Word: slickly
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Meanwhile, in Delhi, the rains and the relatives are arriving for a wedding the father can't afford, his daughter is dubious about (she has been having an affair with a slick TV host) and many of the guests and servants are distracted from as they pursue their own romantic interests. Though director Mira Nair and writer Sabrina Dhawan manage to pull a persuasively perverse thread through their canvas, their main line of business is frenzy. Anyone who has ever staged a big wedding on a tight budget will adore the many ways they work their central joke...
...Curtis rubs his thumbs against his forefingers like a cartoon usurer and glances imploringly to heaven. Sidney: such a thespian he is. For Curtis, the performance may not have been career-making, but it was actor-making. It expanded and forever defined what we mean by "Tony Curtis": the slick shtarker, oily and irresistible...
...secretary. (The boy is all ego, not libido; he's too busy screwing his clients to waste time screwing a secretary.) Also gone are the interior monologues, and good riddance; Sidney has no soul to confide to us. But he has a handsome line of patter - a slick pitch (most likely a spitter) for shoddy merchandise. He stops you on the street, talks fast, and suddenly you're wearing a fake Rolex. You've been had, in the grimy mid-Manhattan theme park called Sidneyland...
That's because Omaha is earning a rep as a hot spot for cutting-edge rock. One reason for that is the Faint, a band whose latest album, Danse Macabre, sounds like a cocktail of such slick Reagan-era synthesizer bands as New Order and the Cure, with a shot of alternative-rock grit tossed in. Singer and keyboardist Todd Baechle, 28; his brother Clark, 21, on drums; keyboardist Jacob Thiele, 22; guitarist Dapose (just Dapose), 22; and bassist Joel Petersen, 27, plan to embark this week on an arena and theater tour with the hugely popular No Doubt...
...resulting understated documentary plays more like an independent film than a slick network news special. Says co-producer Susan Zirinsky, executive producer of CBS's 48 Hours: "Everything about it has to be respectful and can't call attention to itself." There are no commercials, thanks to sponsor Nextel. Robert De Niro, a longtime resident of the Tribeca neighborhood near the WTC, provides a brief introduction and closing remarks. The Naudets got the blessings of the fire company--fire fighter James Hanlon co-produced and narrates--and they offered advance tapes to the families of fire fighters who were killed...