Word: charm
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...can?t tidy up his apartment. Off he goes to a resort in Hawaii, doing his best to forget his troubles. Naturally, Sarah is shacked up there with Peter?s replacement, a hirsute, laid-back and slyly egomaniacal rock star named Aldous, who is played with an oddly insinuating charm by British comic Russell Brand. Peter attempts to learn surfing, drinks to excess and spies clumsily on the lovers. He has quite a lot on his plate - so much so that he for a long time ignores a very tempting side dish, a hotel receptionist named Rachel (the lovely Mila...
Third Time's the Charm...
...character with ironic expertise. The same can be said of Church, who knows how to do slackers, without seeming to be one as an actor. Paradoxically, he's an energetic slob. Parker probably has the toughest assignment here, as a smart woman making a dumb choice. But she has charm and perkiness and if she doesn't entirely persuade us to suspend disbelief, she at least gets us to elide...
...third time's clearly the charm. In finally selecting the government's third nominee to run the central bank, Japan has acted in the nick of time. Amid a global economic crisis, the sigh of relief is almost audible in Tokyo following the decision of the world's second largest economy not to continue to lose face in the week leading up to Friday's Group of Seven finance ministers' meeting in Washington...
...Hagee, whose views on Catholicism caused controversy for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain when he endorsed the Arizona Senator, didn't charm many Palestinians, either - not even the Christians among them - when he said that "turning all or part of Jerusalem over to the Palestinians would be tantamount to turning it over to the Taliban." So much for the fate of Jerusalem being on the agenda of the Bush Administration's peace initiative...