Word: stanwycks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...movies had learned to talk and, with the help of Broadway-bred writers, did so in a sassy vernacular that singed sensitive ears. And the films were acted with a feral intelligence. James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Mae West, Barbara Stanwyck were street-level stars with insolent accents and attitudes. "There we were, like an uncensored movie," says Harlow of one tryst in Red-Headed Woman (she fornicates her way up the social ladder, gets found out and lands in Paris with a new sugar daddy and a stud chauffeur). These guys and dolls could dish it out and just...
...injuries, morphine addiction and betrayal by every military, judicial and corporate authority, was joined on marquees by Beauty for Sale, Girls for Sale, Scandal for Sale. The films painted, in brisk, garish strokes, America's can-do optimism twisted into gotta-have greed. "What could I do?" asks Stanwyck about an office liaison in Baby Face. "He's my boss, and I had to earn my living." She's bad, but the Depression made...
...didn't put Monica Lewinsky in the White House. Of course, the guy who recommended her, Walter Kaye, is a particular friend of Hillary Clinton's, but I never figured Hillary for the engineer of this. Wronged wife who finally takes revenge? Too obvious. Too much like a Barbara Stanwyck movie...
...future stars, like Rogers, perky and alluring from the start, and Cary Grant, who made his movie debut in Chang's Singapore Sue. Some stars Hollywood couldn't figure out. Merman, setting a torch to After You're Gone in Be Like Me, is tough, sexy, charismatic--a singing Stanwyck. But film musical heroines were soft creatures, and Merman was sent back to Broadway...
...geek kid becomes a Greek god. Hercules (voiced by Tate Donovan) is your basic mythic hybrid--half man, half deity--recast as a clumsy teen. Superman-strong and Bambi-naive, Herc is an ideal foil for wily Meg (a subtle siren, wonderfully voiced by Susan Egan). She plays Barbara Stanwyck to his Eddie Bracken, while a gruff satyr (Danny DeVito) acts as Herc's mentor and parries the anti-Olympus scheming of Hades (James Woods...