Word: gorgeous
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...that stars in the making weren't available to Mann. Gorgeous young Jane Greer was an RKO ing?nue when Mann was there, just two years before her breakthrough role in Out of the Past. In fact, she had her first billed role in Mann's Two O'Clock Courage, where, at 20, she is already sultry and spoiled; and she appears again in his The Bamboo Blonde. But Mann apparently didn't see what Greer had: the high forehead, full lips and amoral aura that gave her a drop-dead-with-a-smile-on-your-face sexual charisma. The director...
...which forced the closing of the former house pool. He’s parlayed that exuberance into 14 beautifully composed songs on 2004’s “Hang On Little Tomato.” The album is instrumentally immaculate, orchestrally intricate, and overall, drop-dead gorgeous...
...brio that still startle. ("I swung on him with all of my hundred and ninety pounds. My fist went up to the wrist in his stomach. He flopped to the floor vomiting his lungs out, his face gradually turning purple.") On the last page, he corrals the villain, a gorgeous blond he'd been in love with. and plugs her with a .45. Then comes one of the most pungent windups in pulp...
...Mike is constantly fighting off gorgeous babes. "Damn you," says Connie in Vengeance Is Mine!, "I never tried so hard to make a guy who won't be made." Or else he's engaging in foreplay and deferring the climactic act. "'You're even better than I thought,' she said. 'You're a man with the instincts of some jungle animal. It has to be when you say so, doesn't it?' ... 'Not before,' I told her." The plot logic is twofold: that Hammer can't have sex with the woman he's going to kill on the last page...
...it’s his voice that does the enriching. It’s gorgeous to the point of being a little too gorgeous, with a disarming, somewhat alien quality that lends his words a power they would otherwise lack...