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...knows how to write out of the side of his mouth, and McBride knows how to stage both action and eroticism; their work has a drive and energy that derive from conviction and, perhaps, good old American know-how. Best of all, the film makers have found in Richard Gere an actor who can play a dumb, crazy punk and make the audience like him. It is a breakthrough performance for an actor who has brooded prettily over various victimizations in the past, but never showed this strength of characterlessness before...
...story is the same. Gere steals a car, kills a highway patrolman without quite meaning to, while heading for the big city and an up-scale lady. She knows better than to scratch this itch, does anyway, but then betrays her lover to the police, mostly, it seems, to assert the ascendancy of middle-class values over steaming sexual impulse. In the original movie, Jean Seberg played an American stranger in the strange French landscape. Here, of course, the roles must be reversed. France's Valerie Kaprisky plays the uprooted thrill seeker with the same air of being stunned...
When Richard Gere, resplendent in his Navy whites, carried Debra Winger off into the celluloid sunset in An Officer and a Gentleman, audiences everywhere cheered and cried. If the 1940s-style sentiment was effective, the symbolism was apt: the military's "white knight" image, tainted for years by the stigma of the Viet Nam War, has been spit-and-polished. "Things have really changed," marvels Rick Field, a Navy recruiter in Longmont, Colo. "It's back to the days when the troopers are the good guys...
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...