Word: charms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Favorite Year. A has-been movie star, played with flopsy charm by Peter O'Toole, redeems his career and character by doing a guest shot on a '50s TV variety show. It's a great comic turn, and the film, written by Norman Steinberg and Dennis Palumbo and directed by Richard Benjamin, is the year's sweetest trip down memory lane...
What accounts for the movie's enduring charm? Casablanca is, of course, a masterpiece of casting. Not only the leads but the lesser players as well are perfect, each one a small, vivid miracle of type. Fetching up their names is an old game for the trivialist: Sam (Dooley Wilson), the bartender Sascha (Leonid Kinskey), the waiter Carl (S.Z. Sakall), the jilted Yvonne (Madeleine LeBeau), the Bulgarian couple (Joy Page and Helmut Dantine), the pickpocket (Curt Bois), the croupier (Marcel Dalio...
...shtik figureggressively annoying the next, with sutures provided by background music that never lets the viewer discover a mood on his own. One can still savor the moments when Reynolds and Hawn display their easy strengths: Burt's shrugged-off sexiness and decent vulnerability, Goldie's ditsy-pixie charm and daredevil comic timing. The two should remain among the audience's best friends, even if this picture may not make many new ones...
...President must be a communicator. Reagan, by general agreement, is the best since F.D.R. Indeed, for a time in 1981, when he had Congress eating out of his hand, it seemed as though mastery of TV and one-on-one charm had become the very key to the presidency. Events and realities of 1982 suggest some limits on what a President can accomplish by communicating. TV is still a major resource for a President, more important in governing than in getting elected. Carter, Nixon and L.BJ. all won elections (two of them landslides) without being compelling TV personalities. Nixon...
...Harvard women's swimming team has set out to prove that the third time's the charm, and if Saturday's meet against Maine is any indication, third-year Coach Vicki Hays may guide the aquawomen to an Ivy title...