Word: graceless
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...Visitors to Beijing will notice that the Chinese capital seems to have gone through just this of late, with formerly trendy Sanlitun giving way to the lakeside neighborhood of Houhai as the city's favored leisure zone. While Sanlitun degenerates into a graceless quarter of leather-jacketed touts and identical bars, Houhai is luring yuppie dollars with rather more modish venues...
Another fault that emerges by the middle of the film is that there is no reason to care about the characters. They haven’t done anything to win the audience over. The graceless exposition is a series of short takes, just long enough to reveal relevant facts about Bridges’ family issues, Spacey’s good heart and the various personalities of the patients in quick succession. Rarely do the characters interact meaningfully, and they don’t seem to have much at stake as they follow the premise of the movie to its conclusion...
...appeal to the whole range of people who live in Britain," Portillo says, a commitment to tolerance that may also remind party members of his admission of a homosexual past. Last week one top Tory said that should disqualify Portillo from the head job. Another leadership hopeful, the delightfully graceless Ann Widdecombe, declared she would never serve under Portillo and his "little band of backbiters...
...Batting for the gays, Jason Bateman is adequate as a poor man's Eric McCormack, but Danny Nucci plays a straight Italian stereotype who's like Joey from Friends' dumber brother. Add predictable storylines (I think my roomie has a crush on me!), and you've got Will & Graceless...
...many more generations of legal and electoral wrangling he wants to endorse, will be hearing from high-end Democrats how he'll get blamed for dragging this thing out. And how he'd be much better off running in 2004 as a martyr than winning in 2000 as a graceless hair-splitter...