I had previously ruined one of Katie's childhood memories (on purpose) by showing her
Microwave Massacre because it has the voice of Frosty the Snowman saying "I'm so hungry, I could eat a wh**e!" This time, by accident, I killed another.
Willie is the best-dressed pimp I have ever seen. He has an incredible outer coat that is mauve-purple or some other impossible color. The coat also has white fur in parallel lines, and he has a matching hat big hat! If that was not enough, Willie also has a shining lime green pants suit with gold shoes.
Out of all the cool 70s pimps, Willie is my fashion hero.
Now, Willie is not just any New York City pimp. He is the #2 pimp, but he aims to be #1. He works his girls in the best hotel, dresses them in fancy clothes, and keeps his b****es in line. Those hookers are dressed...for suck-cess! Every seven minutes another john comes off the production line, and the girl moves on to the next. It's perfect capitalism (imagine Willie laying this all out and snapping his fingers as each john should be getting done).
I think it was right after Willie got done smacking one of his hoes who was not earning her keep that Katie recognized the pimp. "Andrew, that is Gordon...from 'Sesame Street!' Oh no!"
The movie tries to change gears between pimpdom awesomeness and portraying the ugly side of the meat market (the man comes down on Willie, and other pimps start sniffing around his turf), so it doesn't really work as a whole. There are still some great scenes, and the soul-shaking realization that Gordon from "Sesame Street" is Willie never gets old. It's Gordon, smacking a hooker and waxing eloquent about his stable of fine b****es!