Word: charme
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There is also something comforting about the one-ring, intimate setting of the BAC, where even the worse seats are still within 50 ft. of the action. Without driving the audience into sensory overload, the BAC manages to charm through its time-tested approach to circus performance, and it will be interesting to see how the trendier big tops will fare once their novelty disappears. The fact that there is no effort to either glorify or mollify the circus’s tackiness makes the BAC a perfectly dignified little show...
...TV’s “Making the Band” infamy, arrived in Bean-Town, and this city would never be the same. Never before has this historical center of democracy borne witness to a musical outfit so devoid of singing ability, good looks, humility or even charm...
...little of the old "Survivor" magic - plotting, cattiness, back-stabbing, that sort of thing - they had to work with, the editors gave us Colby, Colby, Colby (whose teeth are still remarkably white), who did his best to fill the void. The man is definitely out of Texas charm, skulking around glaring out from under an askew Mad Bomber hat and talking smack about, well, mostly talking smack about Keith. (How cooking too much rice and proposing to his girlfriend online was supposed to be good strategy, only Colby seemed to know...
...fails to replicate the genius and hilarity of There’s Something About Mary. It has numerous crashes, punches and explosions, but they aren’t as funny as one scene involving Chris Farley. It tries to make the audience love a bumbling loser, but lacks the charm of Tommy Boy. The film blatantly steals a whole scene from Silence of the Lambs—a travesty to the latter—and its constant barrage of overused redneck and gay jokes hardly exudes any originality. Besides Walken’s performance, the only other saving grace...
...Small Time Crooks, Grant is caddishly handsome as Bridget’s Cleaver, who is given sounder treatment in the movie than in the novel. Whether slyly flirting over office e-mail or whispering dirty names to his conquest, Grant displays his inner rogue with a sort of sleazy charm that seems to suit him much more than his previous “oopsy-daisy” roles as an inarticulate romantic with foppish hair...