Word: smilingly
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...Coach couldn’t really score on me,” Tobe explained with a smile. “So I think he tried to take me down out of the net and drilled me in the head with a slapper...
...including the mild-mannered, happily married and legally faithful; and it isn't an act of male predation. Just the reverse: it's fealty, an acknowledgment that women have a power over men, which can be ignited at the turn of an ankle or the vaguest smile, or just by walking down Fifth Avenue. Don't pretty women know this? Don't they get a little bit of pleasure stopping pedestrian traffic? Are they not creating their own scenarios of conversation and conquest...
...Nichols and his cast bring to the piece is the eloquence of gesture. Each of the actors has telling little moments: Portman's busyness with a stranger's glasses; the slouch of Law's shoulders when his ego takes the impact of another sandbag; the tightening of Owen's smile to signal he's morphing from victim to predator; the sting Roberts reveals behind her eyes when she's chastised. (Nichols flatteringly calls Roberts "the CNN of actresses: on the closeup you actually see a crawl, noun-by-noun, adjective-by-adjective, of what she's thinking.") They keep every...
...them to fall in love with it, even as it sets them at a distance from the scurvier action of the characters. Are they beneath you? No: they're you, man. (And woman.) As we watch, the screen turns from a window to a mirror. We see ourselves, and smile, and squirm. So if you're shopping for a cunning comedy that you can fall in love with (without necessarily loving the people in it), "Closer" is the buy of the holiday season...
...That’s always nice,” he added with a smile, “especially since it was a bad goal on my part...