Word: charms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fast Eddie, the pool shooter who told Jackie Gleason's Minnesota Fats, "I'm the best you've ever seen, Fats, I'm the best there is," is all speed and charm and thin-ice cockiness. Hud Bannon, the surly cowboy womanizer who is the turbulence at the center of Martin Ritt's 1963 film Hud, seems twice the size of Fast Eddie. He is a brawler with the looks of a fallen angel, and he sneers at emotion: "My mother loved me but she died." Hud is rotten. He is trying to have...
...Patricia may be brain damaged but as her father puts it, her body is that of an attractive young woman." a fact certainly not lost on Martin. To be in a position to take advantage of Patricia's obvious helplessness. Martin must first deploy his arsenal of obsequious-schoolboy charm on Mrs Bates("can I call you... mumsey?"). "I love house work its's such a-a peaceful art" he exclaims rapturously, eyes rolling upwards...
...this way out and naive enough to like their chances. Most fighters are strangely vulnerable. So wishful and sincere, they are eternally easy marks for the users, the chiselers, Frankie Carbo, Blinky Palermo and all their current counterparts. Yet many people regard boxing's corruption as its charm and find the scoundrels colorful and delightful. Nobody really worries...
...single flaw spoils the film--the character actors perform up to par, the French countryside is breathtaking, and Marie's development proceeds with innocuous charm. Yet Morreau gets so caught up in every little detail of Marie's summer experience that her film begins itself to seem a little adolescent...
...agent, and I had a drink, which I'm not supposed to do." An elderly gentleman in gray-green country tweeds and brown suede shoes, he rolls his eyes, as if he is sharing a dark and wicked secret, and wraps his visitor in a furry mantle of charm. Even on a first encounter, Laurence Olivier has, as one of his friends observes, a gift of intimacy...