Word: frenchman
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...could do to keep from crying," he recalled later. "Even though I know that I can portray an 18th-century Frenchman if the role called for it, every time I go to an audition I feel they're looking at me only as a skin color." Hail feels that any actor should be allowed to audition for any role as long as he can make the characterization believable. "Besides," he says, "part of my and every other Afro-American's cultural experience is white, which makes me artistically capable of playing a white...
...nomad I am from America, he reaches to his side in a mock draw and with a big grin exclaims. "John Wayne!" Now. back in the U.S.. a South African tourist asks me if I know that John Wayne is dead. He heard the news from a Frenchman...
...time to leave a party, he is likely to tilt his head and roll his eyes in the direction of the door. In France, the signal is sharper: a chopping motion by one hand against the opposite wrist. Cupping the palms upward against the rib cage is a Frenchman's way of indicating that a woman is well endowed. The gesture is sometimes rendered as Il y a du monde au balcon, which translates as "There is a crowd in the balcony...
...Little Romance, Olivier has another crusty character role: a suave old coot of a Frenchman who plays fairy godfather to a pair of star-crossed lovers who are just 13. He is in delightful fettle and creates one classic bit, a gasping fit while reading a newspaper. Yet this is one latter-day Olivier film that has more going for it than its star. Director George Roy Hill (Butch Cassidy, The Sting) and Screenwriter Allan Burns (cocreator of TV's original Mary Tyler Moore Show) have constructed a romantic comedy that, for all its contrivances, offers an indecent amount...
...Frenchman's suit will not be the first of its kind heard in Soviet courts; particularly in the late 1950s and early 1960s, hundreds of citizens of the U.S.S.R. and many foreigners who had been unjustly imprisoned had filed successful damage claims against the government. Genrikh Rubezhov, 50, the Moscow lawyer assigned to Maloumian's case, has tried more than a score of similar suits and has won them...