Word: charmers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...return home to the family business. Tom agrees, sails to Europe and, on seeing Dickie, is dazzled by his luscious indolence. Dickie paints, indifferently; he tans, splendidly; and he flirts with Marge (Paltrow), a young American who has a crush on him. Dickie is an effortless charmer who enjoys watching people try to charm him, and Tom is up to the challenge. "Dickie inherited wealth, looks and privilege," says Minghella. "Ripley inherited nothing and has nothing. He so much wants the life that Dickie has that he'll do anything to get that life...
...this autobiographical monologue, filmed by his longtime lover, filmdom's most thoughtful charmer seduces the viewer as effortlessly as he did his screen partners. The actor, who died in 1996 at 72, recalls his career with eloquence, irony and a gentle wonder. To hear him utter, with a child's reverence, the names Gary Cooper and Clark Gable is to hear a cordial peal of thunder from one Olympic peak to another. "I like people; I love life," he says. "Perhaps that is why life has loved me in return." At three hours-plus, this is the Shoah of movie...
...McCarthy (an only lightly novelized version of the real Senator) and turns out to have been fathered by a secret onetime English communist. Buckley offers not so much an ideological evaluation of McCarthy as a portrait of a live character and force of nature--country-boy chicken farmer, charmer, weasel, patriot, bully, loose cannon and for all that, the spokesman for a valid American intuition (fear, if you like). In an atmosphere compounded of the Soviet enslavement of Eastern Europe, the Hiss conviction, the detonation of the first Soviet nuclear bomb, the communist takeover of China and the invasion...
Even there, though, his role is a "smoothie charmer," for onscreen and off there is no getting away from the fact that Grant was born to be the perfect dinner-party companion; he flirts, he pays attention, he jokes about his "Austin Powers teeth," he gives the term self-deprecating a whole new meaning. People forget, for instance, that before Four Weddings, he appeared in a string of what he calls "Europuddings"--but Grant is delighted to remind us. "I was always a champagne baron for some reason," he says. "I did Judith Krantz's Till We Meet Again...
...Women's Film Festival before opening around the country May 7, is a delicate, harrowing epic in miniature; it has an artist's attention to the harsh allure of physical and psychological landscapes. Xiu Xiu would be memorable if only for its stars: Lu Lu, now 17, an elfin charmer whom Chen found studying English in San Francisco, and the Tibetan actor Lopsang as a herdsman who befriends Xiu Xiu. But the movie is more than a star-is-born showcase. This story of a girl who rolls down the slope of degradation, and finally has no power...