Word: gents
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...strung-out video-store proprietress played by Cate Blanchett) he's the toxic puppeteer of Rowan Woods' eye-opening Cabramatta-set crime thriller. Woods, the edgy social realist director of The Boys (1998), saw it as a challenge to reinvent the star. "He's nearly always the distinguished gent," says Woods, "as opposed to this, where he's - how can I describe...
...brand name of Providence. An apt choice, since Neill is the most accidental of actors. It was while directing documentaries for the New Zealand National Film Unit that he was asked by director Gillian Armstrong to audition for My Brilliant Career (perhaps she saw something of landed gent Harry Beecham in Neill, whose family founded one of the New Zealand's largest liquor importers). And it was while filming a TV costume drama in Melbourne a few years later that he was phoned by actor James Mason and flown to London to be groomed as a star. "I was never...
...GENT SHKULLAKU/AFP-Getty Images Roma in Albania...
...Mostly, men shop for women. For instance, in midtown Manhattan - a place that puts its astonishing variety of female beauty on display for any idle ambler - the streets are our mall. Walking is our browsing. Sometimes the proliferation of pulchritude is so intense, a gent can get swivel-necked from simple appreciation. It's a pastime for any man, including the mild-mannered, happily married and legally faithful; and it isn't an act of male predation. Just the reverse: it's fealty, an acknowledgment that women have a power over men, which can be ignited at the turn...
...time. The movie wants to entertain and educate, not leer, about people flummoxed by participating in a revolution they had meant only to calibrate, and at that it succeeds handsomely. Kinsey is like its hero's work: an enlightening lecture on a naughty subject, briskly delivered by a nice gent in a bow tie. --By Richard Corliss