And Lake, with her famous curtain of blond hair, is at her most silkily insinuating in " The Blue Dahlia " ( 1946 ), in which Ladd is at his most disoriented as an amnesiac Army veteran suspected of killing his wife.
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Even more important, the show ( unlike, say, the silkily homogenized " Smokey Joe's Cafe " ) lets each of its seven ensemble members emerge as a fully defined personality with a brazen, infectious delight in doing what he or she does best.
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In 1990, her feature-film debut as a two-timing floozy in the Coen brothers'Prohibition-era gangster drama " Miller's Crossing " was so silkily confident and original, she seemed destined to land on top of the Hollywood A-list.
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The air vibrated with a dizzying array of sounds, from soft rock and uptempo spiritual music to silkily sung commands of " star thru " and " load the boat . " ( " Whoo, whoo " the dancers regularly shouted in response .)
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Come to London in May, and a well-received production of " Othello " will have returned to the National rep, offering a robust David Harewood as the Moor and the increasingly impressive Simon Russell Beale as an Iago who reminds you now of a flayed toad, now of a squat pink spider silkily in command of its web.
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Which is why, for example, NBC's wildly popular drama " Law & Order " ( and its two spinoff shows, " Law & Order : Special Victims Unit " and " Law & Order : Criminal Intent " ) feature recurring characters played by African-American actors such as the silkily elegant Courtney B . Vance and the grittier rapper Ice-T . Why one Hispanic actor ( Jimmy Smits ) was arguably the most popular detective on " NYPD Blue " and another ( Esai Morales ) last year replaced black actor James McDaniel as the precinct lieutenant.
