Word: goodheartedness
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There was also the voice, suddenly made famous on radio, that inspired Hollywood to cast Crosby in the feature picture (Paramount's The Big Broadcast) that was to launch the flip side of Bing's career. In the movies as onstage, Crosby seemed always to come on singing...
Is there anything wrong with such goodhearted greed, openly pursued? Some argue in Billy's favor that he never sought his celebrity (not quite true), but is now obeying Adam Smith's "invisible hand" by selling the public what it wants for as long as it will pay...
Moms, in short, is a broad and earthy clown. The script of Amazing Grace, however, calls on her mostly to be goodhearted and forward-looking and does not allow her enough wry humor. "That woman would make coffee nervous," she mutters at one point, one of the best lines in...
The denizens of Tuppenny-hapenny Cottage for a while seem to be little more than the kind of dotty ménage à cinq that Wodehouse might assemble on a bilious day: Adela Bastable, a large, dim, goodhearted spinster; her brother Bernard, a retired brigadier with a bad leg; Shorty...
Raymond Chandler's detective Philip Marlowe once complained that Los Angeles had become "a big hard-boiled city with no more personality than a paper cup." During Marlowe's investigations-adventures that were moral tournaments, really-he had watched the city change. "Los Angeles was just a big...