Word: charms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some of the former models can actually act. Selleck reminds anyone within earshot that he studied the craft for 15 years. On-camera, he has the charm and unthreatening masculinity of a slightly more serious Burt Reynolds. Others are getting on-the-job training. "I try as hard as I can, but I see where I need improvement," says Barton. Still others, like the wooden Scalia, appear to have graduated from the Ali MacGraw School of Thespian Arts. "I would have preferred it if Scalia had had some acting experience," admits Thurm, who brought him into television. "But we weren...
...seen as avatars of the outlaw lovers in Frank Borzage's Moonrise or Nicholas Ray's They Live by Night. Like the greasers, The Outsiders often seems to be busily, handsomely going nowhere. Coppola, however, is generous with his fine young actors (excepting Dillon, whose coltish charm is fast becoming a festival of Method mannerisms). It is easy to sense Coppola's identification with these boys, and with the feeling of going it alone against all odds that has made this protean writer-director-producer Hollywood's most famous and flamboyant outsider. -By Richard Corliss
...family should have this dilemma: 30 years after deserting you, Dad shows up on your stoop with six months to live and $687,000 in cash to buy his way back into your affections. This latest in Neil Simon's fantasies of generation-gap bridgework runs mainly on charm, not on the bile and bathos that fueled Only When I Laugh and I Ought to Be in Pictures. Jason Robards, the errant father, is as resourcefully genial as a Damon Runyon Santa Claus; Donald Sutherland keeps his dimples flexed playing a policeman who demonstrates his love of literature...
...spring again. And look what the Easter bunny has brought all the way from France: Daddy's illegitimate son. Product of a mad moment a decade ago, little Jean-Claude arrives wearing a heavy coat of wistfulness atop his natural Gallic charm. His mother, you see, has died of Segal's syndrome (named after the author of Love Story, in whose calculating and sentimental mind this new imposition first arose), and all that stands between the lad and orphanhood is Bob Beckwith's willingness to do the decent thing by getting his wife and daughters to accept...
...problem with this species of charm is that it does not fill a concert stage, let alone the Broadway theater where Aznavour is beginning his tour of nine American cities (including Chicago, Washington and Los Angeles). Singing standards like Yesterday When I Was Young, The Old Fashioned Way and She is not enough to justify a solo stint on the grand scale. The star need not wear a mermaid's tail and wriggle in a wheelchair, as Bette Midler did in her recent socko turn at Radio City Music Hall. One needs simply to magnetize the spectator. Midler...