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Dates: during 2000-2009
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You didn't have to be a talent scout to recognize that Kerr was the perfect package of a quality actress. Her large blue eyes could glare in disapproval or moisten dewily in the surrender to love. Her mouth expressed primness or sensuality, as needed; and in many films it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Her to Eternity | 10/19/2007 | See Source »

The first film in which she appeared was the 1941 Major Barbara; she played a winsome Salvation Army lass under the tutelage of Hiller, the fresh-faced rage of the day. Kerr's radiance was both more demure and more alluring; and when pregnancy forced Hiller to drop out of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Her to Eternity | 10/19/2007 | See Source »

And often it's the men who'd be reformed. Playboy Cary Grant, in the 1957 An Affair to Remember, meets chanteuse Kerr on a long cruise and, at nearly the first stop, takes her ashore to meet his aged mother. By the end of the voyage they've agreed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Her to Eternity | 10/19/2007 | See Source »

Here's a surefire idea: a reteaming of Ben Stiller, Hollywood's biggest international comedy star, with Peter and Bobby Farrelly, writer-directors of cheerfully gross comedies. You probably loved There's Something About Mary, where Stiller fell in love with giggly blond Cameron Diaz and won her by fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ben Stiller Loses Heart | 10/5/2007 | See Source »

Two other differences: Lenny admits from the start that he's on his honeymoon, and Kelly entertains his advances but doesn't encourage them. He jettisons Lila without a sensible hope of corralling romantic longing and ruthless ambition, then spends the rest of the movie trying to persuade Kelly and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ben Stiller Loses Heart | 10/5/2007 | See Source »

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