Word: cameos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cullen Gerst's "just-the-facts" cameo as a gay waiter is refreshing because it contrasts so sharply with the rest of the performances. At one point Bruce exclaims, "Mrs. Wallace could give me lithium, she could give you speed; we could meet somewhere in the middle." I wish this production had learned some-thing from that...
This type of self-criticism and analysis will be familiar to readers of Small World and Changing Places, as will the characters of Phillip Swallow and Morris Zapp, who both play cameo roles here...
There is a good bit of manicured savagery in songs like New York Minute and If Dirt Were Dollars ("I was flyin' back from Lubbock/ I saw Jesus on the plane/ . . . or maybe it was Elvis/ You know, they kinda look the same"), and a memorably nasty cameo portrait of Ronald Reagan as a cowboy named Jingo in Little Tin God. That's vintage Henley, delivered with a snarl and a smile, but The Heart of the Matter, which ends the record, is the struggle for a different sense of place, another state of grace: "I've been tryin...
Here he is plastering rouge on the Old Hollywood corpse. In the heyday of the studio system, few stars were given the chance of controlling their cinematic fate. Lawrence Kasdan, who directed Costner in The Big Chill (where , his substantial role was cut to a few cameo shots as a corpse) and Silverado, compares the actor with Steve McQueen. "Like McQueen," Kasdan notes, "Kevin has a real sense of what he can do. He has always known what's really important for him, rather than what others think is important...
Indy 3, like Raiders, features airplane stunts, a brawl on a careering vehicle and a sacred quest: a search for the Holy Grail, the cup Jesus used at the Last Supper. The film expands the role of Denholm Elliott as a museum curator and tosses in a cameo appearance by Adolf Hitler, who autographs Henry's Grail diary. A new twist is Elsa (capable Alison Doody), a blond sorceress poised between greed and glory. She is an Indy gone wrong, and the series' first indispensable female...