Word: charming
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...character with ironic expertise. The same can be said of Church, who knows how to do slackers, without seeming to be one as an actor. Paradoxically, he's an energetic slob. Parker probably has the toughest assignment here, as a smart woman making a dumb choice. But she has charm and perkiness and if she doesn't entirely persuade us to suspend disbelief, she at least gets us to elide...
...third time's clearly the charm. In finally selecting the government's third nominee to run the central bank, Japan has acted in the nick of time. Amid a global economic crisis, the sigh of relief is almost audible in Tokyo following the decision of the world's second largest economy not to continue to lose face in the week leading up to Friday's Group of Seven finance ministers' meeting in Washington...
...Hagee, whose views on Catholicism caused controversy for the presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain when he endorsed the Arizona Senator, didn't charm many Palestinians, either - not even the Christians among them - when he said that "turning all or part of Jerusalem over to the Palestinians would be tantamount to turning it over to the Taliban." So much for the fate of Jerusalem being on the agenda of the Bush Administration's peace initiative...
...more fun - maybe more simple humanity - to be found in the formative years of mighty enterprises (the movie business is an equally good example), before the sober men in suits take charge. This shift in tone is not entirely fatal to the movie, for Clooney's coolly scheming charm remains intact, and Zellweger gives as good as she gets in their exchanges. I also think that we are witnessing a star-making performance - loose, easy and avoiding the threat of smugness that lurks in his role - from John Krasinski. Maybe the film loses a little steam as it rolls along...
...begins. In a tuxedo jacket with an undone bowtie dangling by the tulip in his lapel, Wallach croons with the exaggerated sincerity of a lounge singer, bombarding the crowd with off-color charm, lazy-eyed smiles, and an eager but ill-timed joke about Eliot Spitzer...