Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Certainly it never does so as fairly as this picture does. Encouraged by his mentor, Leonard's character defies parental and school authority to reach out for his dream (he wants to be an actor, not the doctor his father insists he must become) and finds that it is beyond...
The peaceful character of the sit-in was a tribute to the political skills of the student leaders. When three youths defaced a huge portrait of Mao in the square with blotches of red and black paint, students handed the vandals over to the People's Armed Police for punishment...
That's pretty much the movie. Peters is cute and irresistible, Eastwood is cute and irresistible, and then the two of them, like ballet dancers, are cute together. Peters' character has a baby, who is cute too, but the kid still has a lot to learn. Everyone plays off stereotypes...
So begins The Good Times, the second installment of Baker's memoirs. The first, Growing Up (1982), won a Pulitzer Prize, stayed on best-seller lists for nearly a year, and remains a masterstroke of unpretentious autobiography. It too got its direction from the character of Lucy Elizabeth Baker, the...
Connery's arrival opened the script up to puckish revisions, as when Henry reveals he has slept with Elsa, with whom Indy has also dallied. At a "Huh?" of disbelief from Indy, Henry preens defensively, protesting, "I'm as human as the next man." Indy growls back, "I was the...