Word: cagneys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sartre listed but not Camus? Why Norman Mailer but not Saul Bellow or John Updike? Leonardo but not Michelangelo? Venereal disease but not AIDS? Why Beverly Hills but not St. Louis? Cole Porter but not Leonard Bernstein? Muammar Gaddafi but not Francois Mitterrand? Bogart but not Olivier or even Cagney? Such questions guarantee that the book will indeed spur discussions all summer long, but perhaps not the ones the author intended...
...SADDEST GOODBYES The world's farewells to Cary Grant, who died at the age of 82, and James Cagney...
Crusading professionals are out in force on TV screens again this fall, but most seem untouched by the winds of change. CBS's Kay O'Brien, about a female surgeon, is Dr. Kildare crossed with Cagney & Lacey. In ABC's Jack and Mike, a newspaper columnist rushes to help folks in trouble while trying to keep her marriage afloat, a yuppie update of Hart to Hart. In CBS's Downtown, a tough cop gets crime-fighting help from four oddball parolees, a sort of B-Team. In addition to the routine fare, however, Bochco and Mann are introducing second- generation...
...George's point of view while filming it in a style as fancy and knowing as Simone's. No wonder audiences have taken to this gritty romance as to a mongrel puppy; for at heart Mona Lisa is an old-fashioned poor-soul weepie, and George is less a Cagney rakehell than a Chaplin tramp. Ever clever, though, Jordan massages the viewer's sentimentality like Simone servicing a dim, fond client...
...Cagney's own acting technique was not concerned with size or scale. "Want some advice from the old man?" he once inquired of a desperate newcomer. "Walk in, plant yourself, look the other fellow in the eye and tell the truth." That...