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Quite a different sort of film made by Lancaster's company was the brilliantly brutal Sweet Smell of Success. Lancaster's J.J. Hunsecker, a Walter Winchell-type Broadway columnist with horn-rimmed glasses and an accountant's haircut, gets relatively little screen time; yet he dominates the cynical scenario as surely as Dracula does any vampire movie. Lancaster knew he needn't raise his voice to exude pestilence. There is capital punishment in his whisper, "You're dead, son. Get yourself buried...
...early '80s came the second British invasion (the first, the Stones and Beatles), but this event was more an infection than an invasion, led by junk-pop groups such as Duran Duran and Haircut 100. R.E.M., whose oblique songs dealt with provocative topics like Bible-thumping televangelists and complaints about American imperialism, provided an alternative to the British sludge that was washing up on U.S. shores. The band received little early support from radio or MTV, but by touring college towns and playing small clubs it steadily built a base of loyal fans. Its 1983 debut album, Murmur, sold more...
...take on lesbians: they're human beings. Imagine! They can be funny and horny. They look for love and, when they're not looking, fall in it. Max, "a carefree Sappho lesbo," hooks up with gawky Ely (V.S. Brodie), who finds it hard to commit to anything, even a haircut. And just like real people -- oh, yes -- lesbians can be long-winded, tortured and smug...
Last Wednesday, Houck ruled again, this time in favor of the haircut. Previously, he had accepted the Citadel's demand that Faulkner be housed by herself in a renovated area of the school's infirmary. Faulkner's enrollment, however, seemed inevitable, and as she prepared gamely for her desired ordeal, Citadel graduates like Buck Limehouse (class of '60), now chairman of the South Carolina department of transportation commission, tried to put their disappointment in a historical context: "It's sort of like the Southern cause," he said. "Even if you know you're going to lose...
Roger & Me dealt with the effects of General Motors layoffs in Moore's hometown of Flint, Michigan, and was structured around his efforts to meet with Roger Smith, who was then CEO of GM. Shambling, wearing sagging jeans and badly in need of a haircut, Moore sought out the elusive chairman in posh offices and clubs. He pursued his subject doggedly, and his innocent, straight-faced directness with the public relations executives and others keeping him away from Smith gave the film a subdued hilarity...