Word: mensch
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...goon with a grudge, a hyperactive child on steroids. The summer blockbusters show how he can die hard or douse a forest fire or terminate the bad guys. But he still needs educating, humanizing. Why, with a woman's touch, a man can be a mensch -- warm, winsome, wonderful, wuvable and all those other sweet w adjectives. Also, in Hollywood's late-summer films, way too wimpy...
Still, Jackson concludes that perhaps Germans "are not meant to be a happy people. I want to tell my German friends, 'Lighten up, Mensch, count your blessings.' " But as he reports in this week's story, their feelings are complex, and the shape of the new republic will be evolving for years to come...
...girlfriend (Meg Ryan). If Tuck has anything to do with it, Jack will find all the resources he needs right inside him. And his arrogant little friend, who is fond of gazing in the mirror and saying, "The Tuck Pendelton machine -- zero defects," may learn how to be a mensch...
...past," she says, "Brian hasn't chosen the material that was worthy of him and that he was worthy of. He was making homages to Alfred Hitchcock. This one is a homage to Brian De Palma -- he felt it instead of directing it. With this picture he became a mensch." It surely marked a ! change from the snazzy, derivative thrillers (Carrie, Body Double) and dope operas (Scarface) that made him notorious. The new picture would be neither parody nor eulogy; it would be the story of a straight arrow, told with a straight face...
...first movies too he made mock of his Waspy features by playing dimwits and cuckolds. Would he restrict himself to updating Jerry Lewis when he could be Cary Grant? Not at all. For with Pennies from Heaven Martin essayed nostalgic surrealism; in The Lonely Guy he was a mensch for all seasons; All of Me provided him a tour de force of physical comedy; his turn in Little Shop of Horrors boasted a wondrously manic concentration of energy. By now he was becoming the snazziest farceur, and maybe the most appealing movie comic, of the '80s. Now he had only...