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...Something to Talk About' has been hailed by reviewers as the best picture from Julia Roberts since 'Pretty Woman.' But Roberts' Southern charm is nearly eclipsed by the spectacular performance turned in by Kyra Sedgwick, who plays Roberts' sister. If this movie doesn't make Sedgwick a blockbuster star, nothing ever will...
Gingrich has spent more than 70 hours trying to charm and calm the opposition, from Blue Cross and Blue Shield to the American Medical Association. The 32 million-member AARP was the greatest challenge. Gingrich's diplomatic offensive began last March in the first of three private sessions with the lobby's leadership. Gingrich did not exactly wave an olive branch, but did manage to sound as if he genuinely wanted to cooperate. John Rother, the AARP's chief lobbyist, summarizes the message this way: "The Speaker told our board, 'I can't revolutionize Medicare over your opposition...
...handles every punch that an over-acting Tom Arnold delivers with a measure of charm and humor that can't help but make an audience laugh out loud...
...work together? I certainly hope it is the latter, but only time will tell." At the same time, she has been painstakingly cautious in her statements. She confessed to a natural affinity for the military because her father, Burmese nationalist hero Aung San, was a general. Her charm offensive was extraordinary -- but how will the junta react when the iron-willed Suu Kyi starts speaking more freely? "They have been known to misjudge the situation very badly," says Zunetta Liddell, a researcher for Human Rights Watch/Asia in London, "and I think they may have done...
...movie, Four Weddings and a Funeral, and in his eight-year amour with model Elizabeth Hurley. Snarly musclemen and tortured teen types, the Stallones and Depps, are supposed to misbehave; it's part of their public profile. But when the sinner is an Oxford grad peddling a boyish, domestic charm--the last good hope of vanishing gentility--he can expect to face the rude music. On his field trip into the Sunset night, Grant went out of character, played disastrously against type, punctured a popular illusion. As many moviegoers saw it, he didn't cheat on Hurley so much...