Take A Style Cue from William Hurt in Body Heat: Guest Blogger
If we had to come up with a shortlist of our favorite publications, GQ, Men’s Journal, and New York Magazine would be right at the top. Funny how our latest guest blogger, Martin Mulkeen, has written for all of them. Over the next few days, this plugged-in dude will be sharing his hard-earned style and grooming lessons. Trust us when we say, he knows what he’s talking about.
Set in the midst of a Florida heat wave, Body Heat (1981) isn’t exactly a seasonally appropriate film for the dead of winter. Or so one might think. Warmth is the core medium of this movie—the thick air alludes to the soupy gumbo of misdeeds in which the characters are all drowning. As Roger Ebert points out in his review of the film, temperature is a convenient metaphor for other kinds of heat. “Heat, body heat, is a convention of pornography, where performers routinely complain about how warm they are (as if lovemaking could cool them off, instead of making them hotter).” True.
Anyway, I recommend you make love to this nouveau noir this winter. Each sultry and sweat-drenched scene recalls the agony of summer humidity so vividly that it renews one’s appreciation for the face-numbing temps outside. Best of all is the always-dapper William Hurt, who absolutely nails the buttoned-down pavement-pounding attorney/private investigator look, from a tailored two-button seersucker to some original Penguin polos. He shows us more than a thing or two about looking good when you’re in hot water.
He may play a crappy lawyer and gullible doophus, but he is absolutely stylin’ in each pit-stained appearance. Whether he’s yucking it up with with Ted Dansen at the coffee shop in crispy blue button-down, teasing a cigarette from a softpack on the pier following a jog in a vintage heather grey FSU T-shirt, or disposing of a body in a tucked-in yellow pique polo, he pulls off every look. Even though he sweats through every outfit, Hurt still manages to look great. Might it be the mustache? If Hurt’s wardrobe holds no appeal, his seduction by Kathleen Turner certainly will.
One product Hurt could have used in his medicine cabinet? Clark’s Botanicals Smoothing Marine Cream.
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