Word: tomboyish
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...TIME wrote that she possessed a curious "bellicose zeal and tomboyish winsomeness." Offscreen, blond bombshell Betty Hutton struggled with an addiction to pills and four failed marriages. Onscreen she lent a brash, explosive energy to such films of the '40s and '50s as Annie Get Your Gun and The Miracle of Morgan's Creek. After walking away from Paramount--and her film career--in a 1952 dispute, Hutton acknowledged she could be, well, temperamental. "When I'm working with jerks with no talent, I raise hell until I get what I want," she said...
...Kelly Reilly), the English militia arrives in town, and the Bennetts’ painfully awkward minister cousin Mr. Collins (Tom Hollander) comes a-calling, the crop of potential husbands imbues the five young women’s lives with excitement. Knightley spiritedly plays, with a mixture of poise and tomboyish charm, the quintessential Austen heroine who, while refusing to submit to social pressures, finds she is inexplicably falling in love. Whether she is trudging through the English countryside and carelessly soiling her petticoats, or defiantly contesting Mr. Darcy with her perfect chin held high, Knightley exudes the feisty independence...
...tomboyish aspiring writer, Sutton Foster is a total delight, with gangly limbs always on the move, the comic timing of a vaudeville vet and a voice that can shake the balcony. She burst onto Broadway two seasons ago as the star of Thoroughly Modern Millie; she's even better here, a great singing comedian in the Carol Burnett mold. Maureen McGovern is a little stodgy as the mother, but the whole ensemble--including the men--meshes perfectly. If only the score by Jason Howland had a few decent tunes, Little Women might have been a real banquet. --By Richard Zoglin
Lynndie England joined the unit at age 17, having insisted to her parents that she finance her own college education. Independent and tomboyish, England had enough of a wild streak to enjoy standing outside during thunderstorms and even a twister. She dreamed of becoming a storm-chasing meteorologist, says her family. At 19, she surprised many by impulsively marrying a friend. Says Shoemaker-Davis: "When she was was on leave from Bosnia, she ran up to me laughing in the parking lot of the 7-Eleven and said, 'Look what I did!' and showed me her ring." The marriage...
...wasn't all that hot. I mean, sure, she looked like a model, but when she showed up for the cover shoot, she was weirdly skinny in her baggy pants and a little tomboyish, so I didn't have that depressing sense of knowing here was something otherworldly I'd never have. Gisele Bundchen, God bless her, even had the remnants of a zit she had popped that morning. "I love squeezing them. I have these big mirrors in my house so even if I don't have one, I look for one to squeeze," she says, her eyes widening...