In Simenon’s “Red Lights,” a middle-class marriage unravels as a couple makes a Labor Day drive to pick up their kids at summer camp, while Goodis’ “The Blonde on the Street Corner” focuses on a down-and-outer who loses “all hoping for a cleaner better life.”

I didn’t want it to be a complete down-and-outer.

Irish playwright Conor McPherson’s popular drama of a down-and-outer who takes in a battered woman gets its third D.C. area staging in two seasons, this time from Scena Theatre.

Powell played a down-and-outer living as a derelict on the East River.

Holly Woodlawn, a transgender actress who achieved underground stardom with her affecting performance as a starry-eyed down-and-outer in the 1970 film “Trash,” died on Sunday in Los Angeles.