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"Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark" is, likably, a Frankenstein of a movie that stitches together tales from the coltishly beloved 1980s book series by Alvin Schwartz and illustrated by Stephen Gammell.

Olivier must juggle work (including the guilt of one co-worker's suicide and the consequences of a one-night fling with another), the union (and the option of making more money, but only if he's willing to relocate to a different region), and his family, including his sister Betty (Laetitia Dosch), a likably wacky actor who briefly materializes to help out but who can't stay as long as he or the kids need.

This time last year they were a wide-eyed new band, siblings Lauren and Taylor likably naive, grateful for the little spark of interest in their brand of relentlessly catchy indie-pop.

Marsh is, given his profession, a surprisingly emotional man, likably so." TIM ADAMS

Zac Efron, likably blitzed but basically the straight man, and Adam Devine (from the "Pitch Perfect" comedies), as a rubber-faced geek with a tenuous hold on reality, are Dave and Mike Stangle, brothers who run a business selling liquor wholesale.

Then, and until fairly recently, Frank concentrated mostly on likably bilious mixed-media collages and assemblages along with large-scale paintings composed predominantly of slow-drying puddles of syrupy, translucent color.

Kicking off with a high-school graduation, "The Marked Ones'' centers on likably lunkheaded teenage buddies Jesse (Andrew Jacobs) and Hector (Jorge Diaz), as well as Jesse's tag-along relative Marisol (Gabrielle Walsh).

Even more than Joe Biden, who's Metternich by comparison, he's a walking gaffe-o-marie, which may be the most likably authentic thing about him.

When the film premiered at the Venice Film Festival last fall, The Hollywood Reporter said: "A likably unpleasant slice of Texas noir aims at the funny bone as much as the jugular." Scheduled to open this July, it has been rated NC-17 -- a decision with which Gershon basically agrees, despite a general discomfort with the rating process.

Hutchinson is a likably quasi-hapless white-collar Dad an extremely Caucasian Vancouverite whose mental life revolves around newspaper columnists television personalities and novels.

Unlike his Oscar-nominated role as the vengeful Sergeant Barnes in Platoon, Berenger's old-fashioned lawman is fair and likably grizzled.

They are likably eccentric-looking: each specimen is a floater single crystal, or a floater group of two or three crystals, of brownish black, rounded, matte-lustered sphalerite, with exactly one sharp, lustrous metallic gray freibergite crystal of 2 or 3 mm half-embedded, rising as a petite triangle of light above the sphalerite surface.