Word: smile
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...similarly-obsessed Richard Dreyfuss in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. She should have better taste in husbands, poor girl. Such an unthreatening, inoffensive cast must also have assured Reiner that although the idea of God presented as a stand-up comic would be offensive to some, most would smile anyway and have a good time...
...made in a single film. They grow out of a lot movies and eventually turn them all into mere incidents in the larger and more absorbing drama of the star career. Consider Eastwood's moralistic killer, whose cold eyes are set off by his incongruously boyish voice and smile, or Reynolds' good-ole-boy con man, shooting from the lip as fast as Eastwood shoots from the hip. The comparison is not with their contemporary peers but with the major figures of the great age of screen heroism, to Coop and Gable, Bogie and Duke, those exemplars of the democratic...
...arms, so to speak. For now I felt I had stepped into a vaster and more beautiful world and my capacity for endurance redoubled. I felt I could stand the pressure whatever the magnitude of a given problem. My paramount object was to make people happy. To see a smile, to feel that another man's heart beat for joy was to me a source of immeasurable happiness. I identified with people's joys...
...scene from Some Like It Hot? The Seven Year Itch? Actually, that familiar sultry smile belongs to Linda Kerridge, 23, an Australian-born model whose role in an upcoming movie called Star$ shows she can give a pretty convincing imitation of Marilyn Monroe. In the film, Kerridge works in a Hollywood pleasure house where the women look like famous movie stars. Off-camera, Kerridge has little in common with M.M. "Marilyn was wonderful, but very lonely, without family, without roots," says Kerridge. "I will not have the same problem...
...Calvary Church downstate in Costa Mesa, Calif. A liberal writer in Christian Century snaps that the church "churns out ignorance and hysteria," but in the pulpit Smith is actually a balding Everyman, leading hymns with only modest gestures and offering unvarnished Bible lectures accompanied by a disarmingly broad smile. "People come here because God is explained to them in a way they can understand," says Smith. They can also understand Christianity in action. Calvary sponsors homes for separated wives and for children having trouble with parents, counseling for parents and vocational training. Smith points to an 85% recovery rate...