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BLM - From Lobelog: Free Ahed Tamimi! She hurt the IDF's masculinity.
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MOVIES - From TheVillageVoice: "Searching for Daniel Day-Lewis."
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MOVIES - From Variety: Quentin Tarantino's "Jackie Brown" will be 20 years old Christmas Day.
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STAR TREK - From Deadline: Paramount has set Mark L. Smith to write the screenplay for the announced R-rated Star Trek movie that Quentin Tarantino says he wants to direct and J.J. Abrams will produce.
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SPORTS - From BET: Former Major League Baseball player, Darryl Strawberry, admitted to having sex in the team clubhouse during games.
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POLITICS - From teleSUR: Oxfam describes the situation in Yemen as an "apocalypse," after 1000 days of a U.S. backed military campaign by Saudi Arabia.
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MOVIES - From Deadline: The board of directors of The Weinstein Company will meet today to consider bids to buy the company, in the wake of the co-founder Harvey Weinstein facing multiple accusations of sexual abuse, harassment, and misconduct.
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MOVIES - From GQ: "The Dark Optimism of Paul Thomas Anderson."
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MOVIES - From RollingStone: Cher makes her grand entry in the "Mamma Mia" sequel.
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MOVIES - From THR: Josh Gad joins Disney's "Artemis Fowl" film.
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MOVIES - From TheWrap: Nick Castle who played Michael Myers in John Carpenter's 1978 "Halloween" is returning to play the character again in next year's David Gordon Green directed reboot.
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MOVIES - From TheWrap: Bradley Cooper's "A Star is Born" remake, in which he stars with Lady Gaga, has been moved from a Summer 2018 release date to October 2018.
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MOVIES - From YahooEntertainment: Yahoo's "50 Best Movies of 2017." Their pick for best is "Lady Bird."
From YahooEntertainment: Yahoo's "10 Worse Movies of 2017." "Baywatch" is the winner/loser.
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SPORTS - From YahooEntertainment: NBA legend, former L.A. Laker, Kobe Bryant, talks about his animated short film, "Dear Basketball," directed by Disney legend, Glen Keane.
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BLM - From YahooLifestyle: George Zimmerman, who killed an African-American child named Trayvon Martin, has threatened to kill Jay-Z who is produced a six-part docuseries about Trayvon Martin, "Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story."
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COMICS - From THR: Elvis Presley will battle aliens! "Bubba Ho-Tep," the Joe R. Lansdale novella that became a 2002 cult film (from director Don Coscarelli), will get a prequel comic book from IDW Publishing in 2018.
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MOVIES - From BoxOfficeMojo: There will be a whole lotta movies released on Christmas Day 2017.
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MOVIES - From TheHollywoodReporter: Paramount Pictures announces release dates for GI Joe, Micronauts, and Dungeons & Dragons films.
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ANIMATION - From ShadowandAct: Adam Reid's animated sci-fi comedy, "Barry and Joe: The Animated Series," gets some backing from late-night talk show host, Conan O'Brien.
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TELEVISION - From ShadowandAct: HBO has picked up two new shows from Issa Rae, the creator of the acclaimed HBO series, "Insecure."
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SCANDAL - From Deadline: BBC preps a feature-length, definitive documentary about the "Harvey Weinstein sexual misconduct scandal."
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BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficeMojo: The winner of the 12/15 to 12/17/2017 weekend box office is "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" with an estimated take of $220 million.
From Deadline: "I, Tonya" leads specialty box office for the second weekend.
From Variety: "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" hits $230 million in international box office.
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From YahooEntertainment: Bob and Harvey Weinstein apparently blacklisted Oscar-winning actress Mira Sorvino from films in which they were involved, including "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy and "Bad Santa."
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STREAMING - From IndieWireTV: Ian McKellen wants to play Gandalf in Amazon's upcoming "Lord of the Rings" TV series. McKellen says he is not to old because Gandalf is over 7000 years old.
OBITS:
From TheWrap: Sports broadcaster, Dick Enberg, has died at the age of 82, Thursday, December 21, 2017. Over his nearly 60-year career, Enberg worked for CBS, NBC, and ESPN covering eight Super Bowls, multiple World Series, and the Wimbledon tennis tournament. He is also famous for his catchphrase, "Oh, my!"
From Variety: Film production designer, Therese DePrez, has died at the age of 52, Tuesday, December 19, 2017. DePrez is best known for her work on Darren Aronofsky's "Black Swan," but over her long career, she had worked on such films as Spike Lee's "Summer of Sam" and John Cameron Mitchell's "Hedwig and the Angry Inch."
From Deadline: The actress Hiep Thi Le has died at the age of 46, Tuesday, December 19, 2017. She was best known for playing the role of real-life Le Ly Hayslip in Oliver Stone's 1994, "Heaven and Earth." Le was also a celebrated restaurateur and chef.
From THR: The actress Heather North has died at the age of 71, Thursday, November 30, 2017. Although she appeared in numerous films and TV shows ("The Monkees," "My Three Sons"), North is best known as the voice of "Daphne Blake," on various "Scooby-Doo" animated TV series, beginning with the second season of the first Scooby-Doo series, "Scooby-Doo Where Are You!"
From BleedingCool: Bob Givens, the man who created the official design for Bugs Bunny, has died at the age of 99, Thursday, December 14, 2017. Given was asked to redesign the "too cute" Bugs, and Given's iconic look first appeared in the animated short film, "A Wild Hare." Given, once an employee of Walt Disney, participated in the notorious 1941 strike at Disney. [Thank you and rest in peace, Mr. Givens. - Leroy]
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Saturday, December 23, 2017
Friday, April 13, 2012
"Stuck on You" Not a Typical Farrelly Brothers Film
Stuck on You (2003)
Running time: 118 minutes (1 hour, 58 minutes)
MPAA – PG-13 for crude and sexual humor, and some language
DIRECTOR: The Farrelly Brothers
WRITERS: Bobby Farrelly and Peter Farrelly; from a story by Charles B. Wessler, Bennett Yellin, and the Farrelly Brothers
PRODUCERS: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly, Bradley Thomas, and Charles B. Wessler
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Dan Mindel (D.o.P)
EDITORS: Christopher Greenbury and Dave Terman
COMPOSER: Charlie Gartner
COMEDY with elements of drama
Starring: Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear, Eva Mendes, Cher, Seymour Cassel, Griffin Dunne, Wen Yann Shih, Jackie Flynn, Terence Bernie Hines, with Frankie Muniz, Jesse Ventura, and Meryl Streep
The subject of this review is Stuck on You, the 2003 comedy from brotherly filmmaking duo, Bobby and Peter Farrelly. The film follows the adventures of conjoined twin brothers who want to become professional actors.
In the Farrelly Bros.’ film, Stuck on You, Bob Tenor (Matt Damon) and his brother Walt (Greg Kinnear) are conjoined twins (also known as Siamese twins) living in Martha’s Vineyard and working at Bob restaurant, Quickie Burger. When Walt decides to pursue his acting career, Bob, of course, has to move to L.A. with Walt. The twins find fame and fortune when Cher (playing herself) picks the boys to be “co-stars” in a new TV show she’s obliged to do, hoping that the presence of the conjoined siblings will get the show cancelled. Of course, it doesn’t work, and the brothers become the program’s true stars. When Bob loses her girlfriend, however, the brothers may just have to do the thing that’s been in the back of their minds for most of their lives – have a difficult and dangerous surgery that will separate them. And even then, can they stand being apart from each other?
Farrelly films are known for the sibling directors including such shocking elements as characters with handicaps, physical deformities, retardation, and anything that makes a person really stand out in a crowd. Some of their characters are also astoundingly dumb, naïve, and stupid. Farrelly films succeed because their characters oddities make us uncomfortable, no matter how PC or charitable we may pretend to be. Within the context of the film, all the characters may act as if nothing is peculiar, but we know better, and this strangeness often leads to belly laughs.
In this Stuck on You, the Farrelly’s have toned things down considerable. Odd and odd-looking character prevail, but it all seems somewhat mundane, as if odd really isn’t odd. It’s part of the everyday fabric of the outside world. The citizens of Bob and Walt’s hometown certainly don’t act as if anything is “wrong” with the brothers; indeed, even the folks in la-la land don’t act all that freaked out by conjoined twins.
What makes Stuck on You work and that’s different from other Farrelly Bros. films is the poignancy; there is a realness to the story that goes beyond the usual craziness of Farrelly world. Damon and Kinnear are very good actors, and they sell us on the close-knit relationship between the brothers. Both are good-looking men and have charming personalities, so the audience is likely endeared to them. The closer the actors make us feel towards the characters, the more likely we’re going to laugh at the crazy things that happen to them and root for them to overcome obstacles.
Ultimately, it’s Damon and Kinnear who really sell this film as a heart-warming comedy and make it worth watching. That’s important because, Stuck on You is the antithesis of Farrelly classics like Kingpins and There’s Something About Mary. For all the laughs, the film is, indeed, quite dramatic, and while that drags at the film a few times, there are many heart-warming moments to go along with the belly laughs.
7 of 10
B+
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