Its backing meanwhile is full of bushy-tailed strings and PG-rated guitar chugging; Jepsen's hairbrush vocals are charmingly heartfelt, and easy enough for popular Hollister-clad girls in schools everywhere to emulate.
As an adult, Solomon has a charmingly anachronistic manner – it is easy to imagine him in a velvet three piece suit, holding a monocle – so it is not surprising to learn he was an unusual little boy, one who would recount the plots of operas on the school bus (this, he writes, did not make him popular).
Mr. Watkins, 43, seemed palpably comfortable and charmingly eager.
In 1964, the director Richard Lester raised the exploitative teenage flick to previously unimagined heights of wit and visual flair in "A Hard Day's Night," a mock documentary in which the Beatles starred quite charmingly as themselves, an acting feat that is not as easy as it sounds.
Equally apt was Bělohlávek's gently humorous speech and his encouragement of the audience participation – both easy to misjudge, but on this occasion registering as charmingly benign; this was a lively Last Night that never threatened to become too raucous.
Given the gruesome parade of victims smashing their heads through posts or stabbing themselves with scissors, it's an easy detail to overlook; the occasional allusion to pleasure is almost charmingly forgettable.
She's charmingly vague about the reasons behind her financial woes, but cheerfully alludes to being very free and easy with money (which she blames on her tight-knit upbringing in the Welsh valleys) and "a house in India".
Ferrell and Heder, as well as Will Arnett and Amy Poehler as Stranz and Fairchild Van Waldenberg, a villainous brother-and-sister pair, and the charmingly awkward Jenna Fischer as their lovestruck little sister, work so hard to put the material over that it's easy to overlook the sad truth.
Mr. Rubin was charmingly philosophical.
