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...another article this week, I wrote about the dearth of strong roles for women in today's movies. Well, the women in Grindhouse are strong, indeed macho, and I'd love to see that as a good thing. But except for McGowan, whose grownup sultriness gives her character some emotional heft, the women here are voluptuous stick figures, living out a guy's idea of excitement. I think that many American filmmakers of the past 30 years have this view of women: comic-book superheroes; Ultra-man with breasts...
...same movie. As a result, they eventually broadcast their resentment for the audiences that make them successful, à la Chevy Chase, or, like Jim Carrey, renounce them in pursuit of broader horizons. Ferrell not only doesn't chafe under the demands of popular taste--"I love playing the macho guy who looks like an idiot," he says--he has reduced movie stardom to a series of unpretentious, unthinking decisions. "Will's stand is, If it's good and it makes us laugh, I'm doing it," says Adam McKay, Ferrell's co-writer and director on Anchorman and Talladega Nights...
...really be NASCAR? For the new breed of more marketing savvy NASCAR drivers, it certainly is. Jeff Gordon, NASCAR's clean-cut mascot who is already dismissed by some die-hards as insufficiently macho, is making wine under the Jeff Gordon Collection label. Working with a vineyard and a winemaker in Calistoga, Calif., Gordon is producing small quantities of a Carneros Chardonnay and later this year he'll have two more varieties ready for market - a cabernet sauvignon and a merlot. Gordon considers wine a personal passion separate from his NASCAR persona and he's proud to point out that...
...direction winners from Pan's come back stage. Bilingual journalists start acting macho...
...That's to give the rooster good life," one spectator commented. He explained that the gallero has to suck the blood out of the rooster's beak-pecked neck to keep it from drowning so it can fight another round. "It's the ultimate sign of being a macho man," another spectator said. Well if that's the test of virility, call me a chicken...