This suits me nicely, as I like
both highbrow and lowbrow; Bad Lieutenant is a nice mixture of both, but
far from middlebrow. Nicolas Cage stars as Terence McDonagh, a cop of dubious morality
and ethics but who is always trying to actually do his job, for better or
worse. His practices, which include bullying old ladies (in a scene that can
rightfully be described as delightful), hanging out with his prostitute
girlfriend (Eva Mendes), taking sexual advantage of perpetrators of minor
crimes as an alternative to taking them to jail, and doing any kind of drugs he
can get, be they prescription or hard street drugs (there’s more than one
extended crack-smoking sequence in this film), eventually get him into trouble,
and he spends the bulk of the movie either trying to redeem himself or to use
his position to get away with being a criminal himself; this distinction is
left up to the viewer.

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After Mandina’s and a ridiculous amount of delicious food, we make our way downtown. We pass through the remnants of a once-vibrant section of the city, past dilapidated relics of Dad’s childhood, including the site of his high school prom, where Professor Longhair provided the entertainment. We coast past a former Pontiac dealership where, Dad tells me, his grandmother used to buy all her cars.
We come down Canal street and loop behind the hotel on Iberville where a Vikings fan, clad in a Favre jersey, hears two “Who Dat” chants from the other side of the street. It’s rather friendly taunting. Southern hospitality-hostility, I suppose.
A quick tour of Bourbon Street is in order before dinner. In the doorway to my left is a pot-bellied stripper, chatting pleasantly with a New Orleans police officer. A little further down the street are a couple of painted men. The silver guy is familiar to me, but the gold guy is new. They put on their robotic show to amusement, some uneasiness and plenty of camera flashes. This is when I first notice the throngs of Saints jerseys around me. They are everywhere.

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German director Werner Herzog’s Bad Lieutenant depicts New Orleans as a gloomy character trapped beneath otherworldly clouds of doom. Poverty, drugs and death rule the traumatized city. As the town crawls back from oblivion, neither funky brass bands nor second lines nor elated chants of “Who ’dat!” are heard.
Filmed in large part in New Orleans, Bad Lieutenant’s look, characters and voices do indeed reflect the place. Cage, a fan of the city and frequent visitor, even delivers the correct local pronunciation of Burgundy Street. 
A great example of no good deed going unpunished, Cage’s Lt. Terence McDonagh injures his back when he jumps into the flooded parish jail to rescue a trapped prisoner. Afterward, he soothes his pain through prescribed and non-prescribed pain killers and whatever hard stuff he can score by whatever means necessary.
In addition to his drug use, McDonagh is a high-stakes gambler and boyfriend to Frankie, a coke-sniffing prostitute played by Eva Mendes. His judgment impaired, the detective hurls himself into an escalating series of deadly situations.

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South Florida bars, strip clubs, casinos to profit
It may be the all-American sporting event, but the Super Bowl has a, ahem, racier side, and South Florida businesses catering to bawdier pleasures expect to be riding its glitzy coattails to ample profit.
Hotels, restaurants, taxis and tourist traps all stand to score big with the Super Bowl crowd. But so do purveyors of hedonism: bars, casinos, bookies and strip clubs.
“It’s gonna be wild,” said Joe Rodriguez, owner of three upscale strip clubs. “We’re putting on more security people, we’re putting on more waitresses. We’re trying to get as many dancers as we can to come in.”

The manager at Johnny’s, a gay strip club in Fort Lauderdale, expects double the number of usual patrons on Sunday, and 40 more dancers will bump and grind across the stage that day.
“We’re gonna be fully loaded,” said AJ Cross. “What’s Super Bowl Sunday without strippers?”

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The Panties Pool You’ve seen those office pools they do for football games, right? It’s a grid of boxes, with 0-9 going down and 0-9 going across. Then people write their names inside the boxes and then one set of numbers is for one team, and one is for the other. So, say, at the end of the first quarter, the score is 10 – 7, the Saints, then you would go to that square, and that person would win. You can do the same. But instead of putting in names in the squares, you put SEX ACTS. So, whoever wins, REALLY wins. And it’s up to you to be as nice or as naughty as you want.
You can have the prizes be anything your little heart desires. From kissing to an erotic massage, he owes you oral sex. From you wearing THAT school girl outfit, to him doing THAT dance he does naked. (Um, whatever you two do…)

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Now the Saints are going to the Super Bowl®. Governor Jindal proclaimed this week Who Dat Nation Week, and Who Dat t-shirts are flying off the shelves in New Orleans as well as in Florida, where the Big Game® will be played.
The NFL, in its capacity as agent for the member teams, sent out cease and desist letters in both locales, asserting ownership by the Saints of, among other trademarks, Who Dat.
Mistake. Seemingly every elected official in New Orleans defended the shirt sellers culminating with Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) (yes, that Senator Vitter) who wrote the NFL to indicate that he was printing up his own “Who Dat say we can’t print WHO Dat” shirts.
Practice pointer: try to avoid situations where an alleged patron of prostitutes can take a holier-than-thou stance with regard to your client.

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The strippers of the U.S. are uniting their efforts in rooting for the New Orleans Saints, mainly because they’re guessing Jeremy Shockey will spend copious amounts of money if he is victorious.
Without actually saying that Jeremy Shockey frequented her establishment while he was with the Giants, Cynthia said Shockey frequented her establishment while he was with the Giants.

Personally, I’m not a fan of strip clubs.  In my eyes, you might as well take a stack of money and burn it, because that is precisely what you’re doing.  You could argue you leave the place more frustrated than when you arrived.
Jeremy Shockey looks like a strip club guy.  Greasy hair, dips all the time, tattoos covering most visible pieces of his arms, pack of cigarettes rolled up in his sleeve, etc.  You get the picture.

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4 The cute factor could go way down — We all love the Puppy Bowl on Animal Planet, but CBS should buy the rights to it. Then air it before the game and have Mike Vick play the referee. If he snaps at one of the canines, the NFL should ban him for life. If he keeps his cool, we’ll let him suit up for the Bills or Rams — not sure which outcome is worse.
5 Let us hear — Mike up the players. The most fun we’ve ever had watching Peyton Manning wasn’t in the AFC championship when he carved up the Jets midway through the game. It was when NFL Films caught him cursing out Jeff Saturday in a regular-season game. Of course, we had to wait weeks for that to surface. Just give it to us live.
6 ‘The Hangover,’ NFL edition — Uh, put it in Vegas. Why has this not happened yet? It would be especially beneficial in a game with a huge underdog. After a week of strippers, booze and nonstop gambling by the heavy favorites, we’d have a level playing field come Super Bowl Sunday.

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Joe Montana cemented his reputation as “Joe Cool” with a last-minute, 92-yard winning drive on a pass to John Taylor with 34 seconds left in the 49ers’ 20-16 victory. It was the final game Bill Walsh coached, and it capped a remarkable scene of fires in parts of the city earlier in the week mixed with perhaps the fieriest ending in Super Bowl history.
On the eve of Super Bowl XXXIII in 1999, Atlanta safety Eugene Robinson was arrested as part of a sting operation on Miami’s Biscayne Boulevard when he solicited sex from an undercover cop posing as a prostitute. Earlier that day, Robinson had been feted with the Bart Starr Award from Athletes In Action for “high moral character.” Robinson played on Super Bowl Sunday but was burned by John Elway on an 80-yard touchdown pass to Rod Smith. The Broncos went on to win 34-19 as MVP Elway ended his career with back-to-back titles.

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They came in frocks, miniskirts and flowing purple robes; in fishnet tights, high heels and feather boas; hulking XXL-sized men revealing voluminous midriffs and adjusting lopsided boobs as they minced and sashayed from the Superdome to the French Quarter. They chanted the war cry of their beloved football team: “Who dat? Who dat? Who dat say they gonna beat them Saints?” Crowds of onlookers packed the streets, whooping in delight.
Mardi Gras has come early to New Orleans this year. Life has been one riotous, non-stop celebration since January 24, when the Saints reached the Super Bowl for the first time in their 43-year history with a last-gasp victory over the Minnesota Vikings.
From the tablecloths in its Cajun restaurants to the tassels of its strippers’ bikinis, the city is decked out in the team’s black and gold colours. Its musicians have composed dozens of songs in their honour. Priests wear Saints shirts in place of their vestments and give thanks for the team in their churches. Umpteen improvised versions of When the Saints Go Marching In blast from bars, stores and car speakers. Truly, the good times are rolling again.

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