Word: cutely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most consistently entertaining parts of the play are the gossipy girl-talk scenes between Portia (Diane Paulus) and her, uh "nurse." Nerissa (Rebecca Clark)--their pouty cutdowns of Portia's suitors are hilarious, and Paulus' rendition of "My Heart Belongs to Daddy," is a cute touch within the context of the play. Paulus gives the most consistently impressive performance in the play even though she has a broken arm, in cast and sling...
...finger of film-fame fate fell on Helen Slater, yet another graduate of the much "Famed" High School of the Performing Arts in New York. Her performance shows the trademarks of that institution's actors: mere competence so polished that all traces of character have been rubbed out. Slater, cute as she is, overwhelms the film with her dullness...
Albert Brodsky (Ryan O'Neal) and Lucy Van Patten (Shelley Long) "meet cute," in the traditional manner of romantic comedies. He is a film scholar hitchhiking to a job at UCLA. She's an aspiring writer who picks Albert up and marries him four days later. Little Casey (played by Drew Barrymore when she reaches dialogue age) and the career moves quickly follow. The film is at its knowing, uncynical best as it observes Albert parlaying his knowledge of movie trivia into a career as an authentic au-teur-especially of his own misery. Lucy, the girl...
...somewhat obnoxious kids, but taste sometimes get pushed aside by desperate lunges for the cheap laugh, as in, "What's that smell coming out of your sleeping bag?" At times funny, the gross-out school gets simply disgusting at times: contrary to unpopular opinion, explicit vomit scenes aren't cute...
They sure did ? more than 40% out of an average combined income of $173,000 a year. (Instead of a telephoned apology, Will sent a dozen pink roses and a note: "Has anyone told you that you are cute when you're mad?" Ferraro's reply: "Vice Presidents are not cute.") The couple declared a net worth of $3.78 million, nearly all of it in real estate. They did not release copies of the IRS forms that Zaccaro files in connection with his businesses. Only those documents, experts say, would depict the full scope of his holdings and financial...