Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conducted with 'The Band at their plush retreat, and while these sequences are prone to low-key self-congratulation, the interviews are, for the most part, interesting, amusing, and somehow tied to the following number. The personalities of The Band's members come into focus--Levon Helm, the Southern gentleman who grins and shies away from saying too much about the women on the road; Danko cracking jokes and showing off the house; and Robertson, the seasoned storyteller, recounting the history of the group...
...year-old Bahamian. The chef who takes over in Atlanta confides that he is "25 years, six months and five days old." Not that the old guard has changed entirely. Grizzled Luther King, the black sleeping-car porter who replaces Fox in Atlanta, is a kindly, dignified gentleman, typical of the old Pullman employee. He has worked the rails since 1942, when he made $150 a month; now he makes a guaranteed $11,000 a year. Still he has to be away from home five days each week...
...GENTLEMAN TRAMP Directed and Written by Richard Patterson
...course, what the movie tells us about Chaplin that interests us the most. One of the several good things about Richard Patterson's neatly made compilation-documentary, The Gentleman Tramp, is the way it juxtaposes scenes from Chaplin's pictures and autobiographical material. What one gathers from viewing the Patterson film and A Woman of Paris is that the two male figures in the latter represent two contradictory sides of Chaplin's nature, which he tried to gloss over. Purviance's first love is an artist, but rather a bourgeois one. His mother shares his garret...
...perhaps even more crucial training for Cauthen began years before. He was reared, his mother says, "to be polite to everyone and to have good table manners." Put it another way: to be a gentleman, to be a gentle person. Human beings may or may not detect this quality, but a Thoroughbred race horse ?willful and fragile, high-strung and intuitive?certainly does...