Word: charming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...naturalism and artifice. But Sheba remains a showcase for poignant acting. Knight attains a lumpish sweetness but does not sentimentalize her character as a victim. Bosco has little to do until his whisky-sodden storming, but radiates the disappointment that beclouds the house. Dillon blends coy charm with unhesitating selfishness...
...connections, rather than spending his time describing the details of sexual intercourse. In the manner of a writer of farce, he shuns depth to go for laughs instead. One suspects him at times of naivete, at other times of a certain sly hostility. While his writing retains a certain charm, Witches remains ultimately disappointing
...rather dim-witted Paulie, Roberts portrays a man who has never grown up to realize that thieves often get caught and that horses sired by champion studs don't always win races. But what Paulie has, that only his cousin seems to appreciate, is charm Robert's performance as Paulie is the highlight of the movie, he shows how a rather stupid person can also be imaginative and very funny. He preserveres through all his troubles because he doesn't know any other way of living. Rourke's Charlie sticks by Paulie because of a tribal instinct in which...
...here, where the bonhomie is so forced that it comes across as bullying. Though Langella and Julia occasionally mine the text for subterranean veins of grace and melancholy, Clayburgh storms about with the booming baritone and great-lady gestures of a strung-out dowager. One yearns for the buoyant charm that Vanessa Redgrave brought to the role in a 1973 London revival. But charm, alas, cannot be learned, earned or rented for the night. It is a quality as easy to perceive, and as rare to achieve, as Style. -By Richard Corliss
...writer. It was offered by a small Canadian publisher to Michael Korda, who jumped at it. Korda is the nephew of Film Producer Sir Alexander Korda. Articulate, aggressive and imperturbably assured, he makes so little secret of his ambition for recognition that friends consider it part of his Hungarian charm. Among his own bestsellers is Power! How to Get It, How to Use It, a book neither as trashy nor as clever as it sounds. Hype is Korda's natural gift ("My argument is with people who do not view the world cynically," he once said). He published...