[jonascord]

There is a movie, King of the Gypsies, with Sterling Hayden in one of his last roles. It makes a case that here in the US, their style was starting to fall apart back in the '70s.

Oddly, I saw it again, just last week. It's on Kanopy, a movie site run by the library.

By the way, if some stranger knocks on your door and offers to resurface your driveway for a ridiculously low price, DON'T DO IT!

They slosh a pail of used motor oil on your drive way, and it will look good until the next time it rains and washes into the sewer. It was a scam in Central Illinois, years back, and the local popo accused a Gypsie family operating in the area. They seem to go for the Short Con.

True? Hellifino.

[Eleutheria5]

Also recommend Peaky Blinders, about Gypsies in UK organized crime in the 1920s and 30s. Fictional. But they do speak authentic Romani here and there in the TV series. No Gypsie dancing, though. The Tin Tin Belgian comic series also had one story ark in which the Captain has Gypsies camping out on his property.