NOIR I is four stories: The Gold Cricket, The Bastard, Cine City, and Killer Jazz. THE GOLD CRICKET Detective Joanne Leslie has a fondness for the finer things in life, including the best cocaine money can buy. Unfortunately her lifestyle and a detective's salary don't comfortably coexist. Drug dealer Cheesy Johnston wants his money, cash he needs to replace the five thousand dollars he's paying Jake Klein to get him out of the country. What Cheesy doesn't know is Klein is a bounty hunter tasked with bringing him in for trial. THE BASTARD A Russian gangster's wife kidnaps her estranged husband's illegitimate son and murder's the Yakuza affiliated mother in order to protect her own daughter's birthright as sole heir to her husband's substantial legal and illegal business empires. As an adult the bastard son surreptitiously reappears to reclaim his share of his father's fortune. CINE CITY A-list actor, Bobby Richards hires a second-rate film producer with a