July 4, 2007
Why I love Dean Stockwell: Reason #1
Because in Married to the Mob he is as sexy as he has ever been ...
and yet - when Tony "the Tiger" Russo has a nightmare that his wife has shot off a certain intimate part of his anatomy, he wakes up with the following expression on his face:
This is a camp performance of my favorite kind. He is a villain, a killer - yet in keeping with the tone of the movie, you love him and can't stop watching him. It is right he doesn't die at the end. We have come to invest in him too much, and enjoy his every gesture (ah, those gestures again.) Everyone's campy in this movie - I mean, Mercedes Ruehl racing down the airport hallway, her hair like Bride of Frankenstein. And Alec Baldwin makes such a huge impression as the slick gorgeous greaseball - and he dies in the first 15 minutes of the movie! But it's Stockwell who walks away with the film, owning it - along with Michelle Pfeiffer who has never been so good.
