Word: charming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Livingston) has done Hamlet off-Broadway; now, if he's lucky, he can play Goofy at Disneyland. Sue (Patrick Van Horn), perhaps compensating for his girl's name, picks fights with punks. Even Trent (Vince Vaughn), the cute one, has problems; he's so at ease with his boyish charm, he's forgotten that maybe it's time, at 24, to grow...
...diner is brimming with celebrity as well as neighborhood charm...
...early days of this memoir have the charm and freedom of life lived as holiday in someone else's magic country. "My first impression of Paris was that it wasn't so much a city as a stage setting from a Broadway musical," Buchwald reports. "The sidewalk cafes were exactly as they were depicted in the magazines and movies...honking taxis, street vendors selling dirty pictures, roses, oriental rugs..." Buchwald talked his way into a job as a nightclub and film reviewer for the Herald Tribune. His career was launched. Buchwald's recollections of the Trib's scruffy Paris bureau...
...people who cannot translate the lessons of therapy into compelling prose, frustratingly little to say. Of her great passion, Richard Burton, she says their love was "precious and deeply spiritual for us both," while a dry and rather lifeless Laurence Olivier was "brimming with a kind of false charm." Bloom also devotes a chapter to her nine-year marriage to Rod Steiger, with whom she had a daughter, Anna...
...charm of Once a Thief is that nearly every moment is played with a wink--the almost nonstop score has the giddy feel of music that might accompany a Stanley Donen caper, while the clipped pace of the showdowns gives the movie the tone of a Power Rangers episode with wit. Newcomer Sergei proves himself an appealing comedian as he smugly cuts down his rivals' big plans with lines like "Keep dreamin', Serpico." The movie ends with Sergei and Holt poised for further adventures. A series maybe...