In "Robot & Frank," an eager-to-please story set in the near future about an elderly gent, his robot and some awkwardly managed truths about old age, Frank Langella plays so many variations on cute and crotchety and with such suppleness — he's by turns a charming codger, a silver fox and a wise graybeard — that his performance comes close to a saving grace.
On every floor there are 18,000 different types of cute animal onesies, 1200 variations of plastic aviators, and rows of XXL T-shirts featuring slogans like "Gym hair, don't care!" or, inexplicably, "New York.
Yoda himself is a science-fiction variation on Jiminy Cricket, the cute little critter who, in the 1940 Disney classic, advises Pinocchio to "always let your conscience be your guide".
The Detox Coconut Colon Cleanser A variation on "Jugo De Vampiro", which is a cute Mexican term for "pooping vampire blood", this is an age-old recipe for detoxing (read: pooping, again).
I find out from my male friends that there are cute girls, pretty girls, hot girls, sexy girls, and sometimes variations or combinations of all of the above.
I'm making "RoosevElvis" sound cuter and more literal than it is, as if were a gay variation on "Play It Again, Sam," the 1972 movie in which a New York schlemiel (Woody Allen, natch) channels the ghost of Humphrey Bogart.
Many of the robotic toys bubble over with virtual personalities -- cute, microchip-based quirks that Andrew Filo, an inventor who has worked closely with Tiger Electronics, calls a "variation in their emotional states".
