Encinitas man gets State prison for spitting on officer
Eva Knott 10:44 a.m., May 18
The Cove, a call-to-action documentary by Louie Psihoyos, is rather like a magnified detail from The End of the Line, a tight focus on a “little town with a really big secret,” the Japanese fishing port of Taiji, where an estimated twenty-three thousand dolphins and porpoises are covertly slaughtered every year. Upon his return from there, Psihoyos has pictures of the blood-red water to prove it. His chief guide and ally in this endeavor is Ric O’Barry, the one-time dolphin trainer on the Flipper TV series in the Sixties, who flipped (if you will) when the aquatic star of the show, real name Kathy, committed “suicide.” In large part the film is composed of standard talking-heads sermonettes, but it also records the hugger-mugger “mission” of an Ocean’s Eleven commando team in the field: high-def video cameras concealed in fake rocks, and so forth. The operation, for all its justifiable paranoia, doesn’t approach the pitch of excitement we would expect of a fictional thriller. But if it is not quite tense, at least it’s present-tense.
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Josh Board Aug. 5, 2009 @ 12:46 p.m.
Funny People was a good movie, although the pacing was off a bit. Again, though, it's disappointing that you gave away a key plot point (the fact that Sandler has a "miraculous recovery"). That adds nothing to the review, and ruins what could be a nice, happy moment for the film goer that's discovering the news for the first time in the doctors office with Sandler. The only saving grace is, the commercials for the film gave away the same plot point.
rglenn Aug. 13, 2009 @ 7:52 a.m.
I find the comment below a tetch cruel.
Meryl Streep, meanwhile, is nothing less than the prima donna of contemporary American cinema; the virtual monopolist, inasmuch as she can play practically anything, of the plum female roles “of a certain age,” few as they nowadays are; the envy, and conceivably the voodoo doll, of the fallen-away actresses of her generation (Glenn Close, Jessica Lange, Sissy Spacek, Debra Winger, Kathleen Turner, et al.); not only the absolute ruler but just about the sole survivor.
While it's true that Streep is the queen among her near 60 movie actress sisterhood, the actresses you mention above are hardly fallen-away.
Close has been getting raves for her lead performances in some TV series. Lange has just been Emmy nominated for her brilliant work in Grey Gardens. Spacek's latest picture, Get Low, will have it's world premiere as a prestigious gala in a month at the Toronto Film Festival, is only one of 3 working actresses to be nominated for more 5 best actress nominations (incl Fonda & Streep) and 9 ever. One of her noms was this decade for In the Bedroom, where she won most of the major film awards that year. Winger just had a plum role in the Jonathan Demme directed Rachel Getting Married playing oscar nominee Anne Hathaway's mother. Turner, while mostly off screens now, seems to be thriving on stage.
Josh Board Aug. 13, 2009 @ 5:52 p.m.
Good points, rglenn. And Sissy Spacek got some attention a few years back (and I believe an Oscar nomination) for In The Bedroom a few years ago.
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