Word: gentlemanly
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...Princess' mother Margaret, who gave up modeling (for magazines like Country Gentleman) after commencing her not very happy marriage to John Sr., was the unquestioned monarch of the Kelly clan. Her iron rule was to keep up appearances. There is no doubt that Grace learned much about the royalty trade from Margaret. In 1954 Grace had a serious affair with Designer Oleg Cassini, but against family wishes (he was divorced and not Catholic). Then, over Christmas of 1955, Rainier visited the Kelly mansion in Philadelphia. The unlikely joining of clans was approved...
Richard Schickel wondered how the screenwriter ever thought up such a name as Zack Mayo for the lead character in An Officer and a Gentleman...
Shortly before 9 a.m. one day last week, an expensively dressed gentleman slipped into Brooklyn federal court through a back door. Hands clasped behind him, he stood before Judge Charles Sifton and softly recited his crimes. Then, after pleading guilty, Democratic Congressman Frederick Richmond of Brooklyn agreed to resign immediately from the House of Representatives and not seek reelection to a fifth term...
...they shot the novelization instead of the screenplay. An Officer and a Gentleman works more like a paperback page turner than a film intended for the allegedly sophisticated movie audience of the '80s. It is full of bang-on melodramatics and simple, romanticized characters with carefully supplied motivations. Aside from a few delightfully dishonorable throwbacks, we haven't had moviemaking like this since the '50s, and maybe we don't want it. But what a long-denied pleasure it is to make up one's own parodies as the film unreels rather than...
...situation is a classic. Zack Mayo (How do they think up names like that?) is the son of a Navy enlisted man, whose daddy is seen elaborately not loving him in the prologue. To get back at him, Zack (Richard Gere) must become, well, "an officer and a gentleman." He enrolls in Naval Aviation Officer Candidate School, a form of organized flagellation that we are led to believe makes all other brands of basic training look like the vicar's lawn party. Underneath Zack's sullen exterior, the discerning eye can detect "the right stuff," as it were...