En route to his family's Christmas celebration, Nate meets Brenda ( Rachel Griffiths, an Oscar nominee for " Hilary and Jackie " ), a free spirit whose flightiness disguises how troubled her life has been.
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He didn't pretend to be a creative genius _ in fact, his running gag, his equivalent of Benny's cheapness or Gracie Allen's flightiness, was his penchant for stealing other people's jokes.
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Though not terribly subtle in its parallels between Barrie's real-life inspirations and his best-known creation, " Finding Neverland " is a smart, engaging portrait whose whimsy nicely complements the flightiness of " Peter Pan ."
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Yet it is the mischievous humor of the production that provides its appeal, with Guglielmo ( Stephan Genz ) and Ferrando ( Jeremy Ovenden ) joking and teasing as they test the flightiness of Fiordiligi and Dorabella under the lighthearted guidance of Don Alfonso ( Pietro Spagnoli ).
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He was gay, voluptuous, and daring; yet had neither perseverance or true courage, and was meanly selfish in all his aims . " Bertolini is brave, unsuspicious, merry, dissipated, and of extreme extravagance; his free flightiness to Emily distresses her.
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"Tumbleweeds, " on the other hand, is easy to take _ if you can get past McTeer's character, whose flightiness is more annoying than charming ( she really makes you empathize with her long-suffering daughter, well-played by Kimberly Brown ).
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As her husband, Joe, a transplanted British writer whose best-selling novel about their troubled marriage is about to be made into a film, Cumming, with his goofy grin, laughing eyes and aura of androgynous flightiness, projects the appeal of an adorable but elusive man-child, a Pied Piper of eternal playfulness.
