Word: charmingly
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Turning on the Charm...
...first publication was a story called "Winter Rain" in a now-defunct magazine, Charm...
...SILVER CHARM, 3, the Preakness, by a nose over Free House. Having won the Kentucky Derby, the gray colt under jockey Gary Stevens could become the first horse since Affirmed in 1978 to win the Triple Crown...
Barker played Amanda's "persona" a bit parodically, making her endlessly repeated reminiscences and her efforts to maintain the "Southern feminine" charm of her youth seems almost gratingly ridiculous--but that is, after all, the point; Amanda's ridiculousness makes her as much a pathetic figure as a comic one. She is moreover, in her own narrow-minded way, a fighter who puts a brave if silly face on things and who stubbornly refuses to admit defeat--which makes the cruelty of her final breakdown, powerfully portrayed by Barker, all the more painful...
...Odyssey at one point during the production because he was unhappy about the script, Halmi slapped him with a lawsuit for the entire budget of the film. Assante came back, and Halmi conceded to a reworking of the teleplay. It is a testimony to the producer's wily charm that Assante harbors no ill will. "The experience," he reasons, "was very good for me. I thank him for what he did." Whether America thanks Halmi for The Odyssey, or decides that it prefers its literary-inspired mini-series confined to the novels of Jackie Collins, remains to be seen...