Word: unctuous
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There are some particularly good examples of animation in the film--such as the evil Scar, who slinks around the kingdom. In fact, Scar is such an interesting character that it's a testament to the moviemakers that he doesn't eclipse the honorable Mufasa. He fairly radiates unctuous evil wherever he goes, although Simba never seems to notice...
...Short ... unassuming ... attentive ... a bit unctuous...
...shopping segment of the morning ends when Zlata's publicist announces that it is time to head for a taping of Charlie Rose's pbs talk show. Here again, Zlata holds her own, even when the usually unctuous host prods his child guest to defend herself against a New York Times review excoriating her book. Even when Rose asks Zlata, who is still struggling with English, if writing the diary was a "catharsis" for her. Returning to the green room, Zlata is delighted when Rose's next guest, novelist Paul Theroux, tells her she guessed the meaning of the term...
Nicely directed by video whiz Steve Barron (Billie Jean, Take on Me), the movie is a kind of SNL family reunion. More than a dozen veterans of the show play supporting roles; best is David Spade as a masterfully unctuous bureaucrat. But Coneheads is not Saturday Night satire. It is an updated Saturday Evening Post cover; it sees suburbia as a goofy Utopia. In E.T. and Edward Scissorhands (this movie's most obvious parental units), the alien beings stood in metaphorically for blacks and other minorities and had to flee home from benighted prejudice. Here, though, law-abiding citizens...
...parallel story line, Janie's best friend Harriet Cornwall (Sumalee Gunanukorn), a Harvard M.B.A., climbs the corporate ladder at Colgate-Palmolive while she is sleeping with her boss's boss, Paul Stuart, who is married. Paul (Aaron Zelman) is suitably unctuous. Harriet is ambitious and serves well as the straight woman for many of the jokes on Yiddish pronunciation that had the Loeb Ex audience laughing out loud at the play. Claire Ellis turns in a convincing performance as the corporate achiever Lillian Cornwall, Harriet's motn. Bill Selig and Mark Fish were both serviceable in their supporting roles...