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...very young (26) Gary Cooper making an early film appearance in Wings (1927), and in a still from The Picture of Dorian Gray, we finally see what Dorian's naughty escapades did to that portrait in his attic. Sennett has the perhaps obligatory shot of James Cagney pushing a grapefruit in Mae Clarke's face from The Public Enemy, for example, but he also reproduced the film's less familiar last scene: Cagney's dead body lying at his brother's feet. Such surprises not only make for great movies, but for good books about...
...this Tony Montana where he picked up his pretty good English, and Tony, a Cuban washed ashore in the 1980 wave of 125,000 refugees, smiles up at them roguishly and says, "My father ta'e me to the movies. I watch the guys like Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, I learn how to spe' from those guys. I li'e those guys." To each his own American dream. Tony (Al Pacino) and his pal Manolo (Steven Bauer) have different takes on that vision. Manny has a modest, ranch-house version: "I'd like my own blue...
Charles Aznavour still looks great at 58, with his small, powerful body sheathed in black, his ready-for-anything Cagney stance, the pouty lower lip that all chansonniers are issued at birth. Ever the actor as singer, he will poke or sculpt the air to give physical shape to a lyric; at the end of a song he may waltz or lurch into the wings. Mostly he stands at center stage and sing-talks one of the more than 1,000 ballads he has written. These are songs of subterranean emotions, of dreams and fears and guilty secrets. The best...
...seat Louis B. Mayer Memorial Theater for the showing of first-run movies, though not all the new movies sit well with the residents. "When they start to get into bed," said Mae Clarke, who is remembered best for having a grapefruit shoved in her face by James Cagney in Public Enemy in 1931, "I walk...
...deterred by the electric chair." Some might be encouraged. "For every person for whom the death penalty is a deterrent," says Stanford Psychiatry Professor Donald Lunde, "there's at least one for whom it is an incentive." Such murderers, says Amsterdam, "are attracted by the Jimmy Cagney image of 'live fast, die young and have a beautiful corpse...