Word: charmingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once these characteristics seemed at worst material for mild jokes (Reagan has told some of the funniest), at best part of the charm and uncluttered vision that made him an effective leader. His oblivious attitude and shaky understanding of issues has long been a public secret; indeed it is the worrisome basis for his defense of himself from any Iranscam culpability. But even if his poor concentration is no worse than it has been for years, the problems it has recently caused and the sense of drift that has emerged make it a matter of concern once more...
...this quirky storytelling device meant to lend intellectual gloss to an apparently slight tale? Is Playwright A.R. Gurney Jr., whose works (The Dining Room, The Perfect Party) are often short on incident but long on sly allusion and will-o'-the-wisp charm, once again slipping away from consummation of a plot? Beneath the winsome comedy, Gurney is playing with the Whitmanesque notion that each man contains multitudes. When the two Sues contemplate a nude sketch of the boy -- all that lingers from the maybe affair -- what they term "very good" is not just his lithe body or their rendering...
...gross $50 million and is a strong contender for Oscar nominations. Maurice, which is also an adaptation of an E.M. Forster novel, will cost even less, $2.5 million, and feature two relatively unknown actors, James Wilby as Maurice and Hugh Grant as Clive, his first romance. "Ismail has tremendous charm and substitutes it for the lack of money," explains Helena Bonham Carter, 20, one of the stars of A Room with a View. "You might not get paid very much, but you tend to believe in what you're making. And he feeds you very well...
...from its producer and star, Paul Hogan, for less than $4 million. But Mancuso and his executives made the crucial choice to release the Australian film as a full-scale commercial effort in 871 theaters, rather than as an art-house sideline. Paramount also shrewdly capitalized on the sunny charm of Hogan, sending him on a twelve-city tour to generate human interest in the film amid a television and print advertising blitz. The studio's $5 million p.r. investment has been returned manyfold. Says Paramount's Tanen: "We worked this poor man unmercifully. But Americans took a liking...
...hear. As former aides cloaked themselves in the Fifth Amendment, and new revelations poured forth, Reagan kept repeating that he wanted all the facts to emerge. Yet he did nothing on his own to break open the mysteries. Revealing an insouciance that is the dark side of his charm, he told a friend, "I watch every day like everybody else to find out what will come out. I'm as puzzled and interested as anybody...