Word: gents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Shoumatoff gives less space to Anglo culture, but he does introduce the reader to Stanley Marsh, the whimsical gent who buried 10 baby blue Cadillacs on end near Amarillo, Texas, and to New Age purveyors of what he accurately calls hooey in Sedona, Ariz. For the refried Spanish architecture mandatory in the tonier quarter of Santa Fe, N.M., he borrows a glorious slur from an exasperated architect that the regional hothead Edward Abbey could have said more noisily but not better: Taco Deco...
...with supercool terping that recalls Travolta, Tommy Tune and a little Ann Miller. A dance solo like this is the stuff star careers are made of. Kevin Kline may never reach Cruisean heights, but this old boy can still bust a move. In In & Out he's a sweet gent with a Broadway gypsy in his soul...
...Stewart often played a bitter Moses leading settlers to the far country he could never call home? Or the slick rural attorney in Otto Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder, a little too comfortable with the trial's lurid voyeurism? Or the hero of Hitchcock's Vertigo, a broken gent for whom an obsession with a corpse is the most fulfilling romantic release? Or the frontier lawyer in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, uneasy with the heroic legends printed about...
...Russian musical died with Stalin, but the '50s and '60s saw a little bloom in Soviet-bloc musicals that were much more in step with Hollywood films. In three 1965 movies you'll see a dapper gent figure-skating around a woman in her bedroom (the Czech-East German The Wayward Wife), a DayGlo-bright production number in a spa (Woman on the Rails, Czechoslovakia), a Bulgarian Connie Francis in full taunt (The Antique Coin). But the syncopated clock was ticking; Commusicals fizzled out, as Hollywood song shows did, in the early...
DIED. JAMES ("Jimmy the Gent") BURKE, 64, clotheshorse, gangster and suspected mastermind of the $6 million Lufthansa heist of 1978; of cancer; in Buffalo, New York. Robert De Niro played Burke in the film Goodfellas...