The film is a flawless tale about the courage to rise up against the mob and toss aside unfounded fear.
Peyrefitte was so rich that when Flawless worried about losing her apartment in New York, he simply bought her building.
Because her brother was nervous that the porn connection might tank the song, Flawless set about learning how to sell music rights separately from film.
Clegg, a prominent literary agent, has followed two gut-wrenching memoirs about his drug addiction, "Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man" and "Ninety Days," with a flawless book about flawed but utterly sympathetic people forced to cope with some of the worst psychic pain imaginable.
This is not because the mechanics of the game are flawless, although they just about are, making your odyssey of car-jacking and bank-robbery effortlessly enjoyable.
This impressive, if not quite flawless, performance was about setting the tone for the Olympics in Vancouver next month; about trying to send a message that what was required to win in Plushenko's absence the past three seasons will no longer be sufficient.
But on its own terms "Rififi" is just about flawless: a genre movie brought off so keenly that it defines that genre's strengths and limits.
"Autumn Serenade" was just about flawless, but on "They Say It's Wonderful" Mr. James misjudged his re-entry after a double-time solo by Mr. Tyner, and then engaged in some aerial maneuvers that felt ill-considered and glib.
After a minor bobble in the run-through -- "Oops, sorry" -- he delivered a flawless, unscripted report about the poll, including the news that women were more likely than men to say they preferred to work for a man.
