Word: gardenias
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Best Actor Michael Douglas William hurt Marcello Mastroianni Jack Nicholson Robin WilliamsBest Actress Cher Glenn Close Holly Hunter Sally Kirkland Meryl Streep Best Supporting Actor Albert Brooks Sean Connery Morgan Freeman Vincent Gardenia Denzel Washington Best Supporting Actress Norma Aleandro Anne Archer Olympia Dukakis Anne Ramsey Ann Sothern Best Director Bernardo Bertolucci John Boorman Lasse Hallstrom Adrian Lyne Norman Jewison Best Picture Broadcast News Fatal Attraction Hope and Glory The Last Emperor Moonstruck Gary L. Susman Arts Editor Michael Douglas Cher Sean Connery Olympia Dukakis Bernardo Bertolucci Broadcast News Aline Brosh Arts Staff WriterMichael Douglas Holly Hunter Sean Connery Olympia...
Cher's father is Vincent Gardenia. Gardenia is one of the movie's highlights. Charming and reticent, he is a plumber with a gift for words. His own senile father, however is a bit too much of a stereotype...
...beguiling romantic comedy this side of Broadcast News. Strains of Dean Martin's That's Amore -- "When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie" -- fill the Brooklyn night. A full moon illuminates Loretta Castorini (Cher) and all her family. Everybody falls in love. Her father (Vincent Gardenia), who claims he can't fall asleep because "it's too much like death," slinks out for a bit of tart on the side. Loretta's mother (Olympia Dukakis) dines furtively with a professor (John Mahoney) who keeps striking out with his prettiest students...
Little Shop is the story of Seymour Krelborn (Rick Moranis), a nebbishy orphan raised by a nearly bankrupt Skid Row florist, Mr. Mushnik (Vincent Gardenia). Seymour spends each day slaving away in Mushnik's shop, kept alive by his two loves: botany and Audrey (Ellen Greene), the dipsy platinum blonde store clerk. One day Seymour buys a mysterious plant from a Chinese merchant--a plant we later learn has come from outer space with intent to conquer the world...
...keep a variety of styles because they all reflect different sides of me. I've always loved rock 'n' roll. I'm not a manufactured product. I've made a point of changing." Changes are fine, of course. Just as long as the gardenia stays fresh...