Word: broguish
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expertise with the latest high-tech artillery was unsurpassed as the original James Bond, but Sean Connery had his hands full playing Malone, the broguish cop in The Untouchables, which finished shooting last week in Chicago. "It's pretty cumbersome," says Connery of the tommy gun, one of the weapons he carries when he teams up with Crime Buster Eliot Ness, played by Kevin Costner (Silverado). But the tommy gun is one of the few things the Brian De Palma movie has in common with the vintage TV series, which ran from 1959 to 1963 and featured a jailed...
COMBINING THE TALENTS of Dudley Moore and Mary Steenburgen with those of veteran director Arthur Hiller would seem to promise, if not quite the "very different love story" described by the director, at least an effervescent romp in the style of Arthur. Unfortunately, neither Moore's broguish charm nor Steenburgen's poignant spaciness can save Romantic Comedy from its writer and director. Rather, the actors' valiant attempts to save the show make it all the more perturbing to watch. Observing cast members with their flies inadvertently unzipped for an hour and a half would, in fact, provide a comparable level...
DIED. Patrick Magee, 58, Irish actor who gave broguish voice to Samuel Beckett's muse (Krapp 's Last Tape and several other Beckett plays were written with him in mind) and a 1966 Tony winner for his Marquis de Sade in the Royal Shakespeare Company's New York City production of Marat/Sade; of a heart attack; in London. Magee supported his stage art by playing film heavies, most recently a Colonel Blimpish Olympic Committee member in 1981's Chariots of Fire...