Word: geniality
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Alan Ayckbourn's book builds, with deft comic logic, from a tangle of mistaken identities to the climactic remark, "There's a cat-burgling pig in my bedroom!" Lloyd Webber's tunes are inventive and sweetly chipper. The effect is of two precocious lads putting on a genial public-school charade. By Jeeves may not be lighter than air, but it's surely lighter than Guerre...
...Mike Leigh, Gong Li and Jennifer Jason Leigh were all on the Riviera to peddle their films at dozens of press conferences and at luncheon interviews. Gong Li fared better at a posh dinner for her film Temptress Moon; her tablemate was not some grubby journalist but the genial dauphin of nearby Monaco. It was the first time in nine years that Grace Kelly's son had visited the festival, lured by Temptress Moon's elegant producer Hsu Feng, who thus provided a new answer to the old question: How do you get Prince Albert into Cannes...
Here they are, in 12 choice cuts of The Road to Ensenada (MCA). Listen for the testimony and you may be persuaded that the whole marriage was fieldwork, research under fire for an album of wily recrimination. In the acerbic Christmas Morning the singer describes three genial lies--"Have a great day," "Peace and goodwill to men" and a bride's vow to take her man for better or worse--and plaintively asks, "But hey, what did you mean by that?/ Perhaps I'm the tool you take me for,/ Not anything more." In the faux-perky, hit-bound...
...drag queen and his slightly more butch companion. Lane is wildly endearing: a tempestuous wife, a doting mother and every inch the great lady. The film gets less comic mileage, but more political kick, from the right-wing politician (Hackman) who is the butt of the film's genial jokes. He might be Pat Robertson or Pat Buchanan on a bad day. In the mistaken-identity dinner party that serves as the film's third act, it is his function to be enlightened--not to forgive the gay couple for any crime against nature but to realize that charm...
Alexander's pristine image speaks to his skill in attacking his opponents for their attacks on their opponents. With his genial, schoolteachery manner he can deliver threats in an unthreatening way. He can imply that Bob Dole is too old and it doesn't sound mean, that Bill Clinton is a liar and it doesn't sound disrespectful. When he arrived Tuesday night in Laconia, the hall was packed and sprinkled with plaid; the crowd was ready to shop for something new. Without so much as a stumble, Alexander delivered the smoothest speech since Clinton's State of the Union...