Word: smitten
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...promotion--until her "fiance" unexpectedly gains local celebrity for saving a child's life, such that Kate's boss wants to see him at the next meeting with the colleagues. Kate succeeds in contacting the man in the picture, Nick, and persuades him to pose as her betrothed. Smitten Nick's a little too happy to oblige, especially since Kate had planned an official "breakup" during the dinner to finish her plan...
...woman of BARBRA STREISAND's studied elegance would have to be mightily smitten to allow anyone to call her "Beezer." Indeed, she is, for La Streisand is marrying the man who dreamed up that unlikely nickname. Actor JAMES BROLIN, 56, announced last week that after several proposals and multiple attempts to find a ring that suited the songstress (now that's our Barbra), she finally said yes. "I definitely believe that if there is a soul connection, it is there right away," Streisand, 55, has said of her nine-month relationship with Brolin. "It's so rare." Moral: People...
Burt-Kinderman has a harder job. McNally gives Johnny the snappiest lines and the sweetest ones, leaving Frankie to fill all the emotional space between. Also, because Johnny is smitten from Scene One, the will-they-or-won't-they momentum of the piece rests entirely on her changes of mood. In other words, whoever plays Frankie has to keep the play moving and slow everything down...
...kick it might once have been--and the fact that he still pines for his high school sweetheart, whom he stood up without explanation on their long-ago prom night. Since she is played by the divine Minnie Driver--now working as a disk jockey but still smitten, it turns out, and still warily available--his feelings are understandable...
...energy, projecting an exuberance that was ultimately irresistible. It also had a big plus in its leading man: Tim Arnold was perfect as the matador whose puffed-up complacency gives way to an amiable cluelessness with the onset of his amnesia. He even succeeded in making El Bean's smitten shyness around Ana engagingly dopey without degenerating into complete farce...