Word: fops
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks ago I finally admitted that Blankie had really begun to smell. The stench in my room wasn't coming just from my roommate's rain pants left over from FOP. Maybe Blankie wouldn't have minded if I washed him just once...
...pitfall in this strategy, it is that American actors are defter at explosions than at epigrams. They are not trained, as the English are, to coil themselves in hauteur. So at times Malkovich plays the evil dandy too diligently; on his brow you can almost see the fop sweat. Then gradually he learns to trust the intimacy of Frears' close-up camera style. The lizard eyes crease with desire; tiny curlicues of smirk rise from the corners of his mouth; the wispy voice locates the moral malaise at the heart of Valmont's debauchery. He embodies the cynical wisdom...
Flote vies with the penitents for the benediction of the Church, personified by the Archbishop Monselet (Panayotis Agapitos), who ultimately favors Flote to spite his grave assistant, Father Toulon (Stefan Howells). Monselet is a purple-clad fop whose sole concern is for his own safety, and Agapitos' performance is as biting as it is hysterical...
Jackson is cherished by colleagues for his talents as a raconteur and his invariable appearance in braces (never suspenders). His eye-catching collection includes pairs with fox-hunting scenes and depictions of disporting nudes. "I wore braces even in combat," says Jackson cheerily. "Once a fop, always a fop...
...commissioning the Requiem. Similarly, the two main actors, chosen from a thousand who auditioned for the roles, must follow different circuits to their roles. Hulce, who may be remembered by movie fans as the prime nerd in National Lampoon's Animal House, must stride on-screen as a fop manqué, pinwheeling his arrogance, before the audience can find the obsession at the core of his genius. Hulce prepared for the role by practicing piano four hours a day. "After that," he says, "all I felt like doing was dancing and drinking all night-just like Mozart...