Word: charming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tragedy is that softball, for all its charm, is not as good a sport as baseball. Baseball's longer distances allow for more bizarre plays, more errors, more excitement. There is less grace in softball. With distances so short, speed and timing...
...with Julian Holloway's cutesy capering as Eliza's debauched father, Dolores Sutton's vamping as Higgins' mother and sets that make the Covent Garden flower market look like a Florida condo in mid- construction and render Higgins' study fit for a Vincent Price horror flick, Chamberlain shows calculated charm and wit. He sings better than Rex Harrison and looks terrific. His best scenes are with the normally bland Pickering, whom Paxton Whitehead makes droll...
...corrupt long before Norma got to him. In Los Angeles, Alan Campbell's selling out is much more of an emotional journey. As Betty, the budding screenwriter with whom Gillis has a professional rebirth and fleeting flirtation, Judy Kuhn can do no wrong. As Max, George Hearn finds charm and humor in an all-but-monocled Prussian stereotype...
...reads "awe" and says "awr," but that just adds to the charm. Murphy is not buying into this Harvard mystique, not just yet. And that's a very good thing...
...suffering too badly. All it takes to be a right-winger here is to rewrite history, to turn Abigail Adams into a submissive hausfrau and strip the Confederate Flag of all its racist overtones. To paraphrase Molly Ivins, afflicting the afflicted and comforting the comfortable may have the charm of novelty, but it's not exactly courageous...