Word: geniality
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...side streets, to the movie equivalent of off-Broadway, to fashion his next career: as the formidable director of stage plays on film and videotape (10 of them, from 1982 to 1988). In 1992 he stormed back from exile with The Player, writer Michael Tolkin's vivid, genial satire of the movie industry's knack for corrupting American optimism and ingenuity - by which time a system of indie distributors was in place to bankroll Altman's more ambitious projects and return him to the mainstream of American movies' minor stream...
...Cremaldi’s customer base, won over, no doubt, by the smiley staff and best damn pie around. Petsi pie is the only pie around, as far as I am concerned. I went first on a Thursday afternoon and found it suffused with the genial hum of satisfied customers. Think the coziness of Darwin’s with a bit of the mismatched, worn-in charm of Charlie’s Kitchen, but without the seating problems of either. People came and went at a pretty steady pace the whole time my friend and I were there...
...Genial and just corny enough on camera, Barker is beloved, other than by pets hoping to leave a genetic legacy. For my money, The Price Is Right is the best game show in history. For 35 years it has made entertainment out of the survival skills of middle-class life--budgeting, saving, deciding what's a fair price for a dinette set. Its winners are not held up as better or smarter than the home audience, just luckier. By me, that's as commendable as controlling the cat population...
...that meticulous drudgery pays off in a sparkling finished product. Park and Peter Lord and the hundreds of other genial obsessives over in Bristol have crafted some of the loveliest comic films since Chaplin's. Creature Comforts, Park's day at the zoo with talking animals, and his short films with Wallace the cheese-loving suburban inventor and Gromit his mutely heroic dog, can match any animated films of the past 20 years. But the process cannot be delightful. Most American animators would say it's daft, all that precision-toying with clay, when, these days, computers...
...Spector and other showbiz Jews hadn't been converted to Christianity, like Saul on the road to Tarsus. Their year-end tributes simply recognized that Christmas had already made its transition from holy day to holiday. It had become fully secularized, into a time of genial sentiment and credit-card debt - none of which had any direct connection to the birth of somebody's Savior...