Worf
I'll Lock Up
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I think Dr. Hifalutin's days are numbered. I wouldn't want Chalky White mad at me!
I thought Chalkie's little "street play" was great. "Harlem by Torchlight"! Great!
Worf
I think Dr. Hifalutin's days are numbered. I wouldn't want Chalky White mad at me!
Welp, Nucky Thompson was real, as are all the major gangsters.. Capone, O'Banion, Massaria, Rothstien, Lansky, Luciano etc.. I think Chalkie White is ficitious as are most of the other characters.
Worf
I thought Chalkie's little "street play" was great. "Harlem by Torchlight"! Great!
Worf
Okay, is Eli selling out Nucky to save his son? If so, I hope Nucky shoots Eli before he goes down. For my money, Nucky should never have trusted Eli again anyway.
And if, as Worf says, Chalky White is a fictitious character, how did they come up his outrageous name - is that based on some historical name or a play on a historical name - it has to be?
Final thought, my money is on Chalky taking down Dr. Narcisses (it's amazing how you can find yourself rooting for the less-bad, more human bad guy over the arrantly bad, bad guy).
Great episode. Things are starting to get GOOD! Unfortunately, this is the second time they've had a main character saved at the last minute by a character off screen. The entire fight I was thinking "So when will Daughter kill Purnsley?".
Speaking of Daughter, my goodness....I'm in love.
Well, Nucky Thompson wasn't real.....but Enoch (Nucky) L. Johnson was.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch_L._Johnson
The show uses many aspects of the Real Nucky's life to portray a fictional character named Nucky Thompson. Nucky Johnson really did have a wife names Mabel who died, really did serve as county treasurer, etc.....
Chalky could be/probably is one of those derisive nicknames often given to Blacks in that era, by Whites and other Blacks as well. A particularly dark person would be called "snowflake", "chalky' or "milky" anything to call attention to their obvious pigmentation. Of course Chalky is soooo badass he dares you almost to call him that to his face. If you notice NO Blacks call Chalky "Chalky" to his face! It's always Mr. White.
Worf
I would always call him Mr. White... I like living!
One of the real characters in the show is Arnold Rothstein. He ended up being murdered in 1928 over a gambling debt. I wonder if they will work that into the show.
Thanks for the links!
I think they have been leading up to that this season as his charactor has been sepeading alot of time Gambling and losing big time.
Would not surprise me at all.