Word: charms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Betsy Palmer makes the perfect Aunt Alicia, her every movement about the stage a miniature dance, her overflowing charm an endearing antidote to Alicia's more biting lines, her every movement about the stage practically a miniature dance. In what could easily be the most dated and even offensive scene in Gigi, "The Contract Song," where she negotiates Gigi's marriage arrangements with Gaston's lawyer, Palmer establishes herself as the unquestioned star of this show, a brilliant standard that Jourdan never matches...
...unlocked Fascist prisons. Kidnaping is a cottage industry, monks fake relics, and omertà, the code of silence, is so pervasive that strangers often cannot get directions to their hotels. Casting a large shadow over all this is Puzo's Don Croce Malo, a model of the fatal charm and intricate cunning of a successful mafioso...
...Cheever offspring, and apparently the one most intimately involved with her father. She has published three well-reviewed novels, and worked as a journalist for Newsweek. In 1977, she wrote the cover story Newsweek ran on Cheever that painted him as a cultivated literary bonhomme exuding all the charm and complacency of the Boston Brahmin upbringing he never...
...aren't as perfect as their students might fashion them to be. More than once, Vinnie wants to tell her new love that, despite his protestations to the contrary, she really isn't very nice. They meet on a transatlantic flight, in fact, not because of Vinnie's natural charm but despite her best efforts, so typical of the tenured academic set, to put him off. She would deny him even a glance at her newspaper, were she not unfamiliar with the proper form of that particular snub. And the more physical manifestations of love-well. Vinnie still finds...
THOUGH THE Salkinds may not have realized it at the time, finding Reeve was a luckier break than getting the Newmans. Almost the perfect physical match for a Superman, he could project the boyish charm that made both the ego-busting muscleman and the nebbish newsman palatable and credible. Underneath the red and blue Reeve kept enough of the sly midwestern farm boy to make Superman's schizophrenic life a myth rooted in the American ideals of silent strength and self-effacing mannerisms. None of the Superman films ever fully descended into campy self-parody, because Reeve made...