Word: charmingly
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...energy keep the audience's hearts racing as well breaking--the image of the field workers suddenly bursting out dancing, even without drums to accompany them, is a hard to forget image, and one that echoes with the production's message of triumph despite extreme adversity. Plus, the unexpected charm and charismatic talent of drummers David Peter Chapman and Dennis J. Dove in "The Panhandlers" draws smiles and applause from theatergoers...
...cover the "Rat Pack" phenomenon. "Ocean's Eleven" gets an edge for a semblance of plot and a winning turn by Cesar Romero as kingpin Duke Santos. "Robin" has some good musical numbers. Both are ultimately dragged down by too many flat spaces and an over-reliance on Pack charm to fill them...
Jerry: No, I'm through. I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace. Do you know what I'm talking about...
...year-old beat out 4,000 other hopefuls in MTV's massive publicity stunt disguised as an open audition for a new veejay, largely on the strength of his voice (think of a cockatiel doing Marge Simpson) and spacy but undeniable charm...
...beguiling, and many will find it so. But in this viewer's alternative reality, Sliding Doors is way too strained, in narrative logic and in performance, to work. Paltrow either whines or twinkles; Hannah works overtime at being winsome; Lynch has not even a pinch of larcenous charm; Tripplehorn is reduced to stridency and humiliation. The actors appear to be on trial for unknown offenses, and what could be blithe and affecting instead comes on like--oh, like the Spanish Inquisition...