Word: garner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...singer. Victoria (Julie Andrews) who is befriended by a failing gay nightclub entertainer. Toddy (Robert Preston). He appreciates her vocal talents and realizes how to market her. She becomes Victor, a delicate, unknown member of the Eastern European nobility who is Paris's greatest female impersonator. Enter King (James Garner), a Chicago gangster who becomes Victoria's love interest but refuses to accept the label of homosexuality his low-life companions attach to him because of his association with "Victor." Complications ensue...
Stylistically, the film is a cultural hodge-podge filled with misplaced Americanisms and out of context references. Andrews and Garner discuss "relationships" as only post-1960's lovers would, and her career versus marriage conflict seems equally anachronistic. Henry Mancini's lavish musical numbers are supposedly the main attraction for a decadent nightclub, but his pieces are hardly very risque Yet the plot and competent acting hold Victor Victoria together...
WITH A LITTLE IMAGINATION Julie Andrews almost appears masculine, although her delicate features and slim jaw make David Bowie resemble some of the heftier Hasty Pudding hoofers by comparison. But the premise and the setting render nothing unbelievable and Ms. Andrews. Edward's wife, is a fine comedienne. With Garner as her straight man. Andrews jumps elegantly from wicked, flirtatious girl to mock-elegant Victor. Her more serious moments, played with her friend and protector Toddy, portray a woman getting toughened by necessity and occur infrequently. Sadness and loneliness have no place in light comedy, but these occasional exhausted...
Things get really delirious when James Garner, as a determinedly heterosexual gangster from Chicago, falls for her/him. "I'm not a man!" she cries when he finally embraces her. "I don't care if you are," he replies. As he squires her around, the world is bound either to mistake him for a homosexual or learn the truth about her, which will destroy a very promising career. To further complicate matters, the gangster's bodyguard (sweetly played by former Detroit Lions Tackle Alex Karras), encouraged by what he takes to be a conversion by his master, comes...
Instead one Crimson weapon squad after another capitulated--with the usually powerful, epee squad losing all nine boute. Even epee star Steve Kauffer, previously undefeated in season combel, was unable to garner a single bout...