Word: gere
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gravity Boots first started becoming popular after the 1980 film American Gigolo showed Star Richard Gere doing a heels-over-head workout. Subsequent features on the boots on television shows like PM Magazine further boosted sales. Says Gravity Guidance President Bryce Martin, 30: "The movie was really the first time anybody had ever heard of the boots, and we were swamped with orders from all over the country...
Richard Schickel writes that Zack Mayo (Richard Gere) "emerges as a man worthy of having a few million bucks' worth of F-111." Zack is in the Navy, so he should be flying Navy. Why not give him an F14? The F-111 belongs to the Air Force...
...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...
...will cheer and men will weep (and vice versa) when Zack passes all the tests the Navy and the opposite sex can devise and emerges as a man worthy of having a few million bucks' worth of F-111 in his hands, not to mention a lovely bride. Gere and Winger play this nonsense as if neither one of them had ever seen an old-fashioned military romance, and bless their youthful innocence, perhaps they haven't. Director Hackford, however, surely has, since he demonstrates an encyclopedic eye for their clichés. All eagerly serve Writer Stewart...
...CENTER IS Gere's version of a schmuck making the transition to a mensch Unlike most of his previous performances, and especially his role in the laughable American Gigolo, Gere's Mayo has definition and direction. First, he seeks the pride the could never have achieved living above a cat house with his degenerate father. Second he learns about the price of integrity, avoiding false emotionalism in his early relationship with Paula. Third, he discovers that he can combine these with true friendship and generosity. In a subplot that could have become hokey, but somehow doesn't Mayo provides...