Word: charming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Charm, ingratiation and candid confession of past sins are also part of the persuasive skills of the title character in Mrs. Warren's Profession, a woman who has everything she wants except the respect of her newly adult daughter. Born in poverty but blessed with good looks and a raffish appeal, Kitty Warren went into prostitution and then brothel keeping. She proved to have a genius for recruiting talent and earning a steep profit, and grew to love the challenges of being a businesswoman. The role, the best Shaw ever wrote for a woman, centers on the scenes in which...
...encounters a real mummy. Too many episodes have strained for comic-book laughs revolving around TV in-jokes (some teenagers contact an outer-space civilization that is reproducing old TV sitcoms). Yet even the worst shows have had moments of wit and a let's-try-anything charm...
...Choreographer Graciela Daniele, the team that made a zonked- out Pirates of Penzance a 1981 Broadway triumph. Fully half of Holmes' songs are instantly hummable, notably the sweet Perfect Strangers and the plucky Don't Quit While You're Ahead. The show's style calls for singing and charm more than acting. That is just what it gets from Jazz Great Cleo Laine and Broadway Veterans Patti Cohenour, Betty Buckley and especially George Rose as a smug, unflappable...
...Tabard Inn. Much has changed in the past 600 years: local breweries are giving way, and contemporary wanderers are faced with more plastic and fewer local brews. Yet, as The English Pub by Rob Anderson (Viking; 111 pages; $25) makes intoxicatingly clear, a good deal of old English charm remains. More than 30,000 public houses continue to offer wayfarers in England an inimitable hospitality, glowingly captured in Photographer Andy Whipple's color pictures. Pub exteriors may go from Tudor austerity to Victorian baroque, and the signs swing from the Cat and Custard Pot Inn to the Parson's Nose...
...Camelot label, though, doesn't do justice to West Hollywood, whose charm and eccentricity extend far beyond matters of affectional preference. Says Severyn Ashkenazy, who owns a string of small, elegant hotels in Beverly Hills and West Hollywood: "At night, downtown Los Angeles is dead and Beverly Hills is boring. West Hollywood is the place for those who are interested in night life and in meeting different kinds of people, creative people." He adds, in the ultimate compliment for one educated and accented in Paris, "It's the Left Bank of Beverly Hills...