Word: flirting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reporter was leaving, he began to joke around and flirt with her. Suddenly he unzipped his fly. -Washington Post...
...paused. I was getting comfortable with that fact too--a changeover. Yet, I had trouble sorting things out every time Mickie shimmied her shoulders at a man. Let's see--she is gay, so you expect her to flirt and lean on the bar with other women since she's a wom--oops. She's a man, she's a man, she's a gay man, so she flirts with the men at the bar. But she looks like a woman flirting with a man, for she is more a woman than she is a man. And a "woman" naturally...
...Truffaut, Marie-France Pisier, Jean Aurel and Suzanne Schiffman, the screenplay presents not so much a plot as an intermingling of the past with the present. His torrid, impossible liason with the leonine Liliane (Dani) mirrors his student infatuation with Colette (Marie-France Pisier), the bouffant-haired, Capri-painted flirt he had met 20 years before at a Berlioz Youth concert. Antoine runs past her outside the courthouse where his divorce from Christine has just been made official, only to see her at the railroad station when, always the incurable romantic, he jumps aboard her train. First seen...
...weak actors look worse perhaps because everyone around them is so good. Producers often flirt with the notion of casting a young girl as Juliet, but they come to their senses in time. Producer Cedric Messina unwisely plunged ahead. His Juliet, Rebecca Saire, is 14 and acts it. Her voice is thin, and her range of expression sadly limited. Shakespeare said Juliet was only 14, but he gave her the lines of an ardent and mature woman to speak. A less serious error was the casting of Keith Michell as Caesar's Antony. Michell is an accomplished actor...
MEASURE FOR MEASURE is a flirt--it hints at all sorts of fascinating things, but when you try to get it to look you in the eye, it slips off into the night. Sorry, buddy, maybe another time--and you're alone again...