Word: charmlessness
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...acting, Coburn seems to have calculated his performance on a snide rule, Richard Benjamin reasserts his claim to being the movies' most charmless leading man, and Raquel Welch is perfectly cast as a bad actress...
Athens Apex. The talk starts smoothly at the reception Doxiadis gives on the evening before embarkation. His triplex apartment is on the highest rooftop on the highest street in Athens. His guests look out on painfully appropriate urban contrasts: from marble-and-plate-glass luxury across the charmless sprawl of the modern city to the ruined perfection of the floodlit Parthenon. This year former Democratic Senator William Benton was holding court on a huge sofa, playing the part he loves: the crusty old American millionaire. Former Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, now a consultant on conservation, silently contemplated a Boeotian vase...
Last year Fairchild inherited complete charge of the 76-year-old family company. Since then, combined circulation of its nine trade publications has increased 8%, to 408,000. Fairchild has applied his deft touch to such seemingly charmless journals as Footwear News and Electronic News. The publications are better to look at, easier to read, and less subservient to the industries they cover. The Fairchild Co. has lost $7,000,000 on its two most recently founded journals, Metalworking News and Drug News Weekly, but overall revenues reached $30 million last year...
...also pretends to be a Swiss shoe clerk, a termite exterminator and an Australian police inspector, meanwhile seducing a wealthy old woman's beautiful companion (Camilla Sparv), who really loves him for reasons never made clear in the script. He is characterized throughout as an alley cat so charmless that one sullied female can recall nothing about him more memorable than: "He wears a truss...
...this remake, MGM cooks the goose that laid the golden egg. Rarely have so many charmless performers been assembled. Zing, freshness, warmth, humor and yay-team vitality have been banished-presumably to please a new generation that will never know what it missed. The Garland-Rooney roles are taken over by Singers Connie Francis and Harve Presnell, who mope through the vintage show tunes as though they have memorized the words and music while disowning the message. Instead of getting-the-gang-together-to-put-on-a-dandy-show, they are paying off a gambling debt for Connie...