1.   Critics attack Vice President Joseph Estrada as a drinking, gambling, womanizing buffoon with ties to underworld characters and old-regime cronies.

2.   Leigh will portray Blondie, a telegraph operator and wife of a small-time underworld character.

3.   She also referred to the other underworld characters by fanciful street names.

4.   The works were published under the pen name Abram Tertz, the name of a fictional underworld character.

5.   Thaksin was acting on international complaints that Thailand is a haven for underworld characters in search of fake passports used subsequently to carry out crimes overseas.