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Alumni & Students Take a Winding Path to Optometry By Jacqui Cook
Dr. McCann echoes that same sentiment when she recounts how she came to ICO from a career with the University of Calgary Institute of Environmental Toxicology, researching the presence of PCBs and pesticides in the environment and in human breast milk. She was a week away from starting a master's program when she put the brakes on and decided it was not for her. "I kind of had a breakdown and realized I didn't want to do that anymore," she says. "I didn't want to spend my life in the lab, fighting for grants. I wanted to talk to more than the seven other people in my lab." When thinking about her options, she recalled meeting an optometrist at a Women in Science event she participated in as an undergraduate student at the University of Guelph in Ontario. "She was talking about her career and at the time I thought it sounded interesting," Dr. McCann says. "In optometry, you can do research, you can do patient care, you can do business. That really put the bug in my ear. When I started looking for alternatives to a career in research, I thought it was worth a look." She came to ICO in 2000 at the age of 27. The hardest part was adjusting to life in a dorm again, with a roommate and no income. The rest came easy. "My time away made me appreciate the education as She loved ICO from the moment she arrived for her interview. She canceled all her other interviews and stayed on after graduation to teach until she and her husband, Ryan Haiar, also OD '04, returned to his native South Dakota. She just started a new position partnering with seven MDs, running a general disease and urgent care clinic, while her husband is in private practice. She continues to serve and stay connected to ICO by being secretary-treasurer of the Alumni Council. In Optometry, you can do research. You can do patient care. You can do business. That really put the bug in my ear. Dr. McCann, now 40 with a 3-year-old son and a baby on the way, says anyone considering a significant career change has to do their research first to be sure. Almost any career can be researched thoroughly online, and often professionals in that field will let you shadow them to see if it's right for you. "As an older student, you're in a different phase of your life and taking on a heavy debt load and responsibility," she says. "You want to be sure that's what you want to do. You don't want to do it a third time." Jacqui Cook is a freelance writer in Chicago. She may be reached at
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Same But Different For some returning students, becoming an optometrist is an evolution from what they were doing, rather than the radical change it was for Junkin or Dr. Partnow. That was the case for two alumni, Ramona Baumfalk, OD '06, and Andrea McCann, OD '04. Both were research chemists before they came to ICO, and each cited a need to combine their love of science with the desire to be around people for making the change from laboratory to doctor's office. Dr. Baumfaulk graduated from Missouri State University with a degree in cellular and molecular biology and a minor in chemistry. Her plan was to do research into cancer and genetics, so she began working as a research assistant at a lab in Kansas City. One of her primary goals was to get published in a research journal, and that happened just two years out of college with an article in Infection and Immunity. So she was then left with the question of "What's next?" She answered that by taking a position as an associate research chemist at Quintiles Inc., testing new cancer drugs efficacy prior to clinical trial. After three years, that "What next?" question presented itself again when her employer asked her to pursue a PhD in chemistry. This time, the answer was a lot less clear. "I was lonely in the lab," Dr. Baumfalk says. "I wanted to talk more. I wanted to be able to share my expertise." Around that same time, she decided to get a part-time job for extra money toward her upcoming wedding. That job was selling eyeglasses—and that's when her new career began presenting itself. "I met some doctors and they asked why I didn't go into optometry," she says. "I noticed the doctors I worked with had such a wonderful bedside manner. When you go to your regular doctor, you have maybe five to seven minutes with the doctor. At an optometrist's office, you easily have 20 minutes of face-time with that doctor. That's something you don't see in a lot of fields." She narrowed it down to dermatology and optometry, but optometry won out because of her experience with the doctors in that practice and also the family flexibility it affords. I was lonely in the lab. I wanted to talk more. I wanted to share my expertise. "I only applied to ICO," Dr. Baumfalk says. "I had heard from a lot of different doctors I worked with that ICO was the best school. I reviewed the pass rate for board exams and was impressed at the high pass rate at ICO. I knew I had to apply there." Dr. Baumfalk, now 38, was 26 when she got to ICO and finished her residency at 31. She says intellectual curiosity made it an easy fit, no matter how old she was, and of course her science background helped a great deal. "I love learning, so it was phenomenal for me," she says. "It was great to have my life experience, but overall it was the feeling I was still growing. As an optometrist, you have to always have that thirst." Now back in Kansas City with her husband, Barry, and their three children ages 5, 3, and 2, she is a primary care optometrist in a hospital-based MD/OD practice. She says she has no regrets about how her career path developed. "I think my past in research really helped me find my niche and helped me become closer with different staff members," she says. "There are so many things you can do if you have an interest, but you have to make it happen." |
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An Officer and a Doctor Johnson notes that in many cases, returning students often have to give up a comfortable life and leave or uproot their families while they are studying at ICO. That was the case with Gary Partnow, OD '13, who graduated in May at the age of 41. He and his wife, Kellie, sold their four-bedroom house in Colorado and moved to a studio apartment in Chicago while he studied at ICO. He also left behind an 11-year career as an officer in the Colorado Springs Police Department. Dr. Partnow's father had a prosthetic eye, so he was always intrigued by optometry and vision health. But after graduating from college in Long Island, N.Y., the Brooklyn native decided to head west to Colorado. He spent time as an EMT and with a land-based ski patrol before pursing his dreams of being a pilot. He decided the path to doing that would be to become a police officer and become trained to fly police helicopters in Colorado Springs. Being an older student, you have experience and a little more grounding to weather the storms of optometry school After several years, though, he began to think there may still be something else out there for him. He got an inkling of what that might be at his wife's optometry appointment. "It was a combination of things that put me on the path to ICO," he says. "It was my father's prosthetic eye, how intrigued I've always been about the eye, and when I went to my wife's appointment one day, I looked around and thought it seemed like a nice environment," Dr. Partnow says. "I started off with one class just to see where I was. I got good grades, so I took two classes. When I decided to apply to optometry schools, I took a look at ICO and was impressed with their reputation and the location and board scores, so I chose them." He says being an older student made it easier for him to focus on the big picture and remember why he was in such a challenging program. He also says his experience as a police officer was excellent training for working with—and caring for—people of every age, socioeconomic level and ethnic background. "Being an older student, you have experience and a little more grounding to weather the storms of optometry school," he says. He says the ICO community was very supportive of him and his goals, though he admits it was tough to return to a demanding professional program at 38, more than a decade past the typical ICO student's age. "The whole thing is a challenge," he says. "We essentially left our life and had to really start over. It was a little painful, and being a poor student again is challenging. I never could have done it without my wife. She is my rock." As he holds his new optometry degree—and prepares to head back to Colorado with Kellie and their new baby girl—he has no doubts the experience was worth any sacrifices they had to make. He says anyone who feels intrigued by a new career should take some time to explore that calling, even if it's just to test the waters with a class or two, as he did before he came to ICO. "Try to live without regret," he says. "I prayed a lot. Giving my resignation and packing up and moving to Chicago was huge. You have to do what your heart wants you to do and live without regret. But before you do it, be sure you're prepared for the challenges. It was much harder than I thought." |
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Amanda Junkin always knew she'd be a writer. She loved English and writing classes as a student, and parlayed that passion into a career as a deadline-driven, adrenaline-fueled newspaper reporter and editor. She figured that's what she was always meant to do... until she fell in love with optometry. To do a 180 and be involved in math and science classes every day was quite a culture shock. There was definitely an adjustment College of Wooster in Ohio. "It isn't that a liberal arts education is easy, but it's a different type of thinking—essays, oral tests, papers. To do a 180 and be involved in math and science classes everyday was quite a culture shock. There was definitely an adjustment." |
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Preschoolers Get Grand Tour of ICO & IEI
Is there a future optometrist in the room? About 20 preschoolers from Chicago's Darwin Elementary School visited ICO and the IEI on Thursday with their parents, siblings and teachers. They got a tour, met with the dean, played with 3D vision therapies in pediatrics/binocular vision and got to ask ICO's Dr. Dominick Maino all about the eyes. Each student left with a pair of wrap-around sunglasses, a sticker emphasizing having an eye exam, and an IEI pencil. We hope to see them back as ICO students in about 22 years! To see the complete photo gallery, visit the ICO Facebook page.
Each year, the ICO Alumni Association recognizes certain alumni and friends for their contributions to the College and to the profession. This year's recipients are:
- Alumnus of the Year Award - Walt Mayo, OD '85
- Young Alumnus of the Year Award - Geoffrey Goodfellow, OD '01, FAAO
- Distinguished Friend Award - STAR Ophthalmic Instruments and Mrs. Sharon Uher
- Professional Achievement Award - Dave Hansen, OD '71, FAAO, FCOVD
- Excellence in Education Award - Dan Roberts, OD, PhD
- Humanitarian Award - Illinois State Sen. Kwame Raoul and OneSight
- Lifetime Service Award - Robert Johnson, OD '60, MS, FCOVD (posthumously)


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Meryl Streep is known for completely enveloping herself in her characters, capturing their nuances, speech patterns and personalities. In her films, she's transformed herself into such disparate people as the chef Julia Child, the writer Susan Orlean and plutonium-plant worker Karen Silkwood, winning countless honors and awards along the way.
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I have taught Anthropology and African Studies at Colby since 1994. My teaching and research interests focus on analyzing power dynamics that produce and maintain inequality, racism and violence, as well as activist and community efforts for social change. I have studied these issues in southern Somalia, South Africa, and the U.S. While on leave during 2012-13, supported by grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and ACLS, I am an ACLS Fellow at the Heyman Center at Columbia University.
Somali Bantu Refugees in the US. Since 2003, Lewiston, Maine has become home to thousands of Somali and Somali Bantu refugees, some of whom come from the village in Somalia where I conducted fieldwork in 1987-8. My current research documents their experiences and how their presence has transformed Lewiston. I am currently working on a book about Somali Bantu efforts in the U.S., Kenya, and Somalia to fashion lives at the intersection of militarism and humanitarianism as an example of a new norm of globalization, analyzing the way the refugees are creating subjectivities and new social relations as paradigmatic of a new global order. This project is supported by grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and American Council of Learned Societies.
View the website built by Colby students, members of the Somali Bantu community of Lewiston, and myself: The Somali Bantu Experience: From East Arica to Maine. Our museum exhibition at the Museum L/A associated with this website, Rivers of Immigration: Peoples of the Androscoggin, won awards from the American Association for State and Local History and the New England Museum Association.
Post Apartheid Transformation in Cape Town. This research project studies the challenges of effecting transformation in a city left with enduring material and ideological divisions after apartheid. Transforming Cape Town, (University of California Press 2008) follows the efforts of 6 projects of transformation, chronicling the success and failures of new grassroots initiatives to combat poverty, transform education, and support youth development. This book was recognized with a Leeds Honor Book Award from SUNTA.
Public Anthropology. Anthropology is a discipline of profound importance in a globalized world. Demonstrating anthropology's critical insights on contemporary issues is the central project of two coedited books with anthropologist Hugh Gusterson (George Mason University). The Insecure American (University of California Press, 2009) and Why America's Top Pundits are Wrong (University of California Press, 2005).
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Continuing IHS's legacy of catalyzing discipline-shaping ideas, this year's Scholarship & a Free Society program will support the next wave of influential thinkers contributing to the classical liberal intellectual tradition by bringing them together with current leading scholars in their fields.
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THE 105th Alresford Agricultural Show take places tomorrow at Tichborne Park.
It will give the chance for people to enjoy all aspects of rural life in Hampshire from cattle, pigs and sheep to combine harvesters and tractors. Last year an estimated 22,000 people attended the one-day event.
A quieter and more relaxing time will be had in the horticultural tents, where displays of roses, dahlias and chrysanthemums will form an oasis of calm away from the bleating and mooing.
Making a welcome return will be the Sheep Show which uses a selection of breeds and wacky presenters to tell you everything you could ever want to know about sheep. The trained sheep upstage the presenters with their performances, and even dance.
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Event secretary Val Watley, organising her first show, said also new this year were mini go-carts for children.
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"Porsche means looking at the world from a different angle. The fact that, unlike other cars, the ignition switch is located to the left of the steering wheel is just one indication that this company, these sports cars and this family are different from other automobile dynasties." Thus begins Generation Porsche, a brilliant new volume published by teNeues in the wake of the opening of the new Porsche Museum at Zuffenhausen's Porscheplatz in Stuttgart. The most comprehensive and best-designed pictorial history of the marque we've seen to date, it contains a brilliantly curated collection of artfully layered images, taking full advantage of the museum's archives and displays showing how three generations of the Porsche family have defined automobile history, and in particular the saga of the sports car. Until you can actually get over to Germany, this book is the next best thing.
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DESTINATION REVIEW – Victoria's Great Golfing Road
By Garry Kennedy
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Thirteenth Beach
Barwon Heads
The Sands Torquay
Apollo Bay
Port Fairy
The allure of the ocean come summer time in Victoria is compelling. As the mercury rises, tens of thousands chuck in their day job and make camp at hundreds of coastal towns along our vast coastline. Quiet sea-change villages are invaded by sun and sea seeking intruders.
While the golfer's car boot will often be emptied for the family's shovel, spade and boogie board, it's worth remembering that there are plenty of normally quiet golf courses along our coastline – hidden gems – waiting to be discovered. Their isolation from Melbourne's burgeoning CBD means visits by city folk are usually restricted to weekend rounds – but in the summer time madness they are swarmed by the tourist.
Don't let this increase in traffic deter you from visiting – be aware of their existence and enjoy golf's coastal pleasures.
Victoria's Great Ocean Road is world renowned for the spectacular drive and subsequent scenery it avails its travelers and each decaying Apostle of the world famous twelve has a corresponding coastal golf course along this famous route.
Starting at Queenscliff, you'll find the first of twelve wonderful golfing discoveries.
Set on Swan Island just off the tip of Queenscliff is this unique island course. Part of Defense Department land, visitors are screened by personal before crossing a single lane bridge that stretches over Swan Bay that itself surrounds the isle.
An environmental treasure, Swan Island is home to some of the last remaining Orange Bellied Parrots and bird watches are often as common a sight as club wielding combatants.
The stretch of holes at the western end of the course – six, seven and eight – provide magical vista's of the Queenscliff township on a part of the course that is literally at sea level and mere metres from the water's edge.
A short hop away is the Lonsdale Golf Club, itself a meager pitch from the entrance of Port Phillip Bay and the infamous Rip. This is a testing track for the accomplished golfer off the back tees, with thick and lush vegetation ready to gobble up stray balls. For those that don't bring their A-game, the course still pleases with some spectacular views out across Lake Victoria, which flanks some of the lower reaches of the course.
Set on a sand belt, the golfer can enjoy great conditions year round.
Thirteenth Beach
Thirteenth Beach boasts two 18 hole layouts. The Tony Cashmore designed Beach course is rated 7th best public access course in Australia by the 2007 Golf Course Guide. Renowned golf writer Darius Oliver rates its' four par threes as one of the best collection of par threes on any golf course in Australia! The layout features fairways cut through sand dunes, holes winding around Murtnagurt Lagoon and 3km of Ocean frontage.
Nick Faldo leant his hand to the design of the Creek Course in conjunction with Cashmore, and this layout has its own feel with well spaced fairways, gently undulating fairways and unique square teeing grounds. The overall conditioning of the entire complex is unsurpassed.
Barwon Heads
Barwon Heads Golf Course almost adjoins Thirteenth Beach. It's one of the best known and one of the original links layouts in Australia and a personal favourite. Once it was only accessible to members and their guests, now however (thankfully) green fee access is available midweek and on Sundays.
Like a good wine, the course seems to get better with every visit. It has a feel of royalty that extends from the timeless course to the stately clubhouse – infact the Club celebrates its Centenary in 2007.
Residential accommodation is available on course in the grand abode. Great stay and play packages for under $200 per person include golf, three meals in the majestic dining room and golf on this wonderful links. Coastal ti-tree, rolling sand dunes, fast running pure couch fairways, slick greens and the affect of the prevailing sea breezes toughen this otherwise "short by today's standard" course. The $70 green fee is a bit pricier than some, but justifiable and worthwhile.
Torquay Golf Course has a unique claim to fame – its address – Number One, Great Ocean Road. At Christmas time in particular this popular surfing township comes alive, and in sync is the Torquay Golf Club, which holds its very popular annual Pro Am. Hundreds flock to watch popular golfing entities tackle the layout, while enjoying ocean views. Camping near the elevated 12th tee is a great vantage spot to watch the professionals crack one down the fairway, while at your back you can watch them tackle the short par three seventeenth.
The Sands Torquay
The newest monolith of our 12 golfing Apostles along the Great Ocean Road is The Sands – Torquay. Designed by Australian golf sensation Stuart Appleby, the name of this mostly private and chic abode is apt – there are over 100 sandy bunkers awaiting an errant drive or iron. Immaculately groomed, The Sands has a couple of high vantage points with lovely views of the ocean and surf beaches.
Restricted public access is available at varying times (Monday, Tuesday and Fridays, Thursday arvo and Sunday morning), however house guests at the newly opened Peppers at The Sands get access 7 days subject to availability. Bookings are essential.
Anglesea Golf Course is the next stop on our sojourn west towards the South Australian border. Another sleepy village that literally bursts to life in the summer season, Anglesea is a terrific course. A major redevelopment in the 1990s had the fairways transformed to Wintergreen couch and more importantly a successful submission to the State Government and Barwon Water resulted in a recycled water scheme coming on line. This program has been of great benefit during the past 6 years of drought and year round the course enjoys excellent conditions. Recent changes that have taken place include a major upgrading of the clubhouse. However, with all these great facilities and lush fairways, it is the fauna that Anglesea is most famous for, or to be precise, the resident family of Eastern Grey kangaroos that number many hundred.
Tourists both local and overseas enjoy the sight of our national symbol sharing the fairway with golfers.
To play will cost you $36 midweek or $40 on the weekend.
Lorne is another popular destination along the Road – with a great pier (the Pier to Pub swim Classic is an institution), a great beach and of course the famous Cumberland Lorne Resort. Less famous is the nearby nine hole Lorne Country Club. A word of warning for the faint hearted – this is one hilly golf course but naturally hills mean high vantage points and accordingly the course has some great views overlooking the water.
Apollo Bay
A short trip down the road and you arrive at the southern most course on the western side of the state, Apollo Bay. We are nearing real Apostle Country. Once we swing past Cape Otway nearing Port Campbell National Park the stars of the Great Ocean Road can be viewed – along with Loch Ard Gorge, Sentinel Rock, The Arch and the now fallen London Bridge. Apollo Bay is a modest nine hole course, flat and very near the slapping water so again oceanic views prevail.
Peterborough is a tucked away escape incorporating Curdies Inlet and it is often traveled through by those navigating the road. It's a ploy by locals and regulars I'm sure for this is one of the prettiest spots along the way, and the golf course is a cracker! Only a nine holer, the first fairway is so wide you'd need the most wicked of slices or hooks to miss it. The sunken saucer green of the second is hard to spot, while other holes cross deep, cliff top ravines.
The coastal cliff top setting, undulating fairways and slick greens eek of authentic British links, makes Peterborough Golf Course a treasure for the golfing adventurer. The current $15 green fee is an absolute steel!
Warrnambool is the second last stop – a pretty course just on the outskirts of the burgeoning township. Lush fairways and a dramatically undulating landscape characterize this very enjoyable course. The layout and feel is not unlike the acclaimed Portsea golf course. You'll get great views from many tees (the fifth is named "Sea Views") but possibly none better than from the clubhouse itself. On a windy day it can offer great respite to the weary golfing warrior.
Green Fees are just $28, with access for non members Sunday – Friday. Visiting Club Members can play in the Saturday comp.
Port Fairy
Just 30 minutes further on and the last of the twelve golf courses along this mighty road is one of the most intriguing. Port Fairy is a true links golf course – possibly Australia's closest replica to the famous and world renowned United Kingdom links.
The par five twelfth runs parallel with the ocean, high on a dune wall and spectacular ocean vistas dominate.
Naturally the wind is the course's main guardian – if it's blowing you'll certainly know about it, and more often than not it is.
I met a bus load of British tourists on the practice green at Port Fairy a number of years ago and I spoke to a lady who was a part of the tour. She said the course was equal to any at home in Britain but to play on a similar standard links would cost around 100 pounds (around $250). Post Fairy's green fee – just $28!
The Club has just unveiled its' redesigned 15th hole - judged by some to be the best new hole in Australia and certain to become one of the most photographed.
"Port Fairy's 15th is, without doubt, one of the finest and most evocative holes built Down Under since WW11." This was the response from talented Australian golf writer, Paul Daley, after seeing photographs of the hole taken by Perry Cho of Warrnambool. Paul further enthused "When viewing Perry Cho's photography I felt transported to the fabled links at Ballybunion Golf Club (Old), Ireland".
The Great Ocean Road – one amazing drive, twelve amazing apostles and twelve amazing courses for the golfer to discover.
At a Glance
Queenscliff Golf Club
(03) 5258 4344
Lonsdale Golf Club
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Thirteenth Beach Golf Links
(03) 5254 2922
Barwon Heads Golf Club
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Torquay Golf Club
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The Sands Torquay
(03) 5264 8801
Anglesea Golf Club
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Lorne Golf Club
(03) 5289 1267
Apollo Bay Golf Club
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Peterborough Golf Club
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Warrnambool Golf Club
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Port Fairy Golf Links
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Bette Midler
was born in Honolulu, HI, to the only Jewish family in the neighborhood. After dropping out of a drama class at the University of Hawaii, she took a tiny role in the 1966 film
, playing a seasick boat passenger (though it's hard to see her when viewing the film). Training for a dancing career in New York,
made the casting rounds for several months before finally winning a chorus role, and then the featured part of Tzeitel, in the long-running Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof.
It helps to do something well that no one else does, and
found her forte by singing at the Continental Baths, a gay hangout in New York. Most bath house performers were painfully bad, but
established herself by combining genuine talent with the tackiness expected of her. As the "Divine Miss M,"
did an act consisting of campy (and dirty) specialty numbers; dead-on imitations of such earlier performers as
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and Libby Holman; and the most outrageously revealing costumes this side of
Bob Mackie
. Soon she outgrew the bath houses and went on to nightclub and recording-artist fame, earning a Grammy Award in 1973. After several years of sell-out tours,
re-entered films as the star of
The Rose
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film à clef
loosely based upon the life and times of
Janis Joplin
. The film was a success, but it failed to establish
as a dramatic actress; audiences, particularly gay fans, still preferred the Divine Miss M.
's next film, lived up to its name with well-publicized production squabbles between
, the director, producers, and a few of her co-stars. Following the film's failure,
wasn't seen onscreen until she signed a contract with Disney in 1986. Establishing a new film identity as a character comedienne,
sparkled in
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
(1986), and was even better as a loudmouthed kidnap victim in
Ruthless People
(1987). Using her restored film stature,
set up her own production company and produced
(1988), a pals-through-the-years saga that proved to be a four-hankie audience favorite. Once again attempting to establish herself as a tragedian,
starred in
(1989), a poorly-received remake of 1937's
Stella Dallas
For the Boys
(1992), offered
in tons of old-age makeup as a
Martha Raye
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responded to this "tribute" by suing the studio). The subsequent Scenes From a Mall (1991), which paired
Woody Allen
, and witchcraft fantasy
Hocus Pocus
(1993) also failed to truly showcase her talents. She rebounded somewhat in 1995 with a role in the wildly acclaimed
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Goldie Hawn
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still performs live concerts to sold-out crowds and continues to release albums, including Bathouse Bette, a tribute to her early singing days. In 1993, she scored an enormous success in a superb TV adaptation of the Broadway musical Gypsy. And, in 2000,
extended her talents to television, starring as herself in the aptly-named sitcom
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Rage, jealousy, murder, and Eastern European automotive engineering combine in this offbeat black comedy. Verplanck, NY, is a small town north of Manhattan that has the dubious distinction of being the Yugo capital of America; the ill-fated import compact was first test-marketed in Verplanck, and nearly everyone in town drives one. So no one finds it unusual when a yellow Yugo is seen floating in the river, though seeing someone trapped inside is out of the ordinary. Verplanck's chief of police, Wyatt Rash (Danny De Vito), discovers that the deceased driver was a prominent local citizen, Mona Dearly (Bette Midler), and the evidence suggests that Mona's death was no accident. But the investigation into Mona's murder is hampered by one rather significant detail: nearly everyone in town hated Mona and wanted her dead. She alienated her son Jeff (Marcus Thomas) and his business partner Bobby (Casey Affleck). Bobby's girlfriend Ellen (Neve Campbell) (who is also Rash's daughter) is convinced that Mona would have tried to drive a wedge into their relationship. Mona's husband Phil (William Fichtner) couldn't stand her and fell into an affair with Rona (Jamie Lee Curtis), the waitress at the local diner. And even Rash's sidekick, Deputy Feege (Peter Dobson), spent too much time on the wrong end of Mona's temper to care that she's dead. Before long, the question is no longer who is a suspect, but who isn't? Drowning Mona was directed by Nick Gomez, who earned positive notices for his independent films New Jersey Drive and Illtown. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Isn't She Great
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Jacqueline Susann spent a long career on the edges of show business as an actress and model, but it never really paid off until she quit acting to write her first novel. Valley of the Dolls was a proudly sleazy potboiler that sold 26 million copies and had readers wondering which characters matched up to which real-life show-biz figures. Susann wrote several other successful novels, but fame and fortune didn't make her life any less tumultuous; she had well-publicized problems with drugs and alcohol and a series of free-wheeling affairs, although she stayed with her husband Irving Mansfield until her death in 1974 at the age of 56. Isn't She Great is a screen biography that focuses on Susann's roller-coaster literary career, with Bette Midler as Susann and Nathan Lane as Mansfield; David Hyde Pierce, Stockard Channing, John Cleese, and Sarah Jessica Parker round out the supporting cast. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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What Women Want
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A man finds himself getting an unexpected crash course in the psychology of contemporary women in this romantic comedy. Nick Marshall (Mel Gibson) is a successful advertising executive living in Chicago who has long fancied himself a ladies' man, though he has precious little understanding of women beyond figuring out how to seduce them. One day, Nick receives a substantial electric shock in an accident in his bathroom; while he's not seriously injured, when he comes to, he discovers something remarkable has happened -- he can suddenly hear what women are thinking. At first, Nick finds himself learning all sorts of things he didn't want to know, but he also realizes how this can be used to his advantage -- especially after his old boss, Dan Wanamaker (Alan Alda) is replaced by a woman, Darcy Maguire (Helen Hunt). But Nick begins to feel differently about his unusual gift when he discovers Darcy is infatuated with him, and he finds himself falling for her. What Women Want also features Bette Midler as Nick's analyst, Delta Burke and Valerie Perrine as two of his co-workers, and Marisa Tomei as one of Nick's significant others. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Fantasia 2000
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Initially released to IMAX theaters at the crescendo of millennial fever and 60 years after the original Fantasia, Fantasia 2000 was meant to revitalize Walt Disney's goal of a constantly evolving film, with new segments replacing old ones with each re-release. Only The Sorcerer's Apprentice remains, with seven new shorts. Angular, abstracted butterfly-like shapes fly through the air in Beethoven's Symphony No. 5; computer-animated whales take flight in Respighi's Pines of Rome; Al Hirschfeld's caricatures of New York life come alive in George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue; Hans Christian Andersen's The Steadfast Tin Soldier is retold with computer animation against Dmitri Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 2, Allegro, Opus 102; frantic flamingos try to stop their yo-yoing comrade in Camille Saint-Saëns' Carnival of the Animals, Finale; Donald and Daisy Duck play Noah and his wife trying to manage the ark to Sir Edward Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance; and the cycle of life, death, and rebirth are celebrated in Stravinsky's Firebird Suite. ~ Emru Townsend, Rovi
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Get Bruce!
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This is a documentary portrait of a Hollywood comedy writer cited by many of entertainment's biggest stars as their comedic "secret weapon." Bruce Vilanch is a rotund, hirsute New Jersey native who left a job at a Chicago newspaper in the 1970s to become a gag writer for singer and actress Bette Midler. After toiling for several years in the dying genre of television variety shows and celebrity roasts, Vilanch became a staple of awards shows, scripting one-liners and song parodies at the Oscars, Emmys, and Grammys, for such luminaries as Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, and Whoopi Goldberg. All three of those stars, and many others, are interviewed about Vilanch's contributions to their work. Of particular note is a national controversy sparked by Vilanch's "off-color" racial remarks written for Ted Danson and Goldberg at a Friar's Club event, and his memorable riffs for emcee Crystal on the one-armed push-ups of Jack Palance at an Oscar telecast. Get Bruce! made Vilanch a more recognizable figure to mainstream audiences, and he became a regular on the TV game show revival of Hollywood Squares. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi
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Jackie's Back
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Soul diva Jackie Washington is determined to hit the comeback trail but seems to be having trouble finding the on-ramp in the mock-documentary comedy Jackie's Back. Jackie (played by Jenifer Lewis) was a Rhythm and Blues singer who had a few late '60's and early 70's hits, including "Yield" and the memorable "Look At Me (My Love For You Has Only Made Me Love Me More)," but she's spent much of the 80's and 90's playing the "Where Are They Now?" circuit. However, Jackie has organized what she hopes will be a gala comeback concert, and filmmaker Edward Whatsett St. John (Tim Curry) is on hand to film the event, and discusses the high and (frequent) low points of Jackie's career with such friends and well-wishers as Bette Midler, Liza Minnelli, Penny Marshall, Jackie Collins and Dolomite himself, Rudy Ray Moore. Meanwhile, Jackie's big gig is not going quite the way she planned. Directed by Robert Townsend, Jackie's Back was produced for the Lifetime Cable Network and originally aired June 14, 1999. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Murphy Brown: Never Can Say Goodbye, Part 1
In the first part of Murphy Brown's series finale (originally telecast as a single 60-minute episode along with Part Two), Murphy's plans to retire from "FYI" are sidetracked when another mammogram shows a possible malignancy. Wishing that the late tavernkeeper Phil (Pat Corley) were around to provide comfort and support, Murphy is astonished when he shows up in ghostly form--and even more astonished by the ghost's advice. Meanwhile, the rest of the "FYIers" decide to follow Murphy's example by moving on with her lives. Among those making cameo appearances are Bette Midler as Murphy's 93rd and final secretary, Candice Bergen's real-life mother Frances Bergen, an actress who goes by the name of Julia Roberts, and even a computer-generated Edward R. Murrow. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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In this Carl Reiner-directed romantic comedy, Bette Midler stars as a movie star named Lilly, who has had a fairly successful career which is now on the downturn. Years after a terrible divorce, she meets up again with her ex-husband Dan (Dennis Farina) at the wedding of their daughter Molly (Paula Marshall). Molly is marrying a young and promising politician, Keith Marks (Jamie Denton), and the wedding is a formal affair. Lilly and Dan have each remarried, and each despise the other's new spouse. Dan has taken up with the young bombshell who ruined the marriage, Rowena (Gail O'Grady). Lilly is wedded to their former marriage counselor, Alan (David Rasche), a psychobabble-spouting shrink. Lilly and Dan engage in a huge shouting match at the reception, and they are shooed outside, where their argument leads to a passionate reunion in a sports car. Impulsively, they run away together. Keith, seeking damage control to avert a possible political scandal, enlists Molly's help, and she hires a papparazi photographer, Joey (Danny Nucci), who has spent several years stalking Lilly with his camera and selling candid photos to celebrity magazines. Molly and Joey find Molly's parents at a hotel, but Lilly locks them in a room together so that she and Dan can have one old last romantic evening. Molly and Joey find themselves uncomfortably attracted to each other, leading to more romantic trouble. ~ Michael Betzold, Rovi
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Three women plot revenge on their two-timing husbands in this comedy. Brenda (Bette Midler), Elise (Goldie Hawn), and Annie (Diane Keaton) were close friends in college, but 27 years after graduation they've lost touch with each other, and it's not until a mutual friend of the three commits suicide that they meet at the funeral for the first time in years. It seems that their friend grew despondent after her husband left her for a younger woman, and all three find themselves in similar situations. Elise is an actress who finds herself out of work now that she's seen the shady side of 40, and her husband and producer Bill (Victor Garber) is demanding a divorce (and half of her fortune). Brenda helped her husband Morton (Dan Hedaya) open a profitable chain of discount electronics stores, but now that his commercials have made him a minor celebrity, he's taken up with a much younger (and thinner) woman. Annie has allowed her husband Aaron (Stephen Collins) to use her as a doormat throughout their marriage, and she's at a loss now that he's leaving her. After comparing notes, Brenda, Elise, and Annie decide that it's time to do something about their problems, and they hatch an elaborate blackmail scheme that will win them control of their ex-husband's businesses and allow them to do something positive with the money they helped earn. Heather Locklear and Ivana Trump both make cameo appearances. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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A gangster is looking to get away from crooked deals and double-crossing people but ends up in the movie business anyway in this comic crime story. Chili Palmer (John Travolta) is a Miami-based loan collector for the mob trying to collect a gambling debt. His assignment takes him to Hollywood to collect money from Harry Zimm (Gene Hackman), a mildly sleazy producer of low-budget horror movies. Although Chili intends to hurt Harry if necessary, he takes a certain liking to him and an even keener interest in Karen (Rene Russo), Harry's girlfriend, whom Chili recognizes from Harry's grade-B monster epics. It seems Harry has a script that he feels is Academy Award material, and he could get the project off the ground if he could get the right actor for the lead -- say, the well-respected but egocentric (and diminutive) Martin Weir (Danny DeVito). Chili thinks he has a feel for the movie business and decides to see what he can do to persuade Weir to get behind the project. Chili soon finds himself hip deep in the film industry, which at least puts him in contact with a higher grade of scumbags than he's used to. But Chili isn't the only criminal Harry's been dealing with; he's been obtaining financing from Bo Catlett (Delroy Lindo), a drug dealer with a highly uncertain temperament. An intelligently constructed crime story and a hilarious look at the absurdities of the film business, Get Shorty was based on the novel of the same name by Elmore Leonard; Leonard based Chili on a real-life former gangster of his acquaintance, though Chili's model never worked in Hollywood. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy romp around like coked-up versions of The Three Stooges in the frantic Disney romp Hocus Pocus. The film begins in 1693 where three witches -- Winifred (Bette Midler), Sarah (Sarah Jessica Parker), and Mary (Kathy Najimy) -- are preparing a potion that will grant them immortality and eternal youth. But before they finish mixing their cocktail, the people of Salem capture them and execute them for practicing witchcraft. Before their deaths, they vow to return to Salem 300 years hence on Halloween to exact their revenge. Three hundred years later, a skeptical, newly transplanted Californian, Max (Omri Katz), explores the ruins of the legendary witches' house and dares the witches to manifest themselves. Disregarding the warnings of his sister Dani (Thora Birch) and girlfriend Allison (Vinessa Shaw), Max lights the Candle of Black Flame. With that, the witches reappear to wreak havoc on the town. The kids take off with the witches' spellbook and a musty tome of hexes and recipes. The sorceresses, who will die by the morning light if they don't recite the incantation for immortality, have to get the books by whatever means they can. So, Winifred, Sarah, and Mary hop on their broomsticks for a chase through Halloween night. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
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The Simpsons: Krusty Gets Kancelled
The citizens of Springfield are being inundated with advertisements heralding the arrival of something called "Gabbo," raising curiosity to a fever pitch. One day, it is revealed that Gabbo is the irrepressible wooden sidekick of ventriloquist Arthur Crandall (voice of Hank Azaria), and that they are to star in a new television show. However, much to the dismay of Bart (voice of Nancy Cartwright) and Lisa (voice of Yeardley Smith), Gabbo's show is scheduled to air opposite that of their favorite entertainer, Krusty the Clown (voice of Dan Castellaneta), and soon Krusty's ratings sink through the floorboards as Gabbo leaps to unprecedented success. Krusty's show is dropped from the schedule, and after his career as a professional gambler hits the skids, Krusty is left with nowhere to go. Eager to help their fallen hero, Bart and Lisa suggest that Krusty stage a comeback special, featuring some of the big-name stars he's become friendly with during his years in show business. Krusty hands his address book to Bart and Lisa and asks them to get to work rounding up talent, while he attempts to lose the weight he put on with a steady diet of milkshakes. Appearing on Krusty's TV special are Bette Midler, Johnny Carson, Hugh Hefner, Luke Perry, and The Red Hot Chili Peppers, all of whom perform their own voices; Barry White and Elizabeth Taylor also provide voice cameos for the episode. "Krusty Gets Kancelled" first aired on May 13, 1993. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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Based on a Broadway play and featuring the Jule Styne and Stephen Sondheim score, this is a remake of the 1962 movie which was based on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, a stripper, depicting her life growing up in "show biz." ~ Tana Hobart, Rovi
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Bette Midler stars as a Martha Raye-type entertainer during the World War II era in this big-budget nostalgia piece. Midler plays big-band singer Dixie Leonard, who is chosen to perform at an overseas USO Christmas show by her uncle Art Silver (George Segal), a comedy writer for famed comedian Eddie Sparks (James Caan). Dixie is shuttled to London, where she is thrown on-stage with Eddie, who takes an immediate dislike to her. But her performance is a sensation, and the audience can't stop howling at Dixie's smart one-liner comebacks to Eddie. Dixie is catapulted to stardom, and the repartee between Eddie and Dixie becomes the stuff of legend. The two spar together through World War II, the McCarthy era, and Vietnam. But Dixie stops speaking to Eddie when he fires a writer for being a communist sympathizer and, later, she doesn't speak to him again after he arranges for a reunion between her and her son on the battlefields of Vietnam. Finally, Dixie, now an old woman, is cajoled to appear on a television awards show to reunite with a now decrepit Eddie, age 91. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi
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Yakety Yak: Take It Back
An informative presentation that includes a guide to recycling. Includes an information booklet and stars a large group of celebrities. Bugs Bunny, B.B. King, Kenny Loggins, Bette Midler and many others are here to spread the word. ~ Rovi
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Woody Allen and Bette Midler star as a well-heeled couple who spend their 16th wedding anniversary at the mall shopping for a party that they're throwing that night. In the course of the shopping afternoon, they watch their marriage hit the rocks as serious problems develop when the guy admits to an earlier infidelity, and an out-and-out argument develops. ~ Rovi
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Washington, DC Wednesday, February 13, 2013
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a hearing on problems facing the U.S. Postal Service.
The hearing examined the U.S. Postal Service's financial troubles and potential solutions, which include cost cutting, increased productivity and legislative and regulatory changes.
According to the committee, the Postal Service has defaulted on two payments to the U.S. Treasury, reached its $15 billion borrowing limit, and ended FY2012 with a record loss of $15.9 billion.
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD) testified on the first panel, followed by U.S. Postal Service Postmaster General and CEO Patrick Donahoe and U.S. Comptroller General Eugene Dodaro on a second panel.
A third panel included: Cliff Guffey, president of the American Postal Workers Union; Jeanette Dwyer, president of the National Rural Letter Carriers' Association; Robert Rapoza, president of the National Association of Postmasters of the United States; Joel Quadracci, chairman, president and CEO of Quad/Graphics Inc.; and Richard Geddes, associate professor of the Department of Policy Analysis and Management at Cornell University.
Sen. Tom Carper (D-DE) chaired the committee.
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Student Awards & Recognition News
The Kinkaid School is proud to have so many students receive recognition and awards at the local, state and national level. News of these awards and recognition are posted below.
Three 7th grade students attended the PSIA State Tournament on Saturday, April 28. The tournament was held in Ft. Worth on the campus of Texas Christian University. From 7:15AM to 4:30 PM, the students were busy participating and watching rounds in poetry, modern oratory and impromptu speaking. Congratulations to Sellers Thomas and Jordan Kassab who received blue ribbons for being one of the top 18 in the State. Jordan was recognized for poetry interpretation and Sellers was recognized for his modern oratory on small class sizes being essential to quality education. Isabel Parsons advanced to the State Finals in impromptu speaking. The speakers select one of the three topics they draw and have one minute to prepare a speech. Isabel selected "If you could go to an island, which one would it be. She selected Japan and discussed three reasons for her choice: the natural beauty of Japan, the beauty of the language, and Japan's pop culture. Isabel developed each of the areas. Congratulations to Isabel for receiving 2nd place in the State in Impromptu Speaking. She received a medal and certificate. All events included 7th and 8th grade students. We should be proud of our 7th grade students!! A special thank you to Kim Thomas and Carol Kassab who were with us and supported the students throughout the tournament.


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That tired old cliché that expectation is the mother of disappointment is proved true once again by this amusing, inventive but decidedly slight third feature from Ben Wheatley, the director of last year's phenomenal 'Kill List'. Working for the first time from someone else's script – 'Sightseers' was penned by TV acting and writing team Alice Lowe and Steve Oram, with input from Wheatley's longtime collaborator Amy Jump – Wheatley struggles to put his own stamp on what is inherently flawed material.
Lowe and Oram play Tina and Chris, a new couple who leave cosy Midland suburbia on a caravan tour around some of Northern England's least prepossessing tourist hotspots – Crich Tramway Village, Blue John Cavern, the Keswick Pencil Museum. But Chris's fusty, ginger-bearded exterior hides the heart and soul of a ruthless killer, and it's not long before the sheer, bloody-minded rudeness of the English public has him reaching for the nearest blunt instrument.
There are undoubted high points here – Wheatley's tried-and-tested knack for coaxing naturalistic, improvisational performances from his actors results in some off-the-cuff hilarity, though Lowe and Oram's original script presumably contained its fair share of zingers. The bleak mood – familiar to anyone who's suffered a low-rent English holiday-from-hell – is beautifully sustained, thanks to Wheatley's unerring eye for a crumbling ruin or a spot of flaky paintwork.
But the film never really settles into a comfortable style – it's never quite funny enough to be comedy or quite nasty enough to be horror, and the goofy breadth of the characterisation means that it's too blunt for satire (though a few sideswipes at our current austerity hell are well placed). We simply never care about either Chris or Tina, even as anti-heroes. Worst of all, the episodic, busy nature of the script means that Wheatley only occasionally gets the chance to spread his wings. One early sequence on a cliff face is stunning, fusing image, music and material to intoxicating effect, but it's never repeated.
'Sightseers' is a film to file alongside the likes of 'Somers Town' by Shane Meadows and Michael Winterbottom's 'A Cock and Bull Story': a diverting, enjoyable but not entirely successful experiment, and a minor film from a major director. Someone, get this man a proper budget.
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Dreadful. The high spots are enough to fill a trailer which we saw at the cinema, and as a result looked forward to the feature, only to find the movie is a doozy. 'Trailer-bait'. Is that a word? No apparent script. Makes 'Nuts In May' look like Chekhov, while this is more like a school play. Buttock-clenchingly awful. Embarrassed as an English person to see this movie is on release in America, where God only knows what they'll make of it. 2/10
jon mall Sun May 26 -
Very disappointed with Sightseers, especially after reading all the great reviews it has had, and the 88% rating on Rotten Tomatoes ! Are these reviewers on some kind of payroll ? Do they think they are somehow saving the British movie industry by hyping up any piece of shite that comes along ?
Based on a flimsy idea to begin with, it is the movie equivalent of a polished turd !
If you like laughing at autistic people with learning difficulties randomly murdering people you might be entertained by this film.
DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE - save your money and don't watch this embarrassment to British movies !PK Mon Apr 1Rated as: 1/5 -
This is a really disappointing film. I felt like sueing the reviewers they use on the poster. This is deciededly very unfunny, badly acted, and felt like media studies students had taken a camera off on holiday with a bunch of friends too stoned to make anything. The audeince I was in only laughed 3 times.I was most surprised to read afterwards that the 2 leads actually wrote this nonsense, as there was not much chemistry between them.The people here who give it 4 stars either had money in it or need to get a decent sense of humour. Just bad, bad ,bad.
Guy Sun Jan 6Rated as: 1/5 -
Taken as a whole, I very much enjoyed it. True, there were parts that were flat. But at 90 minutes long, I certainly enjoyed much more of it than not. The violence is stark, the humour dark, touching and well delivered. The leads were fantastic. Call me a ludite, but on first viewing I preferred it to Kill List. Although the leads were equally magnificent, no matter how many times I watch it, the ending just doesn't work for me.
Darth Jack Daniels Tue Dec 11 2012 -
Graham, my comment re dreary was based on the fact that apart from when having sex the two main characters didn't seem to appear without their waterproof jackets on possibly because of the cold and wet.
Ian Wed Dec 5 2012 -
Quirky, amusing, very British road movie, Runs out of fuel towards the end but for the most part it`s a refreshing delight. Three and a half stars,
critique Tue Dec 4 2012Rated as: 4/5 -
Had been looking forward to seeing this film for some time - after 2 failed attempts we finally managed it. I wanted to walk out after the first half hour but didn't want to give in - so wished I had. Agree with TM - excessively violent - so unnecessary. A few funny bits but ultimately it was a disappointing waste of time.
Cat Tue Dec 4 2012Rated as: 1/5 -
seems the guardinistas hasve strayed onto time out .. lets just review films by watching the traiiler..no need foe opinions when prejudices will suffice..and this film is two bob
john o sullivan Tue Dec 4 2012Rated as: 2/5 -
To Ian i dont know if you meant what you said the way you have typed it but
"Imagine an ultra violent Tarantino film but in a caravan in a very wet and dreary north west of england".
It aint that dreary up here and as for the film if you dont like it i probably willgraham Tue Dec 4 2012Rated as: 5/5 -
An average film, though it is very funny in places. Like Kill List, I think it lost its way as it went on. It is excessively violent – a shame really, as the violence could be implied.
Thurman Murman Mon Dec 3 2012Rated as: 3/5
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