Word: underworlders
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...proletarian music of his voice was also perfectly matched to the trademark settings of the Warner films of the 1930s--the working world, where it was a struggle to keep a firm footing, and the underworld that waited for those who wavered and fell. By the end of his first few months in pictures, Cagney had made a name for himself with The Public Enemy. It was the movie in which he concluded the most famous breakfast scene in cinema history by squashing a grapefruit in Actress Mae Clarke's kisser...
...Kris Kristofferson) broods and moralizes as he advances on Wanda (Genevieve Bujold), who runs a shabby cafe and represents experience, and on Georgia (Lori Singer), a waif who represents innocence. Her common-law husband Coop (Keith Carradine) is a hick tough with delusions of gaining grandeur in the urban underworld, but he ends up wearing punk costumes and too much mascara. The picture in turn is plastered over with a heavy layer of intellectual pancake. It is all pretense and portent up to a wild shoot-out at the end, wittily imagined, cunningly staged. But not, perhaps, quite enough...
...essays, broad-ranging in content as well as in presentation, are collected under three headings. Part I, "Seeing Signs," initiates one into the underworld of hidden meanings, exposing the rampant process of fabrication in which symbols are manipulated to guide mass ideology. In "Strategies of Lying," Umberto Eco performs a structural operation to demonstrate how Nixon's image-making speeches were variations on the same mythic elements composing Little Red Riding Hood. Michel de Certeau's "The Jabbering, of Social Life" reduces politics to a social organ polluting the environment with mindless dogma. The heralding of the Reagan...
...role acquires a more comfortable fit. When Antonio's friends demand that he play the piano, an instrument he hasn't mastered, Robert plays like a Carnegie Hall veteran. And when Antonio's son gets in trouble with the mob, it's Robert who has to take on the underworld single-handed. Pretty soon even his cold, business-like secretary is getting all gushy about Robert...
...heroes are Andy Warhol and Edie Sedgwick, the prince and princess of the avant-garde underworld. Like James Dean and Marilyn Monroe, Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin, Sam Shepard and Patti Smith, Warhol and Sedgwick comprise but one pair of a cult-worshipped court of legendary hearts handed the scepter and deposed just as quietly by generations of kids searching casually for heroes. I ask her why she likes Warhol...