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...WALKED in on John Gordon-Sinclair of Gregory's Girl in a romantic comedy in the now familiar Glasgow setting, would you think "Gregory's Girl II"? The latest Bill Forsyth film...
...Gordon-Sinclair plays Alan, a studio photographer with romantic difficulties. It's been a few years since Gregory's Girl, so Alan is to young-adult comic pathos what Gregory was to the adolescent version. Alan sets out to leave lover Mary (Irina Brook) after debating the 50 ways, only to find that Mary has taken the direct approach by packing up and moving...
Things were starting to look good at the Hood Trophy Sunday at Tufts, as the Crimson vaulted into first place with a large margin. By the time Harvard's Gordon Burnes and Petra Schumann won their last race of the day, it was about...
...time Dale Turner (Gordon) gets to Paris to play an open-ended gig at the Blue Note in 1959, he is both a bop legend and a physical wreck. Too much booze and junk, so much energy spent to expand the boundaries of jazz. "Oh, yes, I'm tired," Dale croaks in his slow, reedy tones. "Of everything except the music." Francis (Francois Cluzet), a commercial illustrator who worships Turner's artistry, wants to change that. The mousy Frenchman is thrilled to be spoken to, listened to, used by his idol. He will manage Turner's life and finances, fight...
...pick a style off a tree one day," Turner tells Francis. "The tree's growing inside you, naturally." Tavernier has dared to find his new film's style in the cool, dark colors and loping harmonics of bebop, and especially in the laconic tempo of Gordon's speech and walk. Gordon, whose only previous movie gig was a stroll-on in the 1955 melodrama Unchained, commands the screen with the dignity of an exhausted emperor. He mines humor from his fastidious diction, has a ponderous grace and takes pauses that could drive Pinter nuts with impatience. No trained actor could...