Word: lane
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...politics, losing pays better. Whoever wins in November can look forward to a $200,000 annual salary, a White House ringed with tank barriers and a Camp David getaway that's been described as "a medium-quality boys' camp without the horses." The also-rans are in the fast lane to Candy Land...
...YEARS HE'S BEEN A LOCAL HERO on Broadway, but Nathan Lane is just now learning what it's like to be a real star. Most Hollywood vets know the drill: the rash of press interviews, the upsurge in people stopping you on the street to sing your praises. But Lane, who plays the flamboyantly effeminate half of a gay couple in The Birdcage, has to contend with something other movie stars don't. Stopped in Manhattan traffic in a taxi one day last week, he noticed a rough-looking van driver staring down at him. The fellow turned...
...Lane froze. "It was really a horrible moment," he says. "I just sat there and thought, well, here's the flip side...
...WAITS impatiently downstairs, Starina, the headliner, sits at her dressing table. She powders away the age lines. She applies mascara to the eyes that have bewitched a thousand sailors. She runs an electric shaver over her chin stubble. It's hard work being a drag queen, as Starina (Nathan Lane), diva deluxe of The Birdcage, can testify...
Maybe The Birdcage--with its Romeo and Juliet plot about two young lovers and their opposing families, one gay, one straight--will challenge a few prejudices. For a start, it's funny, with two of the world's most gifted comics, Lane and Williams, as the drag queen and his slightly more butch companion. Lane is wildly endearing: a tempestuous wife, a doting mother and every inch the great lady. The film gets less comic mileage, but more political kick, from the right-wing politician (Hackman) who is the butt of the film's genial jokes. He might...