Word: louts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first film, "Crocodile" Dundee, and he's likely to sound like the laid-back grandpa he is rather than the hottest actor to come up from Down Under since Mel Gibson got his driver's license. "We're doing real well," deadpans the self-described former pub lout. "And I'm feelin' real well." Bet you are, mate. The story of a crocodile poacher who trades the dangers of the Australian Outback for the perils of Manhattan's urban jungle, Dundee was already the top-grossing film in Australian history when it opened in the U.S. For the past...
Wanda: Let me tell you a little secret, Ralph. I married a lout. Who cares about the technology of orgasm? Sex is supposed to be part of a relationship, not a high school biology course. Some women have orgasms without contractions, and the white coats smile down and say, "Sorry, we can't count those because we can't measure them." Same old stuff of males using science to define and control women...
...lavish Amadeus is not exactly Cinderella, it is an odd choice for so much Hollywood glory. It is long (2 hr. 38 min.), without the epic quality that often marks lengthy pictures. Its theme, moreover, is rarefied: God's inexplicable gift of genius to a lout (Mozart, as Shaffer conceives his character), and his assignment of mediocrity to someone who is eminently deserving (the devout Salieri). But the biggest obstacle is Mozart, whose very name intimidates many moviegoers. The picture has prospered anyway, grossing $34 million in the U.S. and Canada even before the awards...
...disfigured with cuts and bruises, the former Charlie's Angel movingly conveys both the helplessness and the courage of a woman trapped in a nightmare. As her husband, Paul LeMat reveals the flip side of the character he played in the 1980 movie Melvin and Howard. The lovable lout has turned into a dangerous brute; LeMat's subtle achievement is to s show that both are one. The rest of the cast, especially Richard Masur as Francine's bland, earnest, ultimately heroic attorney, is uniformly excellent...
...going to become the greatest-horse track lout," he adds. "No, seriously," he continues, "I'm going to go fishing with McCurdy...