Word: butch
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Savoy Theatre-Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. 163 Tremont...
...Sundance in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Redford plays a cool, sardonic renegade with a deliberate and precise sense of irony. As an eager young skier in Downhill Racer, he smoothly combines naivete and monomaniacal ambition. But his most impressive role is to come. In the new film Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here!, he appears as a cold-blooded sheriff and gives his most powerfully sustained performance so far. This is plainly the first of what should be many Robert Redford vintage years...
William Goldman, novelist ( Boys and Girls Together ) and screenwriter ( Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ). spent a year hanging around Broadway and following shows like Angela from birth to death. He wrote a book about his experiences. The Season , and, If you care anything about the theater at all. there is every chance it will turn your stomach...
...smooth as if lately shaven; I trow he were a mare or a gelding." This is the eunuch-like caricature of" femininity that most people associate with homosexuality. In the 1960s he may be the catty hairdresser or the lisping, limp-wristed interior decorator. His lesbian counterpart is the "butch," the girl who is aggressively masculine to the point of trying to look like a man. Blatants also include "leather boys," who advertise their sadomasochism by wearing leather jackets and chains, and certain transvestites, or "Tvs." (Other transvestites are not homosexuals at all and, while they enjoy dressing in female...
...movie ends abruptly here. Director Hill has too much affection for Butch and Sundance to slobber over their death agonies. He has partly compensated for the dreary pacing which prevailed earlier. Yet the awkward, and frequent, overlay of farce and social comment has marred an otherwise excellent spoof...