Word: sheen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nearly three years, is told through the eyes of three sympathetic characters. One is a fictional police detective (Morgan Freeman), who narrates the movie and voices skepticism of the investigation at virtually every turn. The others are real-life figures: a former Atlanta police administrator named Chet Dettlinger (Martin Sheen), who investigated the murders on his own and doubts that Williams is the killer; and Camille Bell (Gloria Foster), an outspoken mother of one of the slain children. Both are pictured as righteous crusaders for justice; both were paid consultants on the movie. Williams, played with riveting accuracy by Calvin...
Consenting Adult, based on Laura Z. Hobson's 1975 novel, is considerably less extreme. The parents are hardly enlightened about their son's homosexuality, but at least they are restrained. The boy's father (Martin Sheen) is crushed and humiliated at the news, and retreats into silence. His mother (Marlo Thomas), though more tolerant, gropes for explanations. "What did we do? What didn't we do?" she cries. The message of this quietly affecting TV movie is that there is no "blame" to be affixed. It is a valuable lesson, one that future TV families in crisis should heed...
...orst voices in film, executes her rate efficiently. She has an enormous amount of resilient charm but no comic timing, or comic presence of any sort. In all of her scenes with Moore she exudes a dry earnestness that seems quite lawyerly, but that dulls Moore's comic sheen. Thankfully the peculiarly pulchritudinous Irving can effectively play the foil to Moore's neurotic mannerisms. She possesses a wry vulnerability that suggests she's a lot of fun but a danger to play with. As for Moore, he looks shorter, funnier, and sillier than in any of his films since Arthur...
Indeed you do not. It is a please-and-thank-you kind of town, with a sheen of sophistication the rest of Texas begrudgingly still aspires to. Elsewhere, Texans have been known to agree to meet at "dark-30" or "half-past dawn." Dallas people meet according to the clock. Elsewhere in Texas, the beautiful are "pretty as a speckled pup under a red wagon," and the plain are "ugly as homemade sin." Dallas prefers straightforward adjectives: gorgeous, beautiful, attractive, interesting looking...
...sparingly, and never with the self-indulgence common to word-drunk young novelists - the images thicken to a rich impressionism. Danner, at seven, falling asleep and hearing the half-understood noises of her parents' lovemaking, fantasizes about horses that "are dark like blood and gleam with a black sheen; the animals swim hard in the air to get higher, and Danner aches to stay with them ... In the dream it is the horse pressed against her, the rhythmic pumping of the forelegs as the animal climbs, the lather and the smell; the smell that comes in waves and pounds...