Word: clichs
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...these career-girl romances since Joan Crawford was a pup, and the notion that hard-driving bosses may have hearts of nougat underneath their crunchy dark chocolate coats is not exactly a novel one either. You can't blame Hathaway, who is a winsome actress, for this resort to cliché. When she has to out-maneuver Miranda's other assistant (Emily Blunt) for the most favored spot in the executive suite, she shows plenty of moxie. You're not exactly certain she knows exactly what she's doing, but you also see that she has an unacknowledged instinct...
...copped the Best Picture award at last year?s Japanese version of the Oscars. It?s set in Tokyo in the 1930s, and for a while made me nostalgic for a period I didn?t live through in a country I?ve never visited. But as 2hrs.13mins. of clichés piled up - the adorable orphan, the Santa Claus, the self-doubting artist, the tearful partings and tearier reunions - I decided I was better off where...
...characters give little evidence of breeding and education; they speak not in epigrams but in clichés. The events of the last Bourbon monarch are not dramatized, merely alluded to. Oh, all right, Schwartzman's Louis XVI says at a meeting of his ministers, raise taxes; send troops to America. The intonations, especially of the American actors, are uninflected, perfunctory. And with the polyglot ensemble of actors speaking English in American, British, French and Italian accents, the film has the feeling of the original sound track of one of those European co-productions before the Babel of voices...
...limited, less sweeping in scope and slower to take effect than grandiose political programs, but they're often more effective. They underline the truth that France is a prosperous nation whose public services are often superb and whose private companies are frequently world-beaters. And they undermine the international cliché - a cliché the French themselves like to propagate - that France is impossible to change. Bruno Parent is one of the change agents. He's a top civil servant at the Finance Ministry and played a key role in bringing about the transformations there. The failed Sautter plan would...
...foot above her head and a little to the left." As the famed creator of entire comic-book universes, Gaiman knows the importance of detail - and it is his ability to commute between them and the real world that has expanded his fan base far beyond the fantasy-fiction clichés of teen goths and pimply geeks. Whether through film adaptations of his best-selling fiction, graphic novels, children's books or screenplays, Gaiman is a hot commodity these days. Today he's in London for just 24 hours to check on the progress of Wolves and visit...