{"id":46,"date":"2023-02-05T10:28:47","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T10:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pentelikonews.gr\/en\/?p=46"},"modified":"2023-02-05T10:28:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T10:28:47","slug":"the-grasshopper-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pentelikonews.gr\/en\/cinema-and-movies\/the-grasshopper-plot\/46\/","title":{"rendered":"The Grasshopper plot"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Christine Adams, a 19-year-old from British Columbia, Canada, moves to Los Angeles to be with her fianc\u00e9 who works at a bank. When the relationship<\/a> falls apart, she moves to Las Vegas and becomes a showgirl, where she meets Tommy Marcott, an African-American former football player and casino executive. They fall in love and get married, but flee Las Vegas after Tommy beats a wealthy patron who raped Christine. In LA, Tommy can’t find a good job and is eventually killed, likely as a result of revenge.<\/p>\n

Christine returns to Vegas, becomes a V.I.P. party girl, and is convinced by a wealthy client, Richard Morgan, to be his mistress. Bored, she starts a romantic relationship with Jay Rigney and they plan to buy a ranch together, but the plan falls apart when Richard proposes to Christine. Jay convinces Christine to work as a prostitute with him as her pimp, but he leaves her and takes their money. After promising a skyfield employee, Elroy, “some fun,” Christine goes up in a skywriting plane and writes “FUCK IT” across the sky. She and Elroy are arrested, and Christine claims to be 22.<\/p>\n

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Christine Adams, a 19-year-old from British Columbia, Canada, moves to Los Angeles to be with her fianc\u00e9 who works at a bank. When the relationship falls apart, she moves to Las Vegas…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[193],"tags":[237,195,205,242,233,231,238,241,200,217,211,224,196,197,207,208,194,239,234,199,214,206,218,220,219,225,215,202,198,209,235,210,223,227,230,226,240,232,229,228,213,201,222,216,203,236,204,243,221,212],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cinema-and-movies","tag-fuck-it","tag-19-year-old","tag-african-american","tag-age","tag-airfield-employee","tag-airport","tag-amusement","tag-arrested","tag-bank","tag-basketball-court","tag-beating","tag-bored","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-casino-executive","tag-celebrity-greeter","tag-christine-adams","tag-consternation","tag-elroy","tag-fiance","tag-flee","tag-former-pro-football-player","tag-funeral","tag-grief","tag-illicit-drugs","tag-jay-rigney","tag-job","tag-las-vegas","tag-los-angeles","tag-love","tag-marijuana-joint","tag-married","tag-mistress","tag-money","tag-pimp","tag-platonically","tag-police","tag-private-plane","tag-prostitute","tag-ranch","tag-raped","tag-relationship","tag-richard-morgan","tag-shot-dead","tag-showgirl","tag-skywriting-plane","tag-tommy-marcott","tag-twenty-two","tag-v-i-p-party-girl","tag-wealthy-casino-patron"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pentelikonews.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pentelikonews.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pentelikonews.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pentelikonews.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pentelikonews.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pentelikonews.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"https:\/\/www.pentelikonews.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/48"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pentelikonews.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pentelikonews.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pentelikonews.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pentelikonews.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}