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...appealing mix of sensuality and wacky spontaneity. Says Paul Mazursky, who directed her in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice: "She has this strange sexuality, which has the slightest edge of being funky, and this humor." She is the exact opposite of a gently provocative Diane Keaton, much more like a latter-day Judy Holliday (but brassier). Cannon downright dares to be vulgar. Says Buck Henry, co-director (with Beatty) of Heaven Can Wait: "She's successful because she's not afraid to make a fool of herself...
Humans come off less well: with the exception of Anthony Hopkins as an Olympic team trainer, all the performances are flat. It's particularly sad that Elizabeth Taylor was unavailable to resume the role of Velvet. Even at her latter-day worst, she's a far more compelling presence than Nanette Newman. Better still, she might have given Tatum more than a few pointers about how to grow up gracefully on the big screen...
...veterans of 20 corporate moves between us, we are disturbed by your article, which suggests that younger managers will not relocate in order to gain promotions. Those of us who have adapted ourselves and our families to this mobile life-style consider ourselves to be latter-day pioneers...
...says. "They both communicate ideas and both involve persuasion and compromise." More than ever, though, Beatty loves acting; he looks forward to playing many more roles after John Reed and Howard Hughes. This is good news, for Beatty has evolved into an exceptional movie star. Once a moody, latter-day James Dean, he is now the wittiest of leading men. He brings eroticism to the screen, but not at the expense of sensitivity and self-effacing charm. At his best?especially in McCabe and Heaven Can Wait?his acting belies his looks; he makes the audience feel protective...
There are fewer than 1,000 blacks among the world's 4 million Latter-day Saints. Among other privileges, these few black Mormons will now be able to hold church office and undergo such temple rites as "sealing" their marriages for eternity and vicariously baptizing their deceased relatives...