Word: quirkier
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...make customers feel as though they are in a private home, somewhere unique, even if they are actually at the mall. Ruehl No. 925 is aimed at women and men ages 22 to 30 and includes casual sportswear, jeans, accessories, intimate apparel and outerwear. Then there are quirkier products, such as a fragrance that comes in a bottle shaped like an ink flask and limited-edition art T shirts that are signed by a different artist every month...
...Kaneshiro. Still, he endured voice and dance lessons and released Mando-pop albums with titles such as Tenderhearted Superman. When the time came to parlay his local celebrity into a film career (routine for Taiwan's idol factory), he perversely shunned roles in safe, saccharine vehicles, insisting instead on quirkier character parts. He won acclaim in his second movie for his role as a lovelorn cop in Wong Kar-wai's 1994 cult hit, Chungking Express...
Opening this weekend is director Jonathan Demme’s The Truth About Charlie, a remake of Stanley Donen’s 1963 classic romantic thriller Charade. Starring Thandie Newton, Mark Wahlberg and Tim Robbins, the film marks Demme’s return to his quirkier, Something Wild days, without completely forsaking the dramatic cache of his better-known and more critically-acclaimed films (The Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia...
...many of the archives' quirkier possessions, like a full set of Wedgworth china patterned with the Radcliffe shield, are buried in the depths of the library and are only seen by the occasional ambitious researcher...
...energizing spirit of wit and passion that makes scenes work and characters breathe. The script, by Lee Batchler, Janet Scott Batchler and Akiva Goldsman, settles for the stale pose of antiheroic dialogue and TV sitcom irony. Barbara Ling's sumptuous production design is mainly a reminder of better, quirkier films (Blade Runner, The Hudsucker Proxy). The special-effects aces have created a big destruct-o-fest, with explosions all over Gotham, yet the film is pizazz deficient. A series of set pieces with no forward momentum, Batman Forever drags laboriously, as if the Batmobile were being towed away with...