Through many small miracles of acting, writing and direction, we see the friends' happiness start to unravel as Olivia blunders her way to a Cinderella ending something of a foregone conclusion for someone as delightful as Ms Aniston, the only member of the cast whose personal bodyguard is listed in the credits.

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Soon, the radius of the instrument becomes too narrow for him, so that his purely pianistic style of writing is broadened towards the direction of orchestral colors.

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As laceratingly first-rate as Schulberg's writing and Kazan's direction were, the film would not have worked had the lead actor failed to be convincing as a person whose hungers were so self-centered and all-consuming that he would do anything and step on anyone to get what he wanted.

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As I say, it's much better to set a broad direction at this stage, which is for lower, simpler, flatter taxes, if necessary and then people know the direction you're travelling in, but you're not actually writing budgets, five years before they have to be delivered.

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