Word: charming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...root for a man capable of murder and deceit. Dressed like an Olympic coach from the former Soviet Union, Alexis Susman as the Dutch psychic Helga Ten Dorp, delivers the play's most amusing lines with appropriate timing and sense of mock seriousness. Benjamin's slick, swaggering and sleazy charm make him a convincing pretty-boy writer and conspirator...
...producers may have done it on purpose, butthe fact that Mike has a funnier movie to workwith than Joel does makes him seem like a peppierpresence. Part of Joel's charm was hissluggishness during the comedy bits, but Mikebrings a brisker pace, as well as a deeper voice,to the show...
...while movie moguls gossip about the wife of a top studio executive and a national politician. The interior is pure beachfront eclectic, crammed with mismatched furniture, bullhorns, rubber snakes, paintings of World War II flying aces, antique mirrors, numberless pieces of nautical kitsch. It's not only the campy charm, the soulful coffee or the cheap and un-California-ishly cholesterol-rich menu that keeps this dive jumping among the surfer and industry-big-shot set. The real attraction is 72-year-old proprietor Bill Fischler, who lords over his young cook Alfredo and his gorgeous Valkyrian waitress Veronica while...
...Initially, yes. With The Bride, I felt like I wanted to talk about the tribals, about the people hidden away by hills. Similarly about the Parsis, I felt, "Here's this endangered little species and they have some charm," and I wanted to tell a story about them. So I said, "Let me write about them," because as far as I knew there's nothing written about them, so it was the first book about Parsis as such. I think the only other book was at that time a book for young adults by Farokh Dande called Poona Company...
...love it. Houston is a comfortable city in terms of parking space and you don't have to stand in long queues to get into cinemas. But I loved New York also when I was there. They both have their own charm. I like a lot of things about America. I love Cambridge. I was in Cambridge for two years...