Word: cagneys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...entirely too young for this sort of award. "What do they mean by 'lifetime achievement?' " asked the 62-year-old composer-conductor. "I'm just beginning." Onetime Stage Queen Lynn Fontanne had no such quibble; she turned 93 on the evening she joined Bernstein, Actor James Cagney, 81, Choreographer Agnes de Mille, 71, and Soprano Leontyne Price, 53, in receiving a coveted Kennedy Center honor for career achievement in the performing arts. At weekend-long festivities that included a musical tribute at the Kennedy Center, star-struck Washingtonians clustered around such visiting Hollywood idols as John Travolta...
Also: Pat Boone, James Cagney, Connie Francis, Milton Friedman, Lionel Hampton, Jack LaLanne, Michael Landon, Dean Martin, Eugene McCarthy, Ginger Rogers, James Stewart, Gloria Swanson...
Rowlands' young costar, John Adames, was all of seven when Gloria was filmed. But even now he possesses the dark good looks of a gnome gigolo. His mannerisms seem as if the director might have bought them at a movie-memorabilia shop: gestures from Cagney, a voice as wispy as Peter Lorre's, sardonic smiles from the early John Cassavetes. But they are perfectly suitable to the slapdash style and gravelly tone of a film that uses Method acting to conceal, and then reveal, the workings of a soft old Hollywood heart...
...director, Milos Forman, to the owner of the 800-acre New York cattle farm near Forman's place in Warren, Conn. "Well," replied the farmer after considerable reflection, "let's do it." And so, 20 years after his "final" screen appearance in One, Two, Three, James Cagney, 81, was back before the cameras last week in Brooklyn, looking spry in the turn-of-the-century waxed mustache and muttonchops of New York City Police Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo. Said the old hardy hoofer: "The doctors said I should do something to keep me busy...
...Fade to Black, Christopher is a psychotic who works in a Hollywood film warehouse and gets his jollies by disguising himself as famous movie bad guys and bumping people off. While emulating Richard Widmark in Kiss of Death, he pushes an aunt down a flight of stairs. As James Cagney in White Heat!, he machine-guns a Hollywood producer. Then comes the grand finale atop Graumann's Chinese Theater, but that's another story. Says Christopher of his role reversal from All-American boy to cinema psychopath: "I don't intend to make a career of playing...