BVDs

Phoenix spends much of the movie half-naked, often wearing just his BVDs, and if you don’t know the number of bones in his rib cage by the end of the film, you haven’t been paying attention.

Wearing only my BVDs, I got up and looked out in the hall.

Under Father’s tutelage, I was introduced to more than Ban-Lon shirts, Harris Tweed and BVDs.

Ever focused and never cracking a smile, he talks through a mildly risqué duet and cuts capers with the statuesque Friganza in a routine that leaves them ripping off each other’s costumes and cavorting in their BVDs; playing a stranded aviator in giant galoshes and outsize jodhpurs, he sings the title song fronting an ensemble of chorines in grass skirts and frizzy blond wigs.

The men seem to be clad in flesh-colored BVDs on which someone has apparently traced the entire human nervous system.