Word: sullens
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...answered, as Andie MacDowell miserably fails to carry off the part of the havoc-wreaking femme fatale. MacDowell seems to have evolved little since her days as a L'Oreal-model-turned-actress. While she is as stunning as ever, she remains trapped in the mold of a silent, sullen object of beauty. Her sophisticated sadness worked well in movies where she was only meant to portray a beautiful object, ("The Legend of Greystoke," "St. Elmo's Fire," The Object of Beauty"). In "Sex, Lies, and Videotape" she won acclaim for her portrayal of an emotionally repressed Southern housewife...
...Orlando pining for her love. Befriending him under her false indentity, she forces Orlando to court her as if she were Rosalind. The pair play this twisted charade as an agonizing process, reducing both of them to emotional ground beef. Here they are both in their element: red-eyed, sullen, resentful and argumentative in the throes of life's most beautiful emotion, love...
...Nolte, who displays all the intensity that somebody who wants to think of himself as a nice guy dares to show, and Richardson, whose gorgeous, frazzled perkiness suggests a cheerleader on the verge of a nervous breakdown. The great turn, through, is from Wright, who plays a tough, often sullen kid -- precariously poised between acting and acting up. On location, setting up a shot where the five- year-old wore a coat, Brooks told her, "This is a magic coat, Whittni. There's great acting in it." And he was right...
...comic stars of this production are inadvertantly so. Monica Ferrell as Mina and Chris Cocks as her fiance John are so excrutiatingly bad, they are wonderful. Granted, it would be hard to overcome the handicap of their particular roles, bland characters who speak tritely at best. Yet John's sullen sneer is so completely out of place, and Mina's cooing sweetness rings false. Ferrell. only comes to life when she sheds the veneer of pure innocent for that of vampire seductress...
ORNERY IS A GOOD TEXAS WORD. IT'S probably the word Tommy Lee Jones' teachers were searching for when, on a report card at his Dallas prep school, they described him as "sullen, morose and belligerent." But ornery is just a corruption of ordinary. And this eighth-generation Texan has never been ordinary. Not at Harvard, where he roomed with Al Gore, played on the football team and graduated cum laude. Not in his two-decade career as a charismatic character actor. Not in his parallel career as a Texas cattle rancher, or in his passion for polo. And surely...