Word: tango
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tango begins with each fashion season, in the showrooms of Seventh Avenue or SoHo. Magazine editors -- powerful tastemakers with impeccable taste -- survey the racks of samples from the designer's newest line. They make their choices -- the Calvin Kleins for the summer spread; the Gianni Versaces for the feature on The New Glamour. Then a jacket catches the editor's eye. She pulls it from the racks, fingers the rich fabric, tries it on, feels that familiar adrenaline rush...
These song lyrics from "The Way You Look Tonight" were first featured in the 1936 black-and-white musical "Swing Time." Fred Astaire sang them to the ineffable Ginger Rogers, who was coiffed and dressed as immaculately as always, ready to waltz (or tango, or foxtrot) into his arms...
...character goes from being the same and sober one of the pair--Curtis is the flamboyant, womanizing risk-taker--to a state of madcap abandon. There's a gleam in his eyes as he shakes a pair of maracas, or holds a rose between his teeth during a tango with Brown, that is nothing short of priceless. The tango scene is one of the greatest in comedy film history, and it works because of Lemmon...
...musical, based on Voltaire's novel, retains the other-worldly quality of the original, though in this musical adaptation its exoticism becomes laughable. The Spanish (or any of their colonies) seem to live, love, and scheme to the strains of a tango; all of Paris, even in the 18th century, spontaneously erupts into waltzing...
...Arnold is a gem--Roseanne's estranged husband does have some talent apart from her after all. And the movie is fun. Go see it in the theater. But if you see it with your significant other, be prepared to sign up for tango lessons afterwards. The life of a spy is a difficult...