"Labor Day," based on the novel by Joyce Maynard, is his first straight-up drama, with the smiles cut off: a risky move, as Woody Allen demonstrated when he stepped from "Annie Hall" into the gloom of "Interiors".
When educators in tweeds and ties fulminated against "rebelliousness" that "might contribute to social instability," Han smiled, cut them off, and said, "From the sound of it, your life experience has been even shallower than mine".
His constant smiles cut through the stress of questions about working for new bosses Andrew Friedman and Farhan Zaidi, of whether he feels he is on a one-year tryout, and will he ever lead them past the St . LouisCardinals?
With his easy smile, buzz cut and 6-foot-3 frame, Mr. Cohen fit the mold and the clothes.
Who prepares the meals at home? "Kim normally cooks and occasionally I'll help her," he said, before adding with a smile: "I'll cut up some vegetables or something".
WASHINGTON -- An ardent opponent of the federal stimulus plan showed up Monday in Winnetka, Ill., to smile and cut the ribbon at a ceremony unveiling a local project funded by that very stimulus.
On Saturday, when Mr. Pelley began asking how nuclear weapons would be monitored without an Energy Department, Mr. Perry, smiling broadly, cut in: "I'm glad you remembered it".
As I wrote last year in the magazine, the Gülenists, as they're known, come across in person as amalgams of Dale Carnegie and a Christian missionary: smiling, clean cut, and relentlessly cheerful.
Waving and smiling, he cut into a huge cake shaped like a stack of books while the novelist Louise Erdrich toasted him in Ojibwe, giving him the Indian name Everlasting Man of Opposites.
Maurice's priest and friend, the Rev. John A. Mennell, recalled his incandescent smile, his cut-to-the-chase greetings, his unerring instinct for doing the right thing, if not always the proper one.
