by Seán McGovern
Annie Hall turns 40 this year and Diane Keaton will be the recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award next month (June 8th to be exact). Keaton, a perennial A-lister, reminds us every few years about the extent of her talents. She's been enjoying recent success in The Young Pope and her upcoming projects Hampstead and Book Club sound promising at least. Since Annie Hall turns 40 this year so too will Keaton's other '77 triumph, Looking For Mr. Goodbar.
Though Goodbar is remembered for Keaton in a dramatic role (which this author will pay attention to here at a later date), the film is definitely what we'd call in contemporary parlance "problematic". I recently watched Goodbar for my own podcast, but amongst the reprehensible moments I finally understood why so many women of a certain age (i.e. my mother) swooned over Richard Gere - who we get to see plenty of in this film, as well as co-star Tom Berenger who never looked so gorgeous.[More, slightly NSFW, after the jump...]
It actually feels quite rare to really be presented with male bodies to drool over in cinema of the 20th centrury, probably why Mandy Patinkin feels so delightfully woofy in Yentl - knowing that it's directed by a woman, Barbra Streisand.
Gere or Berenger in Goodbar? You decide.
One more for the sake of gratuity...
And some Tom Berenger, who has celluloid memories of a banging body.
And just one more miscellaneous one...
Unfair...