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...James Stewart) of It's a Wonderful Life. Those who must believe the worst about even the nicest people will be pleased to learn that George and Sister-in-Law Laura enjoyed a pre-Christmas tryst at New York City's Pierre Hotel. Julian Kay (Richard Gere in American Gigolo) was born in an asylum, son of the mad Norma Desmond and Screenwriter Joe Gillis, whom she shot in the last reel of Sunset Boulevard. Julian is raised by Max von Mayerling (Erich von Stroheim), Norma's former husband and butler. After two dismal marriages, Judy Rogers (Natalie Wood...
Alfred Drake, Zachary Scott, Herbert Lom, Farley Granger and Ricardo Montalban have all played the role, but for 34 years Yul Brynner has been the first and only King of Siam--an Oriental patriarch who is also a gigolo in jade. He is onstage perhaps half as much as the actress who plays Anna, the Englishwoman who educates the King's children; and of the half-dozen songs that still elate the memory (Hello, Young Lovers, Getting to Know You, I Whistle a Happy Tune, etc., etc., etc.), the King sings none. It matters not. By dint of dogged charisma...
...Italy. Nevertheless, the reader still capable of shame must feel guilty of a stunning level of shiftlessness: he is letting another man win his bets for him (Barich admits to occasional losses but does not dwell on them), and even catch and eat his fish. As in any such gigolo-gigolee relationship, exquisite tact is required of the paid performer...
Colette's preparatory sketches for her masterworks Chéri (1920) and The Last of Chéri (1926) show how hard she labored to achieve an effect of lapidary simplicity and ease. The fledgling gigolo Chéri made his first appearance as a runny-nosed boy called Clouk. "When I gave birth to this beautiful young man," the author later recalled, "he was ugly, something of a runt, and sickly, suffering from swollen adenoids." He bored her. As a result, "Clouk awoke from a few months' sleep, cast off his pale little slough like a molting...
While his friends play politics, Plarr for some reason plays the gigolo; he begins an affair with Fortnum's wife (Elpidia Carrillo), an unusual Indian girl who first caught his eye when he saw her working in the town brothel. The uncharacteristic obsession doesn't add much depth to Plarr, who seems as reluctant and detached from this involvement as from all the others...