Word: cameos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...behaved, in short, like a star. Her usual soft, smiling evasiveness around the press earned her the temporary nickname "Shy Di." "My name is Diana," she would say whenever anyone addressed her by the diminutive, a cameo of grace under unexpected pressure that could not have failed to impress the Prince. What the pursuing press interpreted as reticence was more probably caution, even determination. "She's reserved rather than shy," reports a former schoolmate. "She's got her own ideas, and she isn't easily swayed by what people...
...veteran of B-movies that capitalized on his blond locks and blue eyes, Hurt throws himself into his role, watching with enthusiasm as he slides toward the simian. He is strangely unafraid, but Brown makes up for his lack of fear, crying almost incessantly. Charles Haid's cameo as the skeptical colleague is the best performance in the film, though he cannot rise above the chaos that constitutes the finale...
Already the press is getting used to the way the President-elect-at least before taking office-stays in seclusion, says nothing or prudently contents himself with brief, noncommittal, cameo appearances. In his silence, others, perhaps hoping to speak for him or eager to influence him, fill the gap. The sounds to be heard all over Washington are of trial balloons collapsing and the steady drizzle of leaks...
...woman searching for her daughter and asides for pinball and pool, the conclusion of Radio On strands the roving philosophical boy on a precipice where the car refuses to budge. Dedicated to the electronic age and Fritz Lang, the film also offers Sting, the Police singer, in a brief cameo, crooning tearfully as a garage attendant in love with Gene Vincent...
...Bolivian Repression" to a crowd of seven. Their roles called instead for sincerity. They had to convince the audience they were the good guys, but not so all-American as to lose their seedy believability. They are plot devices really, showing the film and then making a few cameo appearances in court. But if anyone is interested, their motivation, at least from the moment the district attorney said 'Stop!', was honest. They knew that if they showed the film they would be arrested. They didn't show it to make money. They made their decision knowing it would probably cost...