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Tall, Dark and Handsome Slums in Gotham City
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76 Tall, Dark and Handsome Slums in Gotham City for Cesar Romero (1907–1994) Beware the poison gas boutonniére of an aging Latin heartthrob. For I have covered my mustache in pancake and traded pomade for green wig. Cubans at 60 get no work in this town. So I pull up my purple satin pants button my yellow spats and hold my head back for makeup. The MGM contracts are gone. No more Carmen Miranda in Havana. No dancing with Betty Grable in the Rockies. I’ve traded Marlene Dietrich for Catwoman. My days may find me as Joker but Butch the lothario eats on his own tab tonight. ...