Word: sassiest
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...stage next to Jerry Lee Lewis (Waylon Payne). Cash’s home life may not have been perfect, but Phoenix takes every blow as though he were born to the role. As June Carter, Witherspoon draws on her Tennessee roots to come up with the strongest, sassiest portrait of a Southern girl since Scarlett O’Hara. Witherspoon has been a bit remiss in her movie choices as of late (“Just Like Heaven”), but, in this film, she returns to the acting promise seen in 1999’s “Election...
...hosted a retrospective of his films. Richard Schickel attended the event and wrote a long Meyer appreciation for Life, then a weekly picture magazine. In France, critic Jean-Pierre Jackson reviewed "Common Law Cabin" and reverently called it "the most implausible film ever made." The Village Voice put its sassiest junior movie critic (me) on the Meyer beat, opening the sluice gate to torrents of mannered enthusiasm. I'd followed Meyer since around 1960, when I saw "Teas" at an "art" theater in Philadelphia, but I didn't strap him on till the color comedies. Later I was vagrantly known...
...Kwak's youthful sensibility mirrors the minds of his young characters, and the film is ambitious, hysterical and, by turns, exhilarating. Optimistic in tone and yet tragic at the end, Girl is a rewarding challenge?and further proof that Korean flicks are the sassiest girls on Asian cinema's block...
...Under pressure from propaganda officials, Guangzhou-based Southern Weekend this month sacked three editors and effectively downgraded itself from the sassiest read in China to a rag as bland as the People's Daily. It's the latest casualty in the Communist Party's battle against the nation's increasingly independent-minded media, a clash that's linked to an internal power struggle over who will assume top party positions in a reshuffle expected next year. More immediately, the party will be celebrating its 80th anniversary on July 1 and wants to ensure that it gets good press...