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  • n  a run-down hotel

  • Mikey (Peter Falk) comes to the rescue of his best friend Nicky (John Cassavetes), who has shot a bookie and is holed up in a fleabag Philly hotel, going crazy.
  • Fatigue, crowded sleeping quarters (in fleabag hotels and charitable institutions), and uncleanliness help make the hoboes TB-prone.
  • Instead, he parlayed the serendipitous purchase of a Texas fleabag into a multimillion-dollar hotel empire that earned him the moniker "innkeeper to the world.
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  • Curtis Sliwa in CTV.ca
    In Toronto I got the fleabag treatment -- I might as well have been a terrorist of al Qaeda,Angels founder Curtis Sliwa said Monday after spending more than an hour with officials at the Calgary Police Service. "Here, I was given the royal...

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