Word: charm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chinatown) directing his first feature, has photographed much of the film in close, with the light kept low. The intimate style is effective, and it helps somewhat to disguise budgetary limitations. Sparkle was made for lunch money, and it shows. What shows more prominently, though, is the distinctive charm of Actors Thomas, Cara and McKee, and the promise of a new director who managed things better than could realistically have been expected...
Mack's respect for Lawrence's intellect, charm, and sense of play yields a portrait that is not only comprehensive but compassionate, and never smacks of facile, "shrinky" cheapness. Several admirers have called Lawrence a Hamlet for our times. Mack demonstrates how the overdose of insight and self-consciousness that kept Hamlet from ever doing anything in another epoch forced Lawrence to take action in a compulsive...
...work became "very interesting" when the computer came in last year. By now, however, the bloom has come off the rose; even though the machine has splintered the time needed to track down an error in the payroll from days to smithereens of seconds, it has lost its charm for Reddy and Peixoto...
...Royal Ballet A Month in the Country, the Ivan Turgenev play about the foolish love of an older woman for a young man. Far from sad and tormented, however, Ashton's musing on middle-age folly emerges as an airy confection of elegant humor, bittersweet lyricism and charm...
...musical numbers mocks a cinematic tradition that was still in its infancy when Love Me Tonight was made. Rodgers and Hart, seemingly inexhaustibly prolific, wrote the marvelous score. You can see why Maurice Chevalier was so immensely popular; if anyone ever deserved the word 'infectious' to apply to their charm, it was he. Jeannette MacDonald's nightingale ambitions are only mildly offensive here, and there is a stretch in the picture when she's even sort of sexy--although she's nothing compared to the poutingly hungry, frustrated Myrna Loy who shows up like a surprise guest at a party...