Word: awestruck
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...lobby and changing tables in the rest rooms, and most of her fans--2,500 of them at this show alone--come up only to her hips. "I planned to be a rock star, but I didn't think I'd be doing this," she says, surrounded by awestruck children backstage at the third show of Jamarama Live!, the first ever preschool-music festival to tour nationally. "I thought I was going to be carrying amps up a flight of stairs at 5 in the morning." Instead her show is over by nap time...
Garbo's centenary this September made lots of people remember that she was once considered a great actress. This set offers irrefutable proof: 10 features packed with enough glamour and bold genius to leave any skeptic awestruck. See her ignite the screen in Ernst Lubitsch's divine comedy Ninotchka or the Dumas melodrama Camille--made in 1939 and still the most astonishing display of star acting the movies ever recorded...
Landing in Virginia in 1607, Smith (Farrell) is intoxicated by the land's abundance and awestruck by the grace of Pocahontas (Kilcher). In their sylvan rapture they could be the American Adam and Eve. Or is he, as the envoy of European civilization, the snake in her Eden? She may need another, steadier gallant, John Rolfe (Bale), as her heart's compromise...
...Ritz Tour travelers seem awestruck by Harvard Yard nevertheless. The visitors, mostly lawyers, doctors, teachers, and architects, shell out over $800 for the privilege. Pointing to passing students and smiling conspiratorially on a recent visit, they seemed happy to remind FM why we’re all here...
...Super Size Me, that Big Machiavellian experiment in fast-food bingeing, made a star of director and guinea pig Morgan Spurlock. Capturing the Friedmans posed a troubling mystery about a seemingly nice suburban family that viewers had to resolve for themselves. And Winged Migration turned every moviegoer into an awestruck ornithologist. The moral: films needn't serve as just pacifiers or pulse racers. That's what Hollywood does. Get people arguing, thinking. Stir them to anger or awe. That's docu-tainment...