Word: tenderizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Glenn benefits by additions as well as excisions. One tender scene was inspired by a 1959 picture in LIFE magazine of Glenn and his wife sprawled on a day bed. In the movie, Glenn confesses to Annie that his fellow pilots consider him "a gung-ho type." When Annie breaks into giggles, Glenn turns to her with affection. "Oh, you agree? My own wife? Do you think I'm a Dudley Do-Right?" The pair chuckle softly, but not before Glenn strikes a mock heroic pose and delivers a few self-deprecating lines. Director Philip Kaufman, who also wrote...
...happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or a dog than to any human being." Sometimes the love of animals bespeaks an incapacity for the more complicated business of loving people; mental patients who react to other humans with fear and loathing can develop calm, tender relationships with puppies. Animals are usually perfectly themselves, not the elaborately perverse psychological mysteries that people seem to become. Animals, if not rabid, have a certain emotional reliability. But being on the side of the animals does not always make one a good guy. It is wise, when beginning...
...Despite the magnitude of the life-death predicament. Tommy remains the simple, sincere kid trying--to the last--to mend fences. No fancy philosophical speeches, no existential angst--the simple words "Pop, I'm scared" are as effective as the handshake between Jim and Harry at a crucial and tender moment...
...Lawyers in Love, the lyrics are much more relaxed, the titles of the songs (Tender Is the Night, Knock on Any Door) either evoke bleary late shows on all-night movie channels or, as in Downtown, deliberately call up echoes of old songs for purposes of dramatic contrast...
...affair with the wife of a philandering husband is sexy and poignant, a tough embrace shared by two adults with equally damaged illusions. Similarly, the Depression, its grinding poverty and hero-worshiping tabloids, keeps threatening to push from background to foreground. In side the competent puzzle posed by Tender Prey, there is clearly a bigger novel and a promising novelist...