Word: geniality
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Hanks' Andy is a wonderful fellow: chipper, supremely competent, lavishing genial respect on colleagues high and low. He also seems a good subject for a sensibly daring film about AIDS. And for its first hour, Philadelphia is a pretty fine social comedy about private pain; it lays out the dilemma with a grace almost worthy of Hanks' bravely understated playing. But then it becomes % much too timid. It says that the death threat hanging over gays commands our sympathy for them. It renounces character shadings for easy good guys (Andy's huge family, each one of them amazingly accepting...
...together, but I doubt his job was ever out to bid. A replacement who worked just as hard for less might seem cost-effective, but actually cost the paper more in lost time because he or she lacked Pat's skills, knowledge, familiarity with The Crimson, and famous genial personality (not to mention fragrant stogies...
...settles into an easy chair in his offices on the 20th Century Fox film lot, a genial Rupert Murdoch has plenty on his mind. Not only has he unveiled a dazzling array of media deals in recent weeks, but his daughter Elisabeth is to be married the following day. "It's the main item of business these days around my house," he says...
...genial, bobble-head doll; he is a demanding actor immersed in his craft. "He'll put a spin on each take," says Oliver Stone, who cast Jones in JFK and in the forthcoming Heaven and Earth and Natural Born Killers. "He can deliver different pitches: slow balls, fastballs, curves, sliders." Stone says Jones is "not a party animal. He's reticent, taciturn." A crew member on The Client notes that Jones "won't talk much about personal things. But he talked to a friend of mine for an hour about Texas horny toads...
...This Morning co-anchor Paula Zahn interviewed a "reporter" for the sleaze show Hard Copy. In Britain the rumor rags were resplendent: sicko jacko, cried Thursday's Daily Star ("The Newspaper That Cares"); wacko jacko screamed the Sun. In the U.S. the baiting was a bit more genial. "Suddenly," Howard Stern told his nationwide radio audience, "Pee-wee Herman is an upright citizen." And Jay Leno on the Tonight Show noted, "Someone said when you hear the name Michael Jackson it epitomizes all that's kind and good. So did the name Heidi until a month...