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...both times was disappointed that the restaurant, a quintessential hole-in-the-wall with no more than a dozen small tables, never managed to quite fill up. Eventually I convinced myself that in one sense, that’s almost part of Rangzen’s charm: you can go for a quiet dinner and not be crowded or forced to run into anyone...
...Real World,” the Rolling Stones, the Boston Celtics and the New England Patriots. Dave, one of his assistants, says Frumin’s cell phone speed dial includes such notables as Britney Spears, Jason Mraz, Nick Carter, Ludacris and P. Diddy himself. Frumin knows how to charm a reporter: around 1 a.m. outside Europa, Frumin lets FM call Spears’ cell phone on his. She doesn’t pick up, and he says she gets so much voice mail that there’s no point in leaving a message...
...after meeting Trebek in person, Naam also chalked up the host’s patented on-screen charm to the show’s producers...
This, in microcosm, is what Crowe has been doing to moviegoers since his breakout performance in 1997's L.A. Confidential. He jerks them around with surliness, then seduces them with immense talent and charm. "Russell is very unpredictable," says Master director Peter Weir. "In life and on the screen you're never quite sure what he's going to do in any situation. It keeps you watching." Says Ron Howard, Crowe's friend and the director of 2001's A Beautiful Mind: "He's a pretty intense guy. And he is definitely, uh, well, the mood can shift...
Writer/director Eitan Gorlin based the film on many of his own experiences as a lapsed orthodox Jew in Israel. Against the odds, he has succeeded in injecting humor and charm into this coming of age story, while nonetheless endowing it with bite and a deep pessimism...