Word: gents
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...first eminence, Lemmon was usually the nice Joe--"honest, thrifty, methodical, sober, upright and really kinda dull," as he says of himself in Phffft!--getting wooed by prime kooky blonds Judy Holliday and Kim Novak. With Shirley MacLaine in The Apartment and Irma la Douce, he was the shy gent pursuing a knowing woman, the lamb trying to persuade himself to be a wolf. But the Lemmon male was more in control when surrounded by men. From early service comedies like Mister Roberts through all the films in which he played Nellie to Walter Matthau's Butch (The Fortune Cookie...
...recent Glass money pitch for public radio hijacked the form and, I am sure, brought home the bacon. He found and interviewed a well-to-do gent who had neglected to contribute to his station. "But you listen to the station. You enjoy the programs. The station pays me. Do you think I should work for nothing?" Glass asked. "Well, no, I..." the man replied. And then there followed an impossibly long pause, which just got longer and longer, and sadder and funnier...
This dimpled, soft-spoken gent is proving again what has always been true: that American cinema is nourished by the artistry and vision of foreigners (Chaplin and Garbo, Alfred Hitchcock and Billy Wilder). Lately it has been the Asians' turn to show us how films can kick higher or probe deeper. Lee's films do both...
SENATOR CHUCK GRASSLEY Finance Com chair and Iowa gent-farmer harvests enough votes to overhaul bankruptcy laws...
...encounter must have been quite a shock to render bright red a man married to Madonna, but Ritchie collects himself quickly. "Isn't he a gent?" says Ritchie, who must be used to days far stranger than this. Last month Ritchie wed Penn's ex during a five-day celebration in a remote Scottish castle. Ritchie, 32, the father of Madonna's second child, Rocco, calls the nuptials "the best five days of my life," though it was preceded by months in a burning media spotlight. Tabloids excitedly chronicled HER PLOT TO GET TOYBOY LOVER TO ALTAR. Paparazzi stalked them...