Word: warmheartedness
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One can't think of Brazil without feeling certain rhythms. In the early 20th century, the country gave the world warmhearted samba and such performers as Carmen Miranda and Ary Barroso; in the 1950s and '60s it was soft-swaying bossa nova and Antonio Carlos (Tom) Jobim, Joao and Astrud...
The dual narrative strands, beautifully woven by director Daisy Prince, add a layer of irony and melancholy to what otherwise might have seemed a pretty routine story. Jamie (Norbert Leo Butz) is a Jewish writer on the rise; Kathleen (Lauren Kennedy) is an Irish-Catholic actress whose career never takes...
He stopped drinking after a near-fatal car accident in 1972, and after that he had a difficult time getting work, so when I was producing All the President's Men in 1975, I insisted on casting Jason. It was a way for me to return his generosity, and it...
Oh, all right. Kron's a fascist. And he pretty nearly gets everybody killed in the search for water and a green nesting place before Aladar prevails with his liberal-minded humanity. Wait a minute. Did we just say humanity? This creature is, in fact, pea-brained and prehistoric. And...
He was 39, at the height of his powers, when he was stricken with polio and became a paraplegic. He had been an athlete, a man who had loved to swim and sail, to play tennis and golf, to run in the woods and ride horseback in the fields. Determined...