Word: gilda
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rare shot at instant stardom -- an appearance on the season premiere of Saturday Night Live in 1975 -- misfired when producer Lorne Michaels cut his spot from six minutes to one and Crystal pulled out. "It was awful," says Crystal. "Gilda ((Radner)) walked me to the elevator. I was crying all the way home on the Long Island Railroad, the tears running down the makeup." While friends Chevy Chase and John Belushi went on to become household names, he had to settle for a spot on ABC's wacky series Soap, playing television's first prime-time homosexual. Then came...
...Twin Bracelets at 4, 6, 8and 10 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 9 and 10.Play Misty for Me at 3:40 and 7:50 p.m. andTightrope at 1:30, 3:40 and 9:45 p.m. on Sunday,Oct. 11. Laura at 4:10 and 8 p.m. and Gilda at 2,5:55 and 9:45 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 12. Thelma andLouise at 7:20 p.m. and A Question of Silence at5:30 and 9:40 p.m. on Tuesday, October 13. PauleMarshall at 5:30 p.m. and Long Day's Journey intoNight at 8 p.m. on Wednesday...
Leonard Michaels's essay on Gilda offers the corresponding male version. Michaels recalls his first awareness of sexuality sparked by a seductive Rita Hayworth belting out "Put the Blame on Mame." He reminisces: "If it was a real feeling, could I be violated by it, my own real feeling? Could it happen to anyone? If so, could anyone ever be a good person...
Looking back, Michaels remains haunted by Hayworth, but realizes how manufactured Hayworth's Gilda and film, in general, are. Nothing her turbulent life and five marriages, he now sees Hayworth differently: "So much of her life was public, spectacular imagery that it is hard to suppose she had a real life, or to suppose that her feelings about Rita Hayworth were not the same as ours...
...SCTV mimics -- Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, Martin Short -- did have a problem. On TV they hid like a subversive subtext inside their brilliant impersonations. But in movies an actor doesn't disappear; he displays himself. So Short has put his mimetic, improvisatory genius on hold and marketed one facet of his personality: the winsome whiner...