Word: gentlemanly
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...Golden Pond finally belongs to Henry Fonda, who has had to wait until the end of his life for the part of his life. As Norman he is able to bring together, in a single character, the two main strands of his talent. The old gentleman's character is grounded on the main line of Fonda's star career. The fundamental decency and intelligence that were basic to the likes of Tom load and Mr. Roberts still infuse his presence...
Into this quiet disarray bursts Randall (Jake Lamar), a schizophrenic, self-proclaimed "young gentleman of color" (this is set in 1961); an impossibly jive, cool dude who proceeds to play a tense game of thrust and parry with Mr. Glas, the store-owner, (David Reiffel). As the two are gradually getting a feel for one another, in bursts a young Jewish girl (everyone seems to burst into Slow Dance) on her way to have an abortion and about to faint...
...mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid." As MacShane observed, "Instead of his adored England, Chandler lived in a place where values seemed to shift with the tides. No wonder he clung to the code of the public school gentleman and applied it to his fictional hero as well...
...movie, alas, lacks sustained ability to haunt. Thomas provides the necessary disembodied footsteps and floor creaks, but the rest is silence. The featured ghost--not just an amorphous white cloud, but a nattily dressed gentleman named Marion--offers nothing more threatening than a few cross glares. Overabundant in tension, The Haunting of M lacks genuine fright. In the most important scenes, Marion reveals himself to be a lovesick and slightly wrathful admirer of Marianna, played with calculated flirtatiousness by Sheelagh Gilby. Indeed, in his last scenes, Marion becomes truly tender as he reaches out to Marianna, scowling jealously at those...
...wonder that James Cagney, 82, wound up in the same photograph with the gentleman to his right, Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, 54. The veteran actor was set to throw out the ceremonial first ball at last week's World Series opener. Then Kuhn invoked a policy that excludes actors and politicians from "first-ball ceremonies," and substituted former Yankee Great Joe Di Maggio, 66. Fans and press protested so loudly that Kuhn, with unaccustomed nimbleness, swiftly re-evaluated Cagney as "a national treasure" and gave his blessing for him to throw out the first ball of the second game...