Review by Sam Moffitt
“Lots of folks get the hemrods Bill! You know my Mama had the hemrods…and my sister had the piles! You get them piles in your ass and can’t take a shit you in big trouble, that’s right! That’s right! Anybody who eats has got to take a shit! You get the hemrods or the piles and can’t take a shit you got’s to put a repository in your ass so’s you can take a shit!”
The previous statement is part of an actual conversation I overheard years ago, in the 1980s in fact, in St. Louis, when I worked as a police dispatcher. The unit was the Federal Protective Service and these words were spoken by Officer Earl Berry Jr., one of the more colorful characters I have encountered in my life. Yes he really did say all that,...
“Lots of folks get the hemrods Bill! You know my Mama had the hemrods…and my sister had the piles! You get them piles in your ass and can’t take a shit you in big trouble, that’s right! That’s right! Anybody who eats has got to take a shit! You get the hemrods or the piles and can’t take a shit you got’s to put a repository in your ass so’s you can take a shit!”
The previous statement is part of an actual conversation I overheard years ago, in the 1980s in fact, in St. Louis, when I worked as a police dispatcher. The unit was the Federal Protective Service and these words were spoken by Officer Earl Berry Jr., one of the more colorful characters I have encountered in my life. Yes he really did say all that,...
- 1/8/2014
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Sarah Ruhl's brilliant comedy revolves around Lane, a doctor who can't stand to clean her own house. Unfortunately for the busy physician, her depressed young cleaning lady, Mathilde's attitude toward dirt is as follows: "If the floor is dirty, look at the ceiling." Zoloft doesn't help, but Lane's sister, Virginia secretly takes on the job with uproarious results.
The Clean House won the 2004 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, awarded annually to the best English-language play written by a woman, and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Variety called the play a "...wondrously mad and moving work..." and The New York Times dubbed it a deeply romantic comedy... "a memorable play, imbued with a melancholy but somehow comforting philosophy: that the messes and disappointments of life are as much a part of its beauty as romantic love and chocolate ice cream, and a perfect punch line can be as sublime as the most wrenchingly lovely aria.
The Clean House won the 2004 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, awarded annually to the best English-language play written by a woman, and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Variety called the play a "...wondrously mad and moving work..." and The New York Times dubbed it a deeply romantic comedy... "a memorable play, imbued with a melancholy but somehow comforting philosophy: that the messes and disappointments of life are as much a part of its beauty as romantic love and chocolate ice cream, and a perfect punch line can be as sublime as the most wrenchingly lovely aria.
- 11/6/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
Star Tobin Bell talks up the latest installment's comment on health-care reform.
By Larry Carroll
Gerry Mendicino in "Saw VI"
Photo: Lionsgate
Universal City, California — In the grand history of Hollywood, there are a lot of iconic characters, and a ton of sequels. But how many have been so beloved, complex and financially successful that they've been able to go six movies deep? From Harry Potter to Darth Vader to Ernest P. Worrell, they are few and far between — but with plans for at least two more films under way, murderous madman Jigsaw is taking his game to the next level.
"There is the promise of a resolution," fresh-blood actress (and "Scream Queen" reality show winner) Tanedra Howard said of "Saw VI," this weekend's installment of what has become the top-grossing horror franchise of all time. "But in Jigsaw's mind it's like, 'Do I really want [a resolution] at this time, or can this continue?...
By Larry Carroll
Gerry Mendicino in "Saw VI"
Photo: Lionsgate
Universal City, California — In the grand history of Hollywood, there are a lot of iconic characters, and a ton of sequels. But how many have been so beloved, complex and financially successful that they've been able to go six movies deep? From Harry Potter to Darth Vader to Ernest P. Worrell, they are few and far between — but with plans for at least two more films under way, murderous madman Jigsaw is taking his game to the next level.
"There is the promise of a resolution," fresh-blood actress (and "Scream Queen" reality show winner) Tanedra Howard said of "Saw VI," this weekend's installment of what has become the top-grossing horror franchise of all time. "But in Jigsaw's mind it's like, 'Do I really want [a resolution] at this time, or can this continue?...
- 10/23/2009
- MTV Movie News
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