Word: charisma
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Everything about the Partridges rings tense and true--Moore's brilliantly rendered hysteria, Cruise's near parodistic charisma when he's leading his group and, even more astonishing, the way his biographical falsities, his emotional denials crumble under probing from a gently persistent TV interviewer. Anderson knows and feels for these people in some true, instinctive...
...Asian male remains mostly ignored. If at all represented, he is usually either weak, nerdy or a crazed ninja looking to shed innocent white blood. This film scores big in bringing to American audiences an Asian male worthy of adoration for his acting, physical presence and charisma. It also should be lauded for its sensitivity in showing a range of Asian faces--not just the exotic lotus blossom of a woman, but tall, short and skinny are all in this film. The supporting cast efforts are strong and add humor and life in places where the film has potential...
...Both Leonard and Tenney are the only candidates who have the charisma and leadership necessary to galvanize the campus and bring respectability back to the council...
...lyrics, and he moves from Shakespearean verse to comic pratfalls with ease. It would be demeaning to point out that Mitchell has the best posture on Broadway, but there's something about that lean, ramrod-straight bearing that manages to both poke fun at itself and radiate real stage charisma. This new Kiss Me, Kate (Broadway's first since the 1948 original), smashingly directed by Michael Blakemore and choreographed by Kathleen Marshall, proves what Ragtime should have: Mitchell is Broadway's first great musical star of the new millennium...
...start of the campaign for the council presidency. It would be hard to argue that the current crop of would-be leaders is anything other than sorely uninspiring. Aside from the banality of the proposals and slogans being tossed around, one is struck by the parching draught of charisma one finds in the field of candidates...