Word: cutely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many a kids' movie has met its downfall through cute but hopeless child actors. Luckily for "A Little Princess," incompetence is largely confined to the minor characters. Still, although Liesel Matthews is fairly good as Sara, she fails to maintain the delicate distinction between a girl that everyone falls in love with for her unaffected friendliness, and an ordinary Goody-Two-Shoes. Halfway through the movie, one simply gets tired of hearing her breathy voice and watching closeups of her preadolescent Molly Ringwaldesque lips, parted in sensitive confusion at the evils of the world...
...idea of Ryan as the comedian who copyrighted Cute is too limiting; she has dark tones in her palette as well. She's done terrific work as down-and-outers in Flesh and Bone and When a Man Loves a Woman and as the body-snatched bride in Prelude to a Kiss. The lovely wrapping is still there-but beneath it, the hint of fervid desperation, of a deep wound she both hides and nurses...
Within the play, however, the actors--each of whom, except Constance, plays several roles--demonstrate more talent than the script can readily accommodate. Lindsey Richardson's Constance is appropriately timid and awkward, and while her mannerisms tend towards the cute, this is no more than the character demands...
...been inspired by relatives from his childhood. He explained how when he was a child, these very old, frightening relatives with beady eyes and hair in their noses would come to visit for dinner. They would lean very close to him and say things like, "You're so cute I could just eat you up." They looked so threatening that the young Sendak was afraid they actually would...
...date--it's somewhere in between," says Elie M. Finegold '95-'96. "It bridges the gap between the academic world, where Harvard students are comfortable, and the social world, where they are not. Coffee is the centerpiece of sober interaction at Harvard." Coffee is liminal; you can ask the cute guy in seminar Out For Coffee with impunity, since it can be cloaked, ostensibly, in the guise of continued academic discourse. The experience can be just flirtatious enough to make it interesting, however. "Someone isn't asking you Out For Coffee just because he thinks you're a good coffee...