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Recent Examples of bootlegger
The dynamic echoed commercial theater’s current love affair with missing-the-point adaptations of The Great Gatsby, a Faust story of its own with a bootlegger as the Devil.
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Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 1 Aug. 2024
Among the additions to season two is Simu Liu as the voice of Chang, a charming bootlegger from a powerful family who can been seen above in the first-look clip that is exclusive to THR.
—Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Sep. 2024
Simon, a cassette tape bootlegger — how’s that for period detail! — played by Jason Andrews is struggling to hold his life together when he is visited by a woman from his past (Eddie Daniels) with startling news that sends him on an emotional journey.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2024
According to Cornell Law School, civil forfeiture comes from English law and was popular both in the days of Prohibition, when law enforcement would seize the property of bootleggers in order to slow the production and sale of alcohol, and during the War on Drugs in the 1980s.
—Samantha Stutsman, Peoplemag, 11 Sep. 2024
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Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 1 Aug. 2024
Among the additions to season two is Simu Liu as the voice of Chang, a charming bootlegger from a powerful family who can been seen above in the first-look clip that is exclusive to THR.
—Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Sep. 2024
Simon, a cassette tape bootlegger — how’s that for period detail! — played by Jason Andrews is struggling to hold his life together when he is visited by a woman from his past (Eddie Daniels) with startling news that sends him on an emotional journey.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2024
According to Cornell Law School, civil forfeiture comes from English law and was popular both in the days of Prohibition, when law enforcement would seize the property of bootleggers in order to slow the production and sale of alcohol, and during the War on Drugs in the 1980s.
—Samantha Stutsman, Peoplemag, 11 Sep. 2024
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“Bootlegger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bootlegger. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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