Word: machismo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. J.T. WALSH, 54, character actor and specialist in obdurate personae; of a heart attack; outside San Diego. Walsh's sense of icy machismo made him perfect for David Mamet's anomic world; the playwright gave Walsh his first big break when he cast him in the 1984 Broadway production of Glengarry Glen Ross. Walsh did not start acting until he was 30, yet he brought his skill to nearly 60 film roles, including a turn as John Ehrlichman in Nixon and recently as a redneck kidnapper in the 1997 thriller Breakdown...
Strike a flirtily nude pose for a women's magazine. Have a happily public affair with a TV chanteuse 19 years your senior. Tease your screen machismo in lightning banter with Johnny Carson. Make a lot of middling pictures in fast cars. Be an early victim of AIDS rumors. Just about...
...film, directed by Alain Berliner from an original script by Chris vander Stappen, has the scheme of a socially fretful TV movie. Yet at heart, Ma Vie en Rose is a delightful comedy, both in its buoyant dream sequences and in Ludo's vagrant, clumsy stabs at embryonic machismo. Staring at himself in the mirror, he shoots off an imaginary gun, just like the other kids, and--he's really trying--adjusts his crotch...
...Chasing Amy Underground-comix artists pair off, then square off in this romantic tragicomedy. He's full of sweetly uncomprehending machismo, she's gay but nervously alert to other possibilities. And auteur Kevin Smith (Clerks) has the best Gen X files in the business, full of compassionate observations on its mysterious manners and morals...
Because when it's taken on its own terms, of course, Schrab's ridiculous fusion of machismo, humor and popular culture works. And it certainly does generate a lot of attitude. Scud himself realizes this in one of his profounder moments. Meditating that he's one robot protagonist who's never wanted to be a human being, he comes to the conclusion that he should enjoy being what he is. Summing up the central aesthetic of the comic, Scud proclaims, "It's cool to be a robot...