Word: cutely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ally McBeal, she's so cute you sometimes want to throttle her. On the New York stage just now--in a 35-min. monologue, the first of three short plays by filmmaker Neil LaBute titled Bash--she plays a woman who confesses to a horrific crime, yet by the end you want to give her a sympathetic hug. Sitting at a starkly lit table, apparently in a police station, Calista Flockhart doesn't take long to shed her Ally affectations. Talking in a flat Midwestern twang, she recounts with grueling matter-of-factness how she was seduced by a teacher...
...virtually invented movie stardom. It was Pickford who first kindled the wildfire of film-fan ardor; Charlie Chaplin, no doubt greater, was also later. And it was the 5-ft. pixie, known for playing cute or pathetic little girls, who first made the moguls pay huge sums for talent. "No--I really can not afford to work for only $10,000 a week," she coyly told Adolph Zukor of Famous Players in 1915, when that was real money...
...what about fathers who want to balance responsibilities at the office with those at home? Business Dad: How Good Businessmen Can Make Great Fathers (and Vice Versa), by Tom Hirschfeld with Julie Hirschfeld (Little, Brown), attempts to reconcile the briefcase and the diaper bag. The book is sometimes too cute by half--thank goodness, there's no real degree known as a Master of Baby Administration--but Hirschfeld gives useful advice to the businessman who wants to make a difference in his children's life. "Companies get bought and sold," he counsels, "but family is permanent, for better or worse...
...bring your high school yearbook, but be careful. If you think it would be a cute conversation piece, then go ahead. But be aware that when your new Harvard friends page through it, they will see that dorky picture of you in the cafeteria with a wad of spinach stuck between your teeth. Then you'll be sorry...
...mouth is too small to carry a newspaper. In fact, he has no practical applications at all, though Sony hopes developers may one day produce upgrades. Then again, the current AIBO is the kind of pet that I (and 2,000 others) like--utterly useless, and utterly cute. Guess I'll have to settle for a hamster...