Word: tuxedoed
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...actor who showed up wearing a shiny silver garment that peeked out from what looked like the uniform of a cabin boy on an ocean liner. Or one who combined an open-neck shirt of the sort worn by Coca-Cola deliverymen with what appeared to be a tuxedo jacket owned by a much larger man in 1938. In this country, fear of being ridiculed by high school buddies is about the only governor we have left on the behavior of the celebrated; around Oscar night every year, I feel even that slipping away...
...Reilly (the Professor) worked together marvelously. Their timing was excellent and their flair for the absurd commendable. Through great costuming. O'Reilly had the exhausted, overworked look of a truly brilliant thinker--sunken-in eyes and a not-quite-close shave, combined with greasy hair and a slightly disheveled tuxedo...
...launched the Disney-MGM Studio theme park in Florida, Eisner noticed that a spangle from the costume of one of the 1,200 dancers had fallen on the red carpet. He waited till the cameras had passed, then darted out, picked up the spangle and put it in his tuxedo pocket. At Disney, neatness counts. So, for the chairman and ceo, does a twin obsession for the big picture and the smallest, shiniest detail...
Audience members go to auditions and get cutand wish they, too, could wear tuxedos and blackcocktail dresses and be in an a capella group. Sixmonths later, after attending a capella concertsevery other weekend, audience members realize theynever want to see another tuxedo or black cocktaildress again...
Perhaps wooing a tuxedo-clad room brimming with the tipsy bourgeoisie can be seen as a welcome change from life in Southern California. Hanks performed admirably, giving a speech that any studio writer would be proud to have penned. Wearing a natty red wig and the Pudding's stock pink stilettos, he gave us everything we came for. The speech that some people paid up to $75 a ticket...