The Early Buzz Website Spoonfed has written "Jude Law plays sailor Mat Burke who's actually a bit of a git, and Law's always best when he has a dark edge to his character.
After playing sailors and wrestlers and cowboys, the models were rewarded with sets of free snapshots, "membership cards" for the Guild, and, maybe most valuable, memories of the photo sessions, when they gazed not at Mizer but at their own images, reflected in the large mirror mounted above him.
But the president and chief executive of the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum, Lt. Gen. MARTIN R. STEELE, notified them that even though "Sex and the City" was his wife's favorite show, he could not allow the Intrepid to be used as a backdrop for three footloose stars (SARAH JESSICA PARKER, KIM CATTRALL, left, and KRISTIN DAVIS) and actors playing sailors.
Hollywood star Jude Law is returning to the West End stage to play a sailor who falls in love with a prostitute.
What passes for a plot in "Guys and Dolls" — Sky Masterson's attempt to seduce the missionary Sarah Brown, on a bet — isn't Runyon's at all but is lifted from an old wheeze in a very wheezy old play called "Sailor, Beware!," while the subplot of Nathan Detroit's romance with Miss Adelaide was the invention of the director, George S. Kaufman.
I mean, I did play with Sailor Moon barbies at one point, so it was pretty much a dead giveaway, even though I didn't know I was gay yet.
Adriano Giannini plays the sailor; his dad, Giancarlo, starred in the original.
He played his sailor (the role Robbins originated) as a guy's guy, so that the rumba steps in his show-off solo came as a nice surprise.
The orchestra played a sailor's hornpipe, whose lyrics, in one version, speak of a jaunty refusal to heed the weather.
A young Dennis Hopper plays a sailor on shore leave who falls under the spell of a mysterious woman (Linda Lawson) posing in a mermaid costume for tourists at the Santa Monica Pier.
