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...movie depicts this awful feeling with its antithesis in Joe (Matthew Modine), a woman's hero. I would take him home and frame him. Joe offers to take a bullet on behalf of a stranger whose boyfriend is beating her on the street. When Joe sees an old man making a lewd pass at a girl young enough to be his granddaughter, Joe asks him to consider his conduct and the age difference. I recently had an experience much like that of Joe's girlfriend, Mary, who regularly suffers body-inspired comments from a particular dirty...
...silent screen: handsome, witty and good-natured, between 1926 and 1931 he was one of the biggest box-office draws in Hollywood, top on MGM's roster of stars and adored by women film fans everywhere. Specializing in playing the role of the "wisecracker," a joking, likable trickster hero who starts out a bit of a lout but always learn his lesson by the end of the film, Haines made his on-screen name as a romantic hero and his off-screen reputation as one of the most outgoing, charismatic and popular figures in Hollywood...
Mann, taking an affectionate but carefully critical view of the hero of his book, traces Haines's life through its multiple metamorphoses. One of the book's central revelations is that Hollywood in the 1920s was a place where it was possible to be openly gay. Homosexuality was simply accepted; gay and straight people mingled socially as well as professionally, and there was a line dividing the on-screen persona of an actor from his private life. But with the advent of sound and the conservative reactionism of the 1930s which accompanied the start of the Great Depression, a crackdown...
...Luckily, Bobby Plump springs eternal in Hoosiers (1986). Based on that 1954 miracle and starring Gene Hackman, Dennis Hopper, and someone named Maris Valainis as team hero Jimmy Chitwood, this movie will melt the most cynical of hearts and have you out shooting baskets in the middle of the night. The institution it glorified is changed forever, but Hoosiers remembers. Watch it every spring...
...White House when Hollywood decided to release one film after another that makes the place a cross between the Playboy mansion and Dracula's castle. Maybe as some kind of compensatory gesture, the movies have also lately given us the President as cartoonish action hero: Harrison Ford in Air Force One, Bill Pullman in Independence Day--the Commander in Chief as somebody who can do a nice head butt. Musclehead or sex fiend--that's not much of a choice. Before long the only guys suitable for the part will be Jackie Chan and Larry Flynt...