Word: gordon
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...Some of that derives from Aniston's performance, a nicely judged blend of intelligence and inexperience, briskness and softness. She is, as she proves every week on Friends, an actress who serenely lets the comedy come to her instead of frantically searching for it. Director and co-writer Glenn Gordon Caron, late of Moonlighting, operates in the same smart, patient manner. You might wish he and his colleagues had toasted Nick, their studmuffin, a little more crisply--enough of these puff-pastry leading men--but the rest of the roles are crunchy, and Picture, if not quite perfect, makes...
...most numerically successful creed born on American soil and one of the fastest growing anywhere. Its U.S. membership of 4.8 million is the seventh largest in the country, while its hefty 4.7% annual American growth rate is nearly doubled abroad, where there are already 4.9 million adherents. Gordon B. Hinckley, the church's President--and its current Prophet--is engaged in massive foreign construction, spending billions to erect 350 church-size meetinghouses a year and adding 15 cathedral-size temples to the existing 50. University of Washington sociologist Rodney Stark projects that in about 83 years, worldwide Mormon membership should...
...comedy come to her instead of frantically searching for it, notes Schickel. And her nicely judged blend of intelligence and inexperience saves the slightly silly premise (woman needs man to play her husband in order to get a raise) of this romantic comedy. "Director and co-writer Glenn Gordon Caron, late of 'Moonlighting,' operates in the same smart, patient manner," says Schickel You might wish he and his colleagues had toasted Nick, their studmuffin, a little more crisply -- enough of these puff-pastry leading men -- but the rest of the roles are crunchy, and 'Picture,' if not quite perfect, makes...
...times, the shorts directors got composers to cavort onscreen. Some look embarrassed--check out Richard Rodgers' stiff delivery and Lorenz Hart's plaid jammies in Makers of Melody--while others are to the camera born. In the 1934 Hollywood Rhythm, tubby lyricist Mack Gordon (Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?) is fast with a quip and light on his feet; doing a Latin dance, he irrepressibly shouts, "I got rumbatism...
...Gordon and Merman, Calloway and Rogers display an effervescence that bubbles through the decades and chases away our premillennial ennui. They embody the spirit of the Hollywood musical at its primitive best: Have fun; give...