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...Nick and his wife Nora (and their terrier Asta) were a dream family to a Depression audience in need of blithe fantasy. In six movies from 1934 to '47 (out on DVD next month), William Powell was a kind of F.D.R. of crime fiction and Myrna Loy was the suavest, most gracious wife ever...
Looming maliciously as the film’s well-groomed villain, Lambert Wilson delivers each line with silky-smooth narcissism, securing his position as the coolest, suavest French badass in Hollywood cinema...
When at home, al-Sabah, like most other men in Kuwait, leaves the dressing up to his wife and sisters, preferring to wear traditional robes (called dishdasha). But in Europe or the U.S., he's quickly developing a reputation as one of the suavest men on the fashion scene. The British magazine Tatler recently deemed him a style icon and made him a contributing editor. Yet al-Sabah wants to do more than bring the fashion set to Kuwait. He wants, says Tashfeen Niaz, Villa Moda's COO, "to prove that Kuwait is not someplace you can ignore...
...comic grace he's displayed since Splash. It is a nice reminder that this ordinary-looking guy--with the repetitive crunches in that pensive space between his eyebrows and, at 42, a bit of a Michelin Man neck--is the avatar of Cary Grant and Spencer Tracy. Our suavest, most grounded light-romantic star...
That was Mastroianni: the postheroic hero, defining the European male in all his charm, complexity, failure. Husband and lover, actor and movie star, deft comedian and suavest delineator of atomic-age anomie--there was a Marcello for every sexual taste, every moral mood. And he loved being those people; that's why he kept at it for a half-century, in more than 120 pictures. "When I make films," he said in 1987, "I am absolutely happy. And when the film is finished, I am looking for another film. Otherwise my life is a little more bored...