anti-)Hero 2006

  • A well-dressed male Caucasian would walk in and beat the clerk to the floor with the barrel of a .45 automatic, while the negro heister stuffed the till cash into a paper bag.

    Hollywood Nocturne Ellroy, James 1994

  • Cora's tale of her love for Billy Boyle back in his heister days, her slide into call-house service when he went to prison, and her lingering crush on Wallace Simpkins was predictable and mawkishly rendered.

    Hollywood Nocturne Ellroy, James 1994

  • Parker, Stark's diamond-hard anti-heroic heister-protagonist, has admitted a woman into his life but remains as tough and unrelenting as ever.

    ArtsJournal: Daily Arts News 2010

  • Parker, Stark's diamond-hard anti-heroic heister-protagonist, has admitted a woman into his life but remains as tough and unrelenting as ever.

    ArtsJournal: Daily Arts News 2010

  • Parker, Stark's diamond-hard anti-heroic heister-protagonist, has admitted a woman into his life but remains as tough and unrelenting as ever.

    About Last Night 2010

  • Parker, Stark's diamond-hard anti-heroic heister-protagonist, has admitted a woman into his life but remains as tough and unrelenting as ever.

    About Last Night 2010

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