Word: charmingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long time ago, Sylvester Stallone had charm: a down and out actor playing a down and out fighter. He wins the girl, and Rocky wins the Oscar. Horatio Alger at 6'2", 202 pounds. But newspapers soon reported that Stallone left his wife after he graced Newsweek's cover. Then he appeared in easily forgettable films like F.I.S.T. and Victory, making it easy not to like him too much. Rocky III makes it easier, even if, as reported, Sylvester and Sasha have decided to give their marriage one more...
...evidence of this film, no. Instead of elfin simplicity, Director John Huston offers production numbers full of empty extravagance, a host of familiar characters (like Punjab and the Asp) with little to do-and a chorus of baby Mormans knowingly strutting their stuff, breaking the sound and charm barriers...
...these players decide to go pro? It can't be that they think they will be more admired. How could they? The NBA is an infinitely less classy outfit. Instead of announcers with the wit and charm of Billy Packer, the pros give us Johnny Most, the man with more chins than he has irritating phrases...
...Neal occasionally overcomes the film's limitations; his timing is good--though not his lines, which are penned by La Cage Aux Folles' Francis Veber. La Cage dealt with effeminate homosexual homebodies, too. But Veber fails to recapture any of that film's charm and wit. Most important, Veber presented the characters in La Cage affectionately. Partners is, if anything, mean-spirited. It doesn't introduce a single homosexual who isn't rendered weak-kneed or babbling by O'Neal's chest, eyes or "fabulous" thighs...
...PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES or incumbent chief executives have used the media more skillfully than Ronald Reagan, whose carefully cultivated image of easygoing charm has helped him dissociate himself in part from the devastating impact of some of his domestic initiatives. Recently, however the president overstepped the wide bounds of media propriety, showing rather plainly that, it is his image---not the accuracy of the information the American people receive that remains upmost in his mind...