Word: demeanors
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...victim." When Lansing, who is married to director William Friedkin (The Exorcist), took the Paramount job in 1992, she continued to spin gold out of what she calls "female empowerment films" such as The First Wives Club and Double Jeopardy. She has a stern but maternal demeanor in the office. ("She can say no to you in the most endearing way," says Variety editor Peter Bart, who was a Paramount exec in the early '70s.) Lansing concedes that being a woman heavily influences the kinds of movies she makes. "You have all these rational reasons why you make a movie...
...putting together a private legal practice specializing in bioethics issues when she received the call from Raffarin. Given the friction that many of France's domestic policies promise to create with its European partners, Lenoir may need all the connections and accumulated goodwill she has acquired. But her easygoing demeanor, eagerness to drop French for English to facilitate discussion and engaging discourse (perfected during teaching stints at Columbia and Yale Universities in the U.S.) should diminish the acidity of debate, though perhaps not resolve underlying differences. Still, bridging gaps - between right and left, women and men, France and Europe...
...Jiang is not handsome. his broad chest, bold ears and feral demeanor is Ajax rather than Paris, more like Bogie than Grant. "He has a very common face," says Chinese novelist Wang Shuo, "but somehow his face has something that represents power." China's actress-of-the-moment Zhao Wei, who has acted with Jiang twice in the past six months, confides, "I don't like this kind of man. He's too strong." And, she says, he isn't pretty either. "Everybody's face looks like some animal," she jokes. "Jiang's looks like a gorilla...
...even the most ambitious prelates. "Dziwisz isn't just the gatekeeper. He's calling major shots and major appointments," says a Vatican official, who, like his colleagues, requested anonymity. "He seems to be a quiet, faithful secretary. And I think he is. But even with his quiet demeanor, he has incredible power--and uses it." He reportedly blocked one bishop's appointment to a key post because he considered that priest more vital to the Pope's personal needs...
...flock to the courtroom because it's the only chance they have to bask in the aura of the man they still consider their spiritual father. "It was always hard to tell what he was thinking," says one of them, Hiroshi Araki, trying to explain Asahara's puzzling demeanor. "He never did what you expected...