Word: gentlemanly
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Four guys doing something kooky--that sounds like a teen-hormone romp. But the Space Cowboys quartet has been alive for a cumulative 261 years, and in films for 156. They're too mature to fiddle with bra straps or play with pastry. Besides, Eastwood is a gentleman of sorts, so--except for displaying the four men's naked butts, which is quite an archaeological sight--he will embarrass neither them nor us. Directing from a script by Ken Kaufman and Howard Klausner, he finds fresh breezes in familiar vectors: the residual rivalry of Frank and Hawk, the tensions between...
...fact he found plenty to rebel against in college. He bridled at the "intellectual arrogance" he encountered, at those who "wrote him off because he was a legacy kid," says his classmate Robert Birge. W. upheld the tradition of the gentleman's C; when undergraduates renounced frat life as a waste of time, he made it the center of his social life. His run-in with the law came not during an antiwar sit-in or a civil rights march but on a raucous night when he and his fraternity brothers "liberated" a Christmas wreath from a local hotel...
...eyed child, its liberal attitude and its emotion-cuing score. O.K., but we fell for it--for the deft mood setting and the canny vignettes of young love and adult rancor. Fernan Gomez, nearly 60 years in films, carries himself (and the film) with the dignity of a gifted gentleman who knows how to transmit joy and endure suffering. Butterfly is a savory cocktail with a bitter twist...
...Hollywood Reporter, decrying the curious lack of slaves in the Mel Gibson movie The Patriot, set in 1776. "While holding myself back from shouting at the screen, I kept wondering, Where are the slaves? Who's picking the cotton?" Indeed, screenwriter Robert Rodat gives Gibson's South Carolina gentleman farmer a cadre of African-American "employees" who refer to themselves as free men. "Did Rodat get his dates mixed up?" asks Spike. "The Emancipation Proclamation was 100 years away." Moviegoers learned all about that from the famously accurate Gone With the Wind...
When there's a seat open, you try to grab it. You feel bad for not being a gentleman, but on the Metro, all genders are equal. This is what those women's rights activists wanted when they burned their bras in the '60s and '70s, right? That's what we tall people tell ourselves, at least...