Word: charms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...your dreams are created of different stuff. You want to believe that life in a fairy world has no appeal, but underneath, the draw is there. Complex decisions easily give way to simplistic adventures. Responsibility wanes before life according to script. The familiarity of The Nutcracker adds to its charm; you know what happens, and you know to what tune it will happen...
...played with reptilian brio by Michael Douglas, he has some of the pile- driving charm of Michael's actor father Kirk in his early gangster roles. As it happens, the lizardly Gekko is a potential father figure for sly Fox; the other is Bud's dad, a working-class hero who is a mechanic at the small airline that Gekko may soon devour. The elder Fox is played by Charlie Sheen's own dad Martin; and to complete the motif, Stone has dedicated Wall Street (as he did Salvador) to his stockbroker father, who died two years ago. The entire...
...when Tom is asked a tough question -- and for Tom, poor soulless sensation-to-be, all questions are tough ones. As for Hunter, she graduates with honors from off-Broadway (The Miss Firecracker Contest) and off-Hollywood (Raising Arizona) to fill the center of this demanding movie with cracker charm and elfin steel. Hail, Holly: daredevil actress...
...brings to show business, customarily a craft of schmaltz and charm, one of the keenest analytic minds around. Sondheim was the kind of boy whose favorite school subject is Latin, and he grew into the sort of man who browses through dictionaries for entertainment. His love of concocting puzzles, scavenger hunts and murder-mystery games, legendary in theater circles, inspired the premise and central character of Anthony Shaffer's thriller, Sleuth, and led Sondheim and a longtime friend, Actor Anthony Perkins, to turn out their own Hollywood chiller, The Last of Sheila. Equally methodical for the stage, Sondheim does...
Versatile as she is, Bijoux has a personality as distinct and as difficult as Tallulah Bankhead's. Charm is decidedly not her main attraction. She has been afflicted with flatulence, for example, which bothers everybody but her, and when she nips at Ritter's hand, she is not necessarily acting...