Word: dreamboats
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...budding painter and middling bassist, may seem a long shot for rock immortality. He died at 22, months before the group, which he had earlier quit, cut its first record. But according to Backbeat, Stu was the dreamboat heart of the combo and John Lennon (Ian Hart) was its soul. Paul McCartney (Gary Bakewell) and George Harrison (Chris O'Neill) only whined and purred, respectively, while Lennon and Sutcliffe did the heavy lifting. John, you see, was Liverpool's own angry young man and the sole creator of this proto-punk, ur-grunge band (don't you love revisionism...
...acting also rings true. Michael Madsen, with those dreamboat blue eyes and that Elvis-like carraige that we fell in love with in "Thelma and Louise," drives us crazy as the homicidally insane Mr. Blonde...
...Lewis gallery grew. He earned an Oscar for best actor as Christy Brown, the Irish painter and writer crippled by cerebral palsy, in the 1989 My Left Foot. He reached dreamboat status as Hawkeye in The Last of the Mohicans (1992). And in his last two films, another rep-company parlay. He is Newland Archer, the sensitive 1870s New York City lawyer, in Martin Scorsese's rapturously sedate The Age of Innocence. He is Irish hell-raiser Gerry Conlon, framed and imprisoned with his saintly dad (Oscar nominee Pete Postlethwaite) for an I.R.A. bombing, in Jim Sheridan...
...Pavese--in the original. He's not wearing a baseball cap, his jeans have been laundered within the past three months, and you think to yourself, "I could go for that." Two hours later, you head off to section and who happens to saunter into the room but the dreamboat from the cafe. But instead of sitting with the rest of the students, he walks up to the front of the class and introduces himself as your TF. Great. Now you'll be spending the rest of the semester biting your fingernails in the throes of unfulfilled coital agony...
...Money. They flew to the Caribbean to join him in a frothy Cocktail. They traveled with him on a cross- country journey to fraternal reconciliation in Rain Man. And with each adventure, audiences adjusted their estimation of the young man -- from Most Likely to Succeed to All-American Dreamboat to Serious Actor worth taking seriously...