![]() Rhea managed to save the youngest, Zeus, by hiding him away on the island of Krete (Crete), and fed Kronos a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes. In fear of a prophecy that he would in turn be overthrown by his own son, Kronos swallowed each of his children as they were born. He ruled the cosmos during the Golden Age after castrating and deposing his father Ouranos (Uranus, Sky). ![]() KRONOS (Cronus) was the King of the Titanes and the god of time, in particular time when viewed as a destructive, all-devouring force. Would you want to fly into combat with Zach Mayo or with Tom Cruise's Maverick in "Top Gun"? Zach Mayo, hands down.Time ( khronos) Cronus and the Omphalos stone, Athenian red-figure pelike C5th B.C., Metropolitan Museum of Art The most riveting moment of the movie is when Foley is going to kick Zach out of the program and Gere frantically and desperately screams "DON'T YOU DO THAT! I AIN'T GOT NOWHERE ELSE TO GO!" All of Zach's arrogance is drained out of him and he is just a desperate kid begging for the only chance he'll ever have. ![]() Still one of the steamiest bed scenes in film history. The movie also had to snip out a couple of seconds of Winger flexing her hips a bit too much during a bed scene. Supposedly the scene in which she is crying while making love to Zach isn't because she's feeling passion, it is because she is feeling humiliated. I had read that Winger had a real problem doing the nude scenes with Gere and felt very uncomfortable being undressed in front of the camera. ![]() Debra Winger is also delectable as Paula, Zach's working class girlfriend. steals the show and gets a deserved Oscar as Gunnery Sergeant Foley. It is impossible to think of anyone else in the role which is one indication of how good Gere was. I read once that his role of Zach Mayo was first offered to John Denver. This has to be Richard Gere's best movie and the one movie I felt he deserved an Oscar nomination for. ![]()
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