Word: smarming
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...Arnold), prepared to enforce a return to the Latin Mass, at gunpoint if necessary; a dubious record promoter (Paul Mazursky), worried that Juvenal won?t tour like the Pope does; a star biographer (Janeane Garofalo), looking for the inside gossip; and, of course, the TV host (Gina Gershon), half smarm, half snarl. "Striving for drollness, Schrader sometimes achieves a distancing effect instead," says TIME's Richard Schickel. "Neither the comedy nor the melodrama is quite as compelling as it might be. But 'Touch' was never meant to be 'Get Shorty.' It is rather a wintry meditation on the difficulties...
...Arnold), prepared to enforce a return to the Latin Mass, at gunpoint if necessary; a dubious record promoter (Paul Mazursky), worried that Juvenal won?t tour like the Pope does; a star biographer (Janeane Garofalo), looking for the inside gossip; and, of course, the TV host (Gina Gershon), half smarm, half snarl. "Striving for drollness, Schrader sometimes achieves a distancing effect instead," says TIME's Richard Schickel. "Neither the comedy nor the melodrama is quite as compelling as it might be. But 'Touch' was never meant to be 'Get Shorty.' It is rather a wintry meditation on the difficulties...
...Gibson, directing for the first time, presents this deeply wet material in a reasonably cool and dry manner. But his film is in desperate need of smarm busting -- something, anything that would relieve the familiarity of its characters, the predictability of its structure, the bland failure to challenge its perfect correctness of outlook...
...Conan is charm, Chevy is smarm. At least that is his TV and film persona: the preening, been-there, done-that blase buffoon. But Chase insists he won't mock his guests: "The point is to help them relax, don't bully them. I want to have normal people too. One of the ugliest sides of TV is its continual daytime flushing of the underbellies of society in the guise of exposing the real America. Well, I think there are plenty of Americans who are very interesting and aren't screwed up. I don't know who they...
...teenager who in fact is a talented artist with real substance. We rarely find this risky combination of adolescent coquetry and artistic depth, but Salie succeeds in merging the two. Victor is sweet, but has a quick tongue; Lucano plays the role of the older man with charm, not smarm...