Word: pertness
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...geek with brilliant feet, she a pert blond chorine. Yet when Fred took Ginger in his arms and led her across a ballroom floor, he not only defined the film musical but also, deep in the Depression, created a new ideal of "la belle, la perfectly swell romance." Most of their best numbers--Isn't This a Lovely Day and Cheek to Cheek from Top Hat, the all-time sublime Never Gonna Dance from Swing Time--are in this five-film set, along with cogent analysis of the screen's most buoyant...
...script is doggedly faithful to Brown's plot: Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon (Hanks) is paired with pert police detective Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou), and against Silas, the albino hit man from Opus Dei, as they race from Paris and environs to London and environs in the company of crippled scholar Leigh Teabing (Ian McKellen) to discover the meaning and whereabouts of the Holy Grail, a central artifact in Christian mythology. We eventually learn that, unawares, our hero and heroine have attracted the attention of rival gangs of learned loonies, latest in a millennial line of combatants over the central tenet...
...THIS FAR: Pert, practical Southern girl plays pert, practical Southern girl and against her better judgment warbles June Carter Cash's songs in her own quite-adequate voice. And, incidentally, she rescues Johnny Cash from his demons without becoming a harpy or an implausibly redemptive angel. It's hard to think of a more winning or comfortably graceful performance last year...
...that got KATIE HOLMES' little tween heart pumping way back when? As a youngster, "I used to think I was going to marry TOM CRUISE," Holmes told Seventeen magazine last fall. Does Cruise read Seventeen? The action star, 42, is squiring the pert Dawson's Creek actress, 26, around Italy, with reps for both admitting they're "dating." Skeptics note the pair have summer films to promote--Batman Begins for her and War of the Worlds for him--making this a nice time to toss the paparazzi some A-list meat. Indeed, Cruise's exes--Oscar winner Nicole Kidman...
...homemade, flower print or flour sack, an apron does double duty as protection and decoration. An old apron's faded pattern seems a memory of itself. Its soft, well-washed fabric feels as soothing as soup. But an apron also represents a woman kept in her place. The pert hostess aprons of the 1950s, with their printed poodles and cheery appliques, might seem these days to have tried too hard to put a good face on things. There are some Americans who would just as soon slip a burqa over their daughter's head, and others for whom an apron...