Word: guileless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were charmed by Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes but wished at times that the author would have got out of the way of his own beguiling style, try All Souls: A Family Story from Southie (Beacon Press; 288 pages; $24), Michael Patrick MacDonald's guileless and powerful memoir of precarious life and early death in Boston's Irish ghetto...
Eddie Murphy--bald, blissful and guileless--is top-billed in this clever, derivative comedy (think The Truman Show with lower ratings) about a wandering shaman who stumbles into fame on a home shopping network. But the real star is Jeff Goldblum as the network's frazzled manager. With his lupine smile and fake-intimate voice, he pushes a line of patter that is just a bit too slick to pass for charm. And when his life starts crumbling, you can almost smell his comic flop sweat through the screen. Tom Schulman's script is smart about the media's ability...
Manson is another one of Garbage's central charms. She has a warm, sensuous voice and a charismatic personality that comes through in her songs: angry but needy, wounded but enduring, a little jaded but somehow guileless. She's clearly a rock star in the making...
...Lolita is not a movie we need to be protected from. If it offers a certain sympathetic understanding of Jeremy Irons' gently wistful Humbert Humbert, he is more than adequately punished for his nymphetomania. If Lolita, in Dominique Swain's marvelous performance--a mercurial blend of the guileful and guileless--is as much victimizer as victim, well, such creatures are not unknown in life...
...never get his act together: he flirts with everyone and commits himself to no one; he's had more professions than most people have hot breakfasts, and claims to be an expert on everything when he actually knows little of anything. But Lindseth depicts a Gerry whose guileless, good-for-nothing layabout image conceals a calculating cold-heartedness...