Word: gentleman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...comic energy, You Never Know repeatedly reminds us just how much we do know. Imagine, if you will, a mere servant attempting to love a real person. You never know, it might work out, but only when the lady or gentleman in question is not really a lady or gentleman. At every opportunity, Porter shows Gaston and Maria unable to fathom the protocol of the Penthouse...
DIED. Walter Pidgeon, 87, urbane, courtly actor for half a century in Hollywood who dignified more than 100 films, most often as a reassuring and formidable gentleman; of a stroke; in Santa Monica, Calif. Born in Canada, Pidgeon reached his peak of popularity during the 1940s and '50s when he teamed with Greer Garson for eight films, most notably Mrs. Miniver, in which he movingly portrayed the staunch father of an English family whose lives are rent by World...
...film's many vignettes of small town life. Reminiscent of Benton's work in "Kramer versus Kramer," the film reveals scenes of family life with startling simplicity and intimacy. While some of the character types are hackneyed in conception--the good hearted black man, the embittered blind gentleman--they are nonetheless made believable through skillful execution by the actors. This is indeed an ensemble performance...
...project to three studios before Columbia Pictures bought it on the condition that the director work for free instead of receiving his usual $1.5 million salary-but for Rollins it is a late second chance. Like LeVar Burton after Roots and Louis Gossett Jr. after An Officer and a Gentleman, Rollins found himself a celebrity but not a hot commodity after his Oscar-nominated role in Ragtime (1981). He did not make another feature until A Soldier's Story. "People have been a little slow to pick up the phone," he understates. "Most of the scripts...
...away at issues that might puncture the personal popularity that is among the President's prime assets. In an unusual and revealing plea, House Speaker Tip O'Neill last week begged Mondale to stop allowing himself "to be punched around by Reagan," to "stop acting like a gentleman and come out fighting, to come out slugging." Mondale indeed tried to show the fire that earned him the name Fighting Fritz during the primaries. He stripped off his jacket, pulled down his tie and pounded on the lectern. Yet even when giving impassioned speeches in his shirtsleeves, he still...