Word: charms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...limited. Regan once ordered two of his senior Treasury deputies to clear their press contacts through his trusted public affairs assistant, Ann McLaughlin. (McLaughlin, now Interior Department Under Secretary, is a leading candidate to become Regan's deputy at the White House.) While Regan can turn on his gruff charm and provide as lively an interview as anyone else in the Administration, he is seldom inclined to do so. In sharp contrast to Baker, whose mastery of keeping the news-hungry White House press corps satisfied is unsurpassed in Washington, Regan considers time spent responding to reporters' questions a waste...
...Francisco. The show is being touted as 1985's answer to the Mary Tyler Moore Show, a boast that can most charitably be described as optimistic. Davis, a tall brunet with an annoying habit of talking into her chest, has little of Mary's tough-but- vulnerable charm, and the gag lines would have embarrassed the crowd at WJM- TV. (A friend, chiding Sara for taking low-paying cases, wonders if she has something against making money: "Did something happen when you were a kid? Were you attacked by a $10 bill?") Bronson Pinchot, currently winning acclaim...
...once, the perfect Southern gentleman and the easygoing good ole boy. Trim, handsome and carefully dressed, he can exude the effortless charm of a man comfortable with wealth and power even as he chews a wad of Red Man tobacco, spitting the juice into a paper cup. A well-educated scion of a prominent line of Houston attorneys, he enjoys fishing with his buddies in the waters of Matagorda Bay and hunting wild turkey on his land near San Antonio. He is a managerial mastermind who relaxes by watching pro football games and listening to Tammy Wynette records...
...waiting. Over in the Oval Office, her husband had just finished the most consequential diplomatic meeting of his first term, last fall's tete-a-tete with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Now, for a few minutes, she was to do her duty as First Lady, to greet and charm the visitor from Moscow...
Reinking, who has one of the best bodies but--orst voices in film, executes her rate efficiently. She has an enormous amount of resilient charm but no comic timing, or comic presence of any sort. In all of her scenes with Moore she exudes a dry earnestness that seems quite lawyerly, but that dulls Moore's comic sheen. Thankfully the peculiarly pulchritudinous Irving can effectively play the foil to Moore's neurotic mannerisms. She possesses a wry vulnerability that suggests she's a lot of fun but a danger to play with. As for Moore, he looks shorter, funnier...