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By Michael Rechtshaffen

Jan 29, 2007

With the right marketing it should find no shortage of satisfied customers.

PARK CITY — Waitress" is a frustrating film.

It's not because it doesn't deliver — it's a terrific Southern comedy that goes down as smoothly as a mint julep on a sultry afternoon.

Rather, it's that its director, screenwriter and co-star Adrienne Shelly, who was killed in her New York condo in October, had, in her third stint behind the camera, broken through with what is easily her most accomplished and accessible effort, and one that would have assured her a mainstream future if she wanted it.

A certified crowd tickler at Sundance, where Fox Searchlight won distribution rights, the picture stars a never better (or more radiant) Keri Russell as a small-town diner waitress whose passion for baking pies helps distract her from her unhappy marriage.

With the right marketing touch, "Waitress" should find no shortage of satisfied customers.

Stuck in a loveless marriage to the abusive Earl (Jeremy Sisto), Russell's Jenna isn't exactly thrilled when the pregnancy test she takes in the restroom at Joe's Pie Diner — where she waits tables along with no-nonsense Becky (Cheryl Hines) and mousy Dawn (Shelly) — comes up positive.

Although she has yet to figure out a viable way to say, "Goodbye, Earl," Jenna finds therapy in her highly original pie creations, with such names as I Don't Want Earl's Baby Pie and Pregnant Miserable Self-Pitying Loser Pie.

To further complicate matters, Jenna finds herself having a passionate affair with her new OB/GYN, the sympathetic but neurotic Dr. Pomatter (Nathan Fillion), which at least inspires her to create the Earl Murders Me Because I'm Having an Affair Pie (blackberries and blueberries smashed into a chocolate crust).

If "Waitress" was one of Jenna's pies, it would be a sky-high lemon meringue — light, airy, not too sweet, with a tart, satisfying filling.

Shelly, who probably was best known as an actress for her performances in some of Hal Hartley's early films, has a real affection for her characters and their foibles, and judging from the work of her ensemble cast, it clearly was infectious.

Russell really shines here, displaying an affinity for the type of quirky comedy she has seldom had the opportunity to play onscreen.

While Hines, Shelly, Pomatter and Sisto also are fine, it's a particular hoot to see Andy Griffith coaxed back into pictures as Old Joe, the crusty but tender diner owner who urges Jenna to start fresh.

Shelly closes with a coda showing an emancipated Jenna holding hands with her toddler daughter as they happily stroll off into the sunset. That the girl was played by Shelly's then-22-month-old daughter Sophie, for whom the film was written, lends "Waitress" a truly bittersweet poignancy.

WAITRESS

Fox Searchlight

A Night & Day Pictures presentation

Credits:

Director-screenwriter: Adrienne Shelly

Producer: Michael Roiff

Executive producers: Todd King, Jeff Rose, Danielle Renfrew, Robert Bauer

Director of photography: Matthew Irving

Production designer: Ramsey Avery

Editor: Annette Davey

Costume designer: Ariyela Wald-Cohain

Music: Andrew Hollander

Cast:

Jenna: Keri Russell

Dr. Pomatter: Nathan Fillion

Becky: Cheryl Hines

Dawn: Adrienne Shelly

Earl: Jeremy Sisto

Old Joe: Andy Griffith

Cal: Lew Temple

Running time — 104 minutes

No MPAA rating

The Wild Sort
feels like the culmination of all Westerns, a wrapping up
of every gun shot and dust-blown hero cliche into an all too personal epitaph.
Rent in an anonymous Texan town with its rutted streets, children playing
liberate and Temperance Union, the view shifts to a column of soldiers. At the paramount
rides Pike Bishop (William Holden), plainly the kingpin, next to his above-board-hand
man Dutch Engstrom (Ernest Borgnine). However, as gladly as the group moseys into
the local railroad office they whip short shotguns and start grabbing money - this
is no military force, they're a ally of outlaws! With a minimum of fuss ("If
they action, do away with 'em") they load up and prepare to gesticulation out, until the lookout
notices something suspicious - the glint of sunlight off of a gun barrel on a
neighbourhood roof-superb. It sure looks like an ambush to Pike.

The six trapped villains ready themselves, hoping to take cover with the march
of the Temperance Union. Deke Thornton (Robert Ryan), looking down on them,
fears exactly this. He used to ride with Pike in "the good old days" and he
knows how he thinks, although if a blood-bath is called for then Deke's not
going to turn away. Sure enough, at the worst moment, all hell breaks loose
and the crowded street mutates into a rifle range. Under the cover of this
carnage Pike escapes with Dutch, Lyle Gorch (Warren Oates), Tector Gorch (Ben
Johnson) and Angel (Jaime Sánchez) - leaving Crazy Lee (Bo Hopkins) behind.
They've all got a price on their heads and this bounty can only increase after
the latest massacre. Back at camp Pike realises the cost of his mistake -
several bags of washers and a score of lives.

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With Deke and his posse of low-life bounty hunters on their trail (not through
choice but by necessity), Pike's gang head south to Mexico and Angel's home
village. With Europe on the verge of World War I the era of these criminals with
their twisted honour is coming to an end - "We gotta start thinking beyond our
guns." Down in Mexico there is still anarchy, a country deep in the throes of
revolution and tin-pot dictators, such as self-appointed Generalissimo Mapache
(Emilio Fernández). A ruthless warlord with German connections and an
out-of-context motor car, he could turn out to be very useful to Pike's band
(since neither have much in common with the US government and are equally
happy to steal from the Federal troops). The only problem is that Mapache has
taken Angel's woman for himself.

Centering on US transition from lawless Wild West to superficially civilised
East,

The Wild Bunch

uses Pike and his gang as epic symbols. The entire
crew, even Angel on his first raid, reflect the disconnected ways of the
American frontiers, where individuals could break the law with impunity. The
coming of the telegraph and automobile changed all of this, showing Pike and
Dutch for the tired men that they are. Running alongside these changes is the
theme of loyalty, the bond formed between men on the edge of society. Every one
of them is dangerous, sometimes psychotically so, but they can laugh, whore and
drink together. The sweeping changes visible in the children loitering on the
edges of violence reflect how these attitudes are archaic - no longer will mere
friendship be enough.

An element which in inextricably linked with

The Wild Bunch

is violence
and the ritualistic orgies of gore and suffering possible. It's absolutely true
that Peckinpah's masterpiece contains staggering scenes of death but these are
mere bookends to the human story, the suffering and loss of direction felt by
those with no place to go. A heavy sense of wistfulness pervades the story, as
if it were only possible to return to the past. The reason that this succeeds,
without becoming sentimental, is largely due to the excellent acting and the
script that they were provided with. Somehow each character seems perfectly
cast, fitting into their alloted slot as if made for it. With Peckinpah's
guiding hand and vision, a deep sadness reveals itself as the characters realise
how much of a dead end their lives are.

The Wild Bunch

is a classic
experience for this small, resonant revelation alone.

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‘Labors’ are mammoth, driver-operated robots cast-off to enhance industrial strength, speed and productivity and essential to the Babylon Think up, an urban renewal trick in Tokyo Bay. Criminal appropriation of some Labors has prompted the genesis of a special the Old Bill division equipped with Sentry Labors (Patlabors). Ace animator Oshii habituated to these premises (from manga by Masami Yuuke) in compensation six made-in compensation-video shorts; their achievement led to this headline, more ambitious in scope and scope and much darker in tone. The designer of a new operating scheme for Labors has committed suicide after implanting a computer virus which causes them to run riot. The police be struck by to find out what activates the virus - as a huge typhoon bears down on the hi-tech Ark in Tokyo Bay. Oshii assumes knowledge of the shorts (the main characters are taken as already established), but doesn’t economize on spectacle or fears of technological disaster.

Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz

A revolting melodrama that’s as phony as falsies. It has the distinction
of being a trashy but respectable film. The Production Code tamed William
Bradford Huie’s naughty novel in which the film was based, and it was written
in a listless style by Sydney Boehm. The filmmakers sanitized things by
making the heroine a materialistic dance hall hostess instead of a prostitute,
as she was in the novel. The result is a flat romantic drama, whose only
asset is seeing the buxom Jane Russell in CinemaScope. The part was originally
intended for Marilyn Monroe, but she turned it down. Director Raoul Walsh
(”High Sierra”/”Esther and the King”/”The Big Trail) doesn’t help matters
by keeping things predictable, dull and absurd.

In 1941 bad girl dance hall hostess Mamie Stover (Jane Russell) is
escorted by a San Francisco policeman to a freighter bound for Honolulu
and tells the dancer/singer she’s not wanted in this town (why this is
so, is never explained). The only other passenger onboard is wealthy novelist
Jim Blair (Richard Egan), who is returning home to his Honolulu hilltop
luxury home. The two chat and Mamie lets the high-minded writer know that
she’s a poor gal from backwater Leesburg, Mississippi, who aspires to become
a millionaire, find love and get some respect. 

Mamie gets hired by the pragmatic owner of The Bungalow, Bertha Parchman
(Agnes Moorehead), to work in the dance hall that caters to military personal
who buy a ticket to dance with the babes and are hustled for drinks. Harry
Adkins (Michael Pate) is the sadistic manager and club enforcer of the
house rules: hostesses are forbidden to have boyfriends on the “outside,”
and are not permitted to go to Waikiki Beach or have a bank account. 

Jim’s lady friend is the docile fellow wealthy heiress hilltop resident
Anna lee (Joan Leslie) and Jim’s obedient manservant is Aki (Leon Lontok),
who resents Mamie because he feels she doesn’t belong in her boss’s elite
company. But Jim is not thinking with his head and romances Mamie. She
dyes her hair red and becomes the star attraction at the club that soon
changes its name to the “Flaming Mamie.”

After Pearl Harbor, Mamie has saved enough bread to buy real estate
at bargain basement prices from those businessmen fleeing in panic from
the island. Jim enlists in the army, and promises to marry Mamie after
the war if she quits her dance hall gig. But Bertha offers her a partnership
and the money is too good to refuse. When Jim learns that Mamie can’t be
trusted to keep her word he dumps her, and a despondent Mamie leaves town
to return home to Mississippi. While stopping over in San Francisco, Mamie’s
informed by the same policeman from before that she is not welcome (the
cop we can assume has nothing else to do but wait around the docks to tell
a bad girl like Mamie she’s not wanted in such a clean living town). After
Mamie tells him that she is just passing through on her way home, he comments
that she looks like she “didn’t do so good in Hawaii.” When Mamie counters
would he believe that she made a fortune and gave it away, he just shakes
his head. Well, that’s exactly my reaction.

Jane sings “Keep Your Eyes On the Hands,” the film’s signature song.

Krishna Reddy (Deep Katdare) finally leaves his Indian family territory in suburban America for the duration of college, where he expects to shrug off the shackles of Indian culture and be known as Kris. But he’s horrified to discover he’s been billetted with a roomful of other Desis*, three Indian Americans college students whose links to their cultures (including chicken tikka masal) remain firm while their Western interests (in girls) continues in the balance. And when he starts falling for Nina (Purva Bedi), Kris finds himself in conflict with everyone encompassing him – including himself.
*Desi – Indian slang to describe anyone from India living somewhere else.

‘Better than perpetually.’ - Joel Siegel, WABC-TV Unfledged York. Here they go again. Only faster. And tougher. Reggie Hammond (Eddie Murphy) and Jack Cates (Nick Nolte) return in the smash upshot that’s ‘better than the first!’ (Pat Collins, WWOR-TV). How much excel? For starters, the jostle puts a penalty on Reggie’s bean. The bus transporting him from the commit to paper flips over about 17 times. His prized Porsche is blown into scrap metal. Creeps in a bar assuage haven’t highbrow it’s dumb to get into Reggie mad. And the night is still young. Beforehand these 48 hours are up, Reggie and Jack will end up San Francisco inside out to focus an impalpable druglord. The boys are backside in village… and the action’s on the streets. Don’t miss it!

DVD REVIEW


Penn & Teller: Bullshit! - Opportunity ripe Three

Showtime Entertainment
||
Not Rated || Oct 3, 2006
Reviewed by

Gregory L. Amato


How Does The DVD Stash away Up?


CONTENT


9

 (out of 10)

THE VIDEO


7

 (out of 10)

THE AUDIO


9

 (out of 10)

THE EXTRAS


1

 (out of 10)

ALL-INCLUSIVE


8

 (out of 10)

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EPITOME

Penn Jillette and his tight-lipped comrade Teller are two long-circumstance magicians and comedians illustrious after their skepticism relating to all things.
These two have seen too much (and done most of it) relating to deception, misdirection, and outright trickery to assume trust to anything without good reason.

Bullshit!

is their forum for exposing phony people and stupid ideas, remarkably if these people or ideas have gained a jot of acceptance in habitual common sense.

CRITIQUE

Penn & Teller have a fairly established fashionableness for their expo at this apex:
Make their points with data and interviewees, and make the other guys look a charge out of prefer stupid assholes.
They have taken some heat in the sometime over unjust criticisms (second hand smoke from season one), but instead of ignoring it they owned up to their mistakes on the next show.
That’s a far war cry from the smug pontification usually found by talking heads trying to support their partisan viewpoints.
The fact is that these two are not talking heads—they are magicians, and therefore be sure better than most how people can trick us into believing ideas that are unsupported, silly, or unbiased lucid incorrect.
That doesn’t mean they’re the terminal locution on a disposed to or that they’re uninterrupted fair to various of their subjects (they aren’t).
It does mean that they rip off an effort in earnest to present ideas that would by go unheard, and confront ideas that have stood up without any good talk over with.
That administrative incorrectness is the official theme of the show.
Season three offers another thirteen episodes for your viewing pleasure.


Circumcision:


Circumcising male babies is common practice in the Mutual States, but there doesn’t appear to be any okay reason for it.
We do it this way because we’ve on all occasions done it this way is a logical fallacy, and the medical arguments an eye to it also look to be dubious.


Family Values:


Some say the traditional family is what keeps anarchy from breaking not at home on city streets.
Some say it’s been working for five thousand years, so why change it.
But that leaves us to wonder what a established family is, why it would be so much better than anything else, and if it at the end of the day is, today or in the old times, traditional.


Conspiracy Theories:


Penn & Teller take on theorists who believe there was no moon landing-place, that 9/11 was a government collusion, etc.
Too easy.


Life Coaching:


Freshness coaching is a hugely lucrative toil, both in terms of personal coaching and in terms of selling books.
But it’s not what you exchange so much as how you over persuaded it, and coaches have planned done an but for job of selling essentially nothing for a whole lot of profit.


Holier Than Thou:


Mother Teresa, Mahatma Gandhi, and the Dalai Lama are revered entirely the men for their spirituality and selflessness.
Penn & Teller experience a different take on all three when they look past the distinction and into the facts.


College:


College is overrated.
Overrated as an institution of higher erudition where under age people go to better themselves, and overrated as a means of securing a job afterwards.
This split theme doesn’t do well in a half-hour put to shame, and the focus just becomes “Factious correctness is bad.”


Grand Associate:


In one of the more put off episodes, Penn & Teller present a pretty strong case against the Patriot Act and uses of altered technology to transport away privacy, then casually dismiss them as impossible to utilize.
This episode includes their best social experiment since the bottled adulterate gag in season a given.


Whisker:


The responsibility of ringlets is a billion dollar a year vigour.
A odd and pleasant episode about how over-emphasized hair is in prime to day life.


Gun Put down:


One episode that could just as doubtlessly have gone in the opposite direction.
Penn claims that the founding fathers wrote the second attachment specifically planning for the next ungovernable overthrow of the American government (not

if

this would find, but

when

).
They’re essentially using a strawman error here, arguing against the hypothesis that guns should be “banned” rather than the whopping the better of adversary that no more than wants smarter customary.


Ghostbusters:


It turns out that ghost hunters and paranormal researchers are bullshit.
Also a pretty easy point to inundate, but funnier and more insightful than the event about conspiracy theories.


Endangered Species:


Not against endangered species themselves or the opinion that some species are near extinction, but against the Endangered Species Act of 1973 and the bad policies it continues to sire.


Signs From Isles of the Blessed:


As skeptics and atheists, Penn & Teller are naturally going to immediately call bullshit when someone claims they see the Virgin Mary in a grilled cheese sandwich.
This chapter goes beyond the precise to trace the financial motivations behind these religious icons, so uninterrupted the truly religious be enduring to question what’s in effect going on.


The Get the better of:


The needless life-work of sybaritism and status symbols, as well as the thought that there is a “best” of much of anything.
Not their “best” affair, as there’s so much ground to quilt with this theme, but still a believable one.

THE VIDEO


Bullshit

is presented in fullscreen format, the in any case clearance it was shown on Showtime HD.
The video quality is great.

THE AUDIO

Bullshit

is presented in 5.1 Dolby Digital Environment Sound with a 2.0 Spanish track and English subtitles.

EXTRAS

There’s a

photo gallery

and

filmographies for Penn and Teller

.
There are also a few

trailers

if you consider advertisements as extras (I don’t).
In other words, you’re buying the series and that’s it.

FINAL THOUGHT


Bullshit!

is some of Penn & Teller’s funniest at liberty.

VERDICT:


HIGHLY RECOMMENDED




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Oct 16, 2006

Regard for its allusions to Sophocles, Plato and Shakespeare, “Gabriela” is solid, undiluted soap. With hardly sufficiency substance to accomplish a 30-minute TV experience, let unaccompanied a feature, this spindly love story has little more on its mind than the lay stress that comes from cheating on one’s fiance. With three credited editors, a 1998 copyright on the end credits and a wildly uneven look, tyro writer-director-producer Vincent Jay Miller’s pic shows signs of being fiddled with, but in the vacillating, there’s no music. Being touted as a symbol of L.A. Latino peel production, meller is much too fragile to pull in a tap much of a theatrical shove, and will a moment be looking in the interest of dates in deep radiogram.

Intro quotes from Greek philosophers suggest a smart, informed film about love’s inherent conflicts, yet what unfolds is the softest possible drama, in which psychiatric hospital staffer Mike (Jaime P. Gomez) quickly goes dewy-eyed in the presence of intern therapist Gabriela (Seidy Gomez). Mike appears to be a confirmed bachelor, especially around his jesting co-worker Douglas (Troy Winbush, the latest case of a black male thesp cast as comic relief).

This being your basic soaper, Miller’s script has Gabriela engaged to workaholic lawyer Pat (Zach Galligan), who’s never seen actually working. Pic’s poor attention to character detail is especially notable in Gabriela’s case: While continually complaining that she’s overwhelmed with her hospital caseload and school work, we rarely see her dealing with clients and never see her cracking the books.

Instead, there’s an endless string of gauzy-shot scenes of her hanging out with Mike, supposedly on their lunch breaks. And though she finds herself rather easily straying into the arms of this new handsome and sensitive guy, her excuse is that she and Pat are “more like brother and sister than boyfriend and girlfriend,” even though this is never dramatized.

When Gabriela finally brings Mike back to her place, Pat shows up for the big confrontation. Mike won’t take this, um, lying down, and in a move of unintentionally comic desperation, actually pursues Gabriela to her familial Baja home in order to propose marriage.

Since character motivations couldn’t be murkier — Gabriela claims to be in a traditional arrangement with Pat, yet has been shacking up with him like any modern gal — the performances are a complete botch. Gomez and Lopez are pretty faces for the camera, but they put no brains or passion into their scenes.

Many familiar faces from Latino films and theater, including Lupe Ontiveros, Evelina Fernandez, Sal Lopez and Danny De La Paz, show up for brief, sometimes stereotypical cameos, then vanish. Most disappointingly for a Latino-made pic, depictions of South of the Border life are absurdly cliched, down to the requisite corrupt coppers.

Production values are undermined by an obviously limited budget, and even though an answer print was screened for review, neither costs nor lab work explain the extremely uneven photographic devices employed by lenser Adrian Rudomin. For the umpteenth time, a film score (this one by Craig Stuart Garfinkle) momentarily steals from classic Morricone.