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...never felt like the Everyman. I felt like the smart-ass outsider. I still have guys over to watch football on Sunday. I do have a butler. P. Diddy had a butler who carried an umbrella over his head, and I thought, I'd love to have a butler. He waters my tomatoes. He's putting my home movies...
...from Pittsburgh, Pa., could tap like a demon (he did a terrific trio with the Nicholas Brothers in The Pirate), but Kelly's real aspiration was to create a fully American form of dance: ballet with machismo. Compared with the slim, elegant Astaire, Kelly was Everyman, all man. And for a wonderful while, he did it all: sang, danced, acted, choreographed and directed. Singin' in the Rain is his masterpiece, but there's lots more to savor in Robert Trachtenberg's excellent...
...Gehry and using some of this material in the film. Despite his own successful career - full disclosure here, I?ve known Pollack casually for many years and employed him as the impeccable narrator of a number of my own documentary films - and he presents himself as an earnestly inquiring everyman, knowing but not expert, and willing to mention creative issues that have arisen in his life that are comparable to ones that Gehry has dealt with...
...Roth's credit that he cannot quite bring himself to write a book as dull and flat as Everyman's concept seems to demand. His style repeatedly breaks its leash, as at the funeral, when the protagonist's brother gives a moving eulogy and his estranged son struggles violently against unbidden grief. But then the narrator interjects that there had been 500 funerals in New Jersey that day and that except for the aforementioned moments, this one was "no more or less interesting than any of the others." It's an astonishing passage: an author arguing, against the evidence...
...licking his forearm to taste his skin fresh from the ocean and baked by the sun." And Roth conjures an understated, haunting set piece in which the man visits the cemetery and chats with the affable worker who will soon dig his grave. These are glimpses of the Everyman whose story would have been more powerful had Roth made him more than merely an every body...