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Although, he acknowledges his "pretty-boy" good looks worked both as a plus and minus.
Tom Alderman: From the Father of Our Country to the Brat Pack in Three Easy Biographies Tom Alderman 2011
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Back in the early, best days of The Practice, McDermott balanced the typecast appeal of his pretty-boy looks with an unexpected intelligence and intensity; a sad soul under a scruffy shell.
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Duhamel's Tom is the kind of pretty-boy jock who is used to getting what he wants and who believes it's his prerogative to have it both ways if that's what he desires.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: The Romantics Marshall Fine 2010
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Although, he acknowledges his "pretty-boy" good looks worked both as a plus and minus.
Tom Alderman: From the Father of Our Country to the Brat Pack in Three Easy Biographies Tom Alderman 2011
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And these are not her kind of people, with their vanities, their self-serving agendas and invented personas, and their remarkably skewed visions of realityfrom the series 'aging, shallow, former pretty-boy leading man to its resentful, always-on-the-make cowriter to the officious young assistant who may be too hungry for her own good.
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Phillippe is silky and insinuating as his pretty-boy client, while Josh Lucas has a smugness that's wonderfully punctured as the assistant D.A. Marisa Tomei (as Haller's ex-wife), William H. Macy (as Haller's investigator), Shea Whigham (as a jailhouse snitch) and several others make their roles valuable and vibrant.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: The Lincoln Lawyer Marshall Fine 2011
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He manages to balance the pretty-boy routine with some more deliberate moments.
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A pretty-boy vampire, covered in sparkles, is torn to shreds by Dracula.
Can You Survive The Zombie Apocalypse? Max Brallier 2011
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Nothing on Come Around Sundown will mollify those who object to the Kings 'pretty-boy rewrites of rock history, the kind of hostile crowd they faced at the Reading festival.
Kings of Leon: Come Around Sundown – review Kitty Empire 2010
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Although, he acknowledges his "pretty-boy" good looks worked both as a plus and minus.
Tom Alderman: From the Father of Our Country to the Brat Pack in Three Easy Biographies Tom Alderman 2011
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