Word: charm
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...femme action movie So Close, co-starring Shu Qi and Hong Kong's Karen Mok, Zhao plays a hacker hottie with her usual winsome charm. She (or her stunt and computer-graphic doubles) gets to pirouette over stairwell railings, jump from atop one speeding elevator to another and duel furiously with legendary villain Yasuaki Kurata. But when asked to sum up her defining characteristic?contrasted in the film with Shu Qi's beauty and sexiness, and with Karen Mok's coolness and big personality?Zhao pauses pensively, and says to her interviewer: "At the time, I really didn't know...
...head, pulls some nifty martial-arts moves and wins the match, the guy and, in the film's last scene, the cover of TIME. In My Dream Girl, a ripoff of Pygmalion, she's a ragamuffin (but still quite a muffin) who elevates silliness into a showcase for urchin charm. She ranged further in two films she made with Jiang Wen: He Ping's Warriors of Heaven and Earth, a Crouching Tiger wannabe with Zhao as a general's rebellious daughter; and Zhang Yuan's Green Tea, in which she plays two roles, a mousy student and a sexy pianist...
...Aretha Franklin? Fleetwood Mac?) There are lots of potential quibbles - like, for instance, that Aerosmith playing roadhouse blues sounds a lot like ZZ Top playing rock 'n' roll - but other than a disastrously sincere take on Jesus Is on the Main Line, Honkin' on Bobo is full of clamorous charm. Perry isn't the guitarist that Clapton is, but his picking has a slutty vocal quality that's perfect for Bo Diddley's Road Runner and Muddy Waters' I'm Ready. It also plays well off of Tyler's singing, which increasingly sounds less human and more like a rogue...
...show offers some surprises, as it quickly expands out of its one-dimensional chair-exhibit premise into the space inhabited. Architecture and architects pop out from behind the chairs themselves, while each chair offers its own charm and appeal...
...captivated a room of 2,000 people with his charm,” says Leila Chirayath ’04-’05, another friend California legislature program member. “I’ve admired him since the moment...