Word: charming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...animated movies are (some 60 animators worked on A Bug's Life, for instance), Stanton says it is Lasseter's sensibility that pervades both Toy Story and A Bug's Life. "He truly gets it. He has both the kid's perspective and the filmmaker's perspective. The childlike charm and the maturity, that's John." The payoff is that animation, long considered a kiddie medium, is attracting adults. Some 35% of the Bug's Life audience on the Friday after Thanksgiving were teens or adults--without kids...
...Vince Vaughn is Norman Bates--two lonely people who want something from each other and, fatally, get it. Like some of the other actors here, Heche doesn't know the value of seductive repose; she's fidgety, shallow. But Vaughn (a taller, creepier Billy Crystal) understands Norman, his naive charm, his need to watch women, become them, then mete out punishment for the transgression. And William H. Macy is fine as the prying detective. But does any man still wear a hat these days...
...contains a recording of Vladimir Horowitz playing the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 during World War II. The performance is fanatical and wild--in sharp contrast to Van Cliburn's rendition, recorded after his famed competition win in Moscow in 1958, which is tender, lyrical and full of the charm that captivated the Russians. Similarly, Great Pianists traces the varying interpretations of Chopin through the century--from Ignaz Friedman (tempestuous, uncontrolled) to Artur Rubinstein (cool, modern and free of excess) to Claudio Arrau (full, rich, warm). Given enough time, this collection proves, styles have a way of coming full circle...
Malcolm took charge in 1964 and found the go-go '60s a perfect platform for stories about swaggering entrepreneurs very much like himself. He put more emphasis on stock-market advice and edgy corporate pieces and used charm, guile and arm twisting to ratchet ad sales. He also promoted the hell out of his magazine, becoming the most influential Harley biker, hot-air balloonist and Faberge-egg collector...
...body, however, is simply a shell. He is constantly awkward; whether it's trying to make conversation, eating or even walking--Joe just doesn't seem smooth. Somehow, however, he manages to charm Susan again, who strangely accepts the fact that the random man from the coffee shop has taken residence in her house and suddenly forgotten how to speak English. Moreover, she manages to flirt her way into a full-fledged romance, one consummated by a sex scene so uncomfortable that it's more nauseating than erotic...