Word: geniality
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...Marie," 1929. The dawn broke for this genial lilter with a waltz-time hit (#2) by Rudy Vallee. Then the moon in all its splendor shone on Berlin in 1937, when a Tommy Dorsey version, in swingin' 4/4 time, reached #1. It was also a #13 charter for the Four Tunes in 1953 and a #15 for the Bachelors in 1965 - 36 years after its first appearance...
...wonder they always save the best for last. The premier monster in Monsters, Inc. is not a hairless green ogre, however, but the esteemed James P. Sullivan, nicknamed “Sulley” (John Goodman)—a genial hulk with long blue fur and purple spots, always accompanied by his loyal but absent-minded Scare Assistant, Mike Wakowski (Billy Crystal), who resembles a one-eyed green pea. Both work for Monsters, Incorporated—an energy plant in the well-run township of Monstropolis, managed by a certain Henry J. Waternoose (James Coburn), who scuttles around...
...presiding like the nicest homeroom teacher was Dick Clark, just 26 when he took over the show. Calming, genial, sweet-faced and way cleverer than he appeared, Clark was the Ike of teens - a canny conduit to spread the social and sonic threat of rock 'n roll from kids' bedrooms into the nation's living rooms. Jerry Lee Lewis might come on, pound away at "Great Balls of Fire" and flip his head forward, letting his hair spill over his face like a thick blond veil. (I can still recall a delicious roiling in my stomach when I saw this...
...Family" and "Maude," is a dapper, droopy-mustached man of 50 with the comedy writer's congenital air of melancholy, like a sensitive spaniel; he tends to be the spokesman for the team. Yorkin, 46, who concentrates on being executive producer of "Sanford" at NBC, is a beefy, genial soul with a flushed face and a habit of punctuating his speech with a stabbing thumb that one senses could easily become a fist. Both men, in their divergent styles, bear down hard on their staffs to achieve gloss and precision that have become characteristic or Yorkin and Lear productions...
...LaBute is the genial Mormon, 38, who raises critics' spirits and audiences' hackles with dramatic essays in cruelty. His 1997 movie In the Company of Men had a suavely evil fellow concoct a scheme to seduce and then abandon an innocent deaf woman. "Let's do it," he says to a pal. "Let's hurt somebody." In Your Friends and Neighbors, six yuppies snipe at each other in bed and on every other battlefield. In Bash: Latterday Plays, which appeared off-Broadway and, last year, at the Almeida, nice people confess the most dreadful crimes, in tones so numb they...