Word: charms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...story brings together a gifted, high-minded screenwriter and a no- talent hustler with feckless charm and terminal greed. Guess which comes out on top? The rest of the plot is equally unsurprising: the screenwriter's sanctimonious wife, a publishing executive, abandons all her principles in pursuit of material success, and so on. What makes Emerald City striking is that Williamson has the gift he attributes to his onstage surrogate: an ability to bring characters alive. He is aided by beguilingly energetic performances from Daniel Gerroll as the screenwriter and Dan Butler as the hustler...
...Yasser Arafat picking up some new tricks from Mikhail Gorbachev? In his own version of a charm offensive, the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization held an unlikely and surprisingly cozy meeting in Stockholm with five prominent American Jews -- and appeared more agreeable than ever. The question as he heads toward a major performance before a specially convened U.N. General Assembly session in Geneva this week: Is it for real...
Feinstein enhances the book's charm with his clever anecdotes about the game's many characters. His style rivals some of the country's best columnists...
...talk. Ungeheuer left immediately for Jupiter, Fla., where Johnson was spending a holiday away from the fray, for a one-hour talk about the megadeal. Ungeheuer has met other big dealmakers in his 25 years of covering business for TIME, but he was struck by Johnson's persuasive charm. "Despite questions about the amount of money that Johnson stands to make if his bid succeeds," says Ungeheuer, "I could understand how he has been able to convince his backers that his proposal makes perfect sense...
Like Airplane!, Naked Gun turns everything into a gag. Drebin can't park his car or pick up a pen without something calamitous happening. Many of the gags, in fact, are obvious, but that's part of the film's charm; the movie operates on bringing out the silliness of the rote plots and personalities that characterize endless episodes of TV cop shows...