Word: cutely
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cute about it? Of course he's a liability." -- Kathy Karpan, Democratic candidate for Governor in Wyoming
...Dunne invents a child star named Blue Tyler (born Melba Mae Toolate, or perhaps not, because her birth mother is supposed to have sold her as an infant to a Mrs. Toolate for the price of a bus ticket out of -- maybe -- Yuma, Arizona). Blue isn't cute like Shirley Temple (that "midget in drag," as one of Dunne's wise-guy industry types calls Blue's competition). Rather, she conveys adult sexuality to an unsettling degree, in part because a botched tonsillectomy (by the studio doctor who will one day perform her abortions) gives her Marlene Dietrich's voice...
...tell she thinks about the situations her character is in and intelligently communicates in through her expressive face. Majorino inevitably reminds me of another Shirley Temple. Cute, funny, while capable of serious emotion, I only hope she is able to break the glass ceiling which prevents so many childhood actors from continuing with their careers...
...Shadow," starring Alec Baldwin and Penelope Ann Miller. Penelope, baby, return to being cute and cuddly, we like you better as a comedienne than as a blonde. Entertaining, but not too deep...
...aware of that, nor can they see that his meals are metaphors for love; they see them as a form of torture added to their other torments. The eldest, Jia-Jen (Kuei-Mei Yang), is a spinster schoolteacher, pining for a lost love but beginning to moon over the cute new gym teacher. The youngest, Jia-Ning (Yu-Wen Wang), is rebelling by working in a fast-food restaurant and taking a lover who reads Dostoyevsky and rides a motorcycle. In the middle is Jia-Chien (Chien-Lien Wu), interrupting her yuppie bustle for liaisons that can't go anywhere...