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Maybe a shy man needs to be a populist and promise to fight for little guys. Al Gore wasn't going to be their friend, he wasn't likely to charm them; but he could be their bodyguard and protect them from polluters, swindlers, profiteers. Gore had a crisis with politics after Vietnam. He drifted through divinity school and into journalism, but as his biographer Bill Turque notes, his longtime friends saw this as just stretching the rubber band before it yanked him back to the family business. Why else practice the tricks that help you remember people's names...
...Bush's goal in mastering a new issue is to learn the lay of the land; Gore isn't convinced he knows the terrain until he runs his fingers through the soil. Bush's experience tells him there are few adversaries he cannot bring around with his irresistible charm; Gore's experience tells him there are few he cannot conquer with an irrefutable argument...
...fascinating character in the film, and Smith's performance is a pleasant surprise. As for the always-tantalizing Charlize Theron? She enhances the role of Adele by giving the character two distinct layers of complexity. At times, we see her clever, manipulative side, using her feminine sensibilities and Southern charm to manipulate the male characters around her. But when she interacts with Junuh, we see her nostalgic and vulnerable side, the part of her that was devastated when she was abandoned by the love of her life...
...Mizrahi starred in Unzipped, the documentary that took his high energy to the screen. Now he has moved it to the stage in a half-sung, half-spoken one-man show off-Broadway. Mizrahi's chief subject is his own glorious past, and he walks a fine line between charm and pathos when he brings out his first sewing machine and warbles about his need for attention His voice won't win any Tony Awards, but the show entertains because of the winning fussiness that made him a fashion legend. --By Benjamin Nugent
...fault the stars. Fraser is that lovely commodity, a big man with physical grace and an underdog charm. He's drollest in his early scenes as the consummate loser with a coprophagous grin--a character perilously close to Rob Schneider's needy-nerdy copy-machine guy on Saturday Night Live years ago. (Similarly, O'Connor looks so much like the younger Kathie Lee Gifford that she could be accused of face-lifting.) Hurley slinks through her role with the purr and swagger of a dominatrix in the Profumo years. Her lithe body has the sexy lines that are often missing...