Word: boyish
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...acting is superb. My only frustration was that the bond between Joan and Todd never fully cements. His boyish earnestness in the face of injustice and her detached naiveté of the happenings in the world make an odd match. The fact that they later marry is a little hard to grasp...
...seasoned late-night passenger, I thought that perhaps I had mastered the technique of making myself appear more imposing than I really am by curling up into a fetal position and pulling the hood of my jacket over my head, thereby hiding my lanky frame and boyish face while I slept. Yet beneath the heavy green fabric of my Abercrombie sweatshirt, I must have exuded an aura of accessibility, for, despite my best efforts, I proved unable to shake my innocuous but unwanted interlocutors...
Garca Bernal has that boyish quality; even when he dresses up for a film premiere, he looks like a kid in Dad's duds. The child behind the man--that's a theme in Bad Education, in which the main character is a homosexual plotting revenge for his childhood abuse by a priest. The actor playing that character must juggle many identities, and Almodvar saw that ability in Garca Bernal: "The script demanded someone who would be absolutely desirable both as a woman and as a man, who would be spontaneously virile and not be grotesque when...
...brilliant thing that David did was send a message through a laugh,” Schwartzman says of the film. The boyish actor sits across the room from Russell, clad in a Brooks Brothers button-down, dress pants and sneakers. “The ideas in the movie are huge messages, huge ideas that we do need to ask ourselves. They are absurd at times. I think the great thing David did was make the ideas easy to understand...
...fellow rafters. Eight men look up to study us intently as we walk in. Several of them look decidedly unfit, and I look around for the natural leader of the group, the tough veteran of the voyage we're about to begin. "Hi, we're your guides," says a boyish young man from the floor, where he's kneeling on a bulging bright blue bag, squashing it into as small a shape as possible. He nods cheerfully toward an even younger man, who looks like he's just woken after a big night. The bags Pat hands around turn...