janky promoters is a 2009 comedy film , re-teaming ice cube and mike epps who play as " janky " promoters who book rapper young jeezy to play at their concert , only to fail at doing it the right way and thus getting into more trouble than they bargained for .

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starring ice cube , porscha coleman , lil jj & mike epps .
“janky promoters , ” film ; comedy starring ice cube and mike epps as a pair of inept music promoters trying to pull together a young jeezy concert is set in modesto .
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the janky promoters is a movie starring ice cube , mike epps , and jeezy . two shady concert promoters ( cube and epps ) get into hot water when their chance to book a superstar rapper goes awry .
janky promoters
sets cube and another actor as music promoters who get the chance to book a top - tier hip - hop artist into a midsized california venue . the pair are ill equipped for such a task and everything goes wrong .
the janky promotersis the story about two music promoters get the chance to book a top - selling hip - hop artist in their midsized venue . the pair is ill equipped for such a task and everything goes wrong .
two shady concert promoters ( cube and epps ) get into hot water when their chance to book a superstar rapper goes awry .
despite finding success across genres , it seems to be the urban comedy route that cube is most invested in ; these are the only films he’s written or directed , and he keeps returning to similar projects every few years . janky promoters , the first film written by cube since the third chapter of the friday series , reunites the rapper with comedian mark epps in a story about over - ambitious concert promoters getting in over their heads with a major booking .
janky promoters
follows the shenanigans of a pair of shady concert promoters ( cube and epps ) , self - described
modesto ' s finest ,
who get in over their heads when they get a shot at booking a big - name hip - hop act . complications come in the form of a pot - growing neighborhood nemesis named mondo and cube ' s character ' s son ( nickelodeon star little jj ) , who is under contract with the old man .
yet another project dumped by third rail releasing , the weinstein co . subsidiary that gave us ( very few of us ) “killshot” and “outlander , ” “the janky promoters” may please fans of top - billed ice cube if they stumble across the pic during its fleeting pre - homevid run . a genially slapdash , brazenly non - pc comedy in the tradition of cube’s “friday” [ … ]
yet another project dumped by third rail releasing , the weinstein co . subsidiary that gave us ( very few of us ) “killshot” and “outlander , ” “the janky promoters” may please fans of top - billed ice cube if they stumble across the pic during its fleeting pre - homevid run . a genially slapdash , brazenly non - pc comedy in the tradition of cube’s “friday” franchise , “promoters” overall is no worse , and often slightly better , than most similar fare pitched at the euphemistically designated “urban audience , ” and might have sold a decent number of ducats had it not been placed in the theatrical equivalent of the witness relocation program .
tech values are passable though occasionally sloppy . the onscreen “explanation” of the title helpfully explains that “janky” is a term for “shady , untrustworthy , dishonest , despicable” ; trouble is , “untrustworthy” is misspelled “untrustworty . ” no , really .
friday co - stars ice cube and mike epps reunite to portray two shady concert promoters who attempt to make a mint and stage the show of a lifetime . against all odds , the fast - talking hustlers manage to talk a legitimate hip - hop superstar ( young jeezy ) into putting on a big show . but they ' ve only got 24 hours to sell out a massive concert hall . as the two unscrupulous promoters scramble to make the show a success , a whole host of embittered rivals scheme to ensure that they fail in spectacular fashion .
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ic : the weinsteins fucked me . [ laughs . ] yeah , basically , they fucked me . they was runnin’ through financial problems , so they couldn’t put the movie out on wide release . and they told us we could sell the movie to another company , give them their money back—i had money tied in that movie—and then release it wide . while we were making the deal over here , they put it out on dvd over there . and i found out because somebody told me , “i just got the dvd for janky promoters . ” i went through the roof .
young jeezy stars as himself , playing the rapper the promoters bring into their small club . marcus raboy , a former music video director who jumped to features with friday after next , is at the helm . cube produces alongside matt alvarez , who put together the barbershop films . ( sean collier / bop )
russell redds ( ice cube ) and jellybean ( mike epps ) , a pair of shady concert promoters self - described as
modesto ' s finest ,
get in over their heads when they get a shot at booking a big - name hip - hop act . complications come in the form of a pot - growing neighborhood nemesis named mondo and redds ' teenage son ( little jj ) .
other movies that have filmed at the glen capri include the country bears , diamonds & guns , and janky promoters . episodes of without a trace , parks and recreation , cold case , saving grace , night stalker , close to home , day break , windfall , lovespring international , mad men , and nip / tuck have also been shot at the glen capri . you can check out the hotel’s very thorough filming page , which chronicles all of the productions that have been filmed on the premises over the past ten years , on its website here . love it ! there are actually several different motels in the glen capri chain and the one located at 326 colorado street , also in glendale , has been used for filming , as well . it has appeared in episodes of life and the surreal life and in a 2007 smash mouth music video .
pic may please fans of ice cube if they stumble across it during its fleeting pre - homevid run .
with : with : ice cube , mike epps , young jeezy , lahmard tate , julio oscar mechoso , tamala jones ,
lil ' jj
james lewis , glenn plummer , juanita jennings .
teamed once again with mike epps — his co - star in “all about the benjamins” and two “friday” installments — cube doesn’t exactly exert himself as russell redds , an overly ambitious and chronically cash - strapped wheeler - dealer who tries , with only infrequent success , to promote rap concerts in beautiful downtown modesto , calif . it’s a tailor - made role for cube — not surprising , considering he wrote the script — and he plays it with his familiar mix of brash - talking bluster and brow - knitting frustration .
likewise , as russell’s partner , jellyroll , an even less savvy would - be impresario , epps goes through the motions with reliable shtick — a little self - delusional swagger here , a bit of bling - flinging there , flashes of mortal terror scattered throughout .
the duo’s latest venture is a typically undercapitalized attempt to present a modesto concert by rapper young jeezy ( played , in a bold stroke of casting , by rapper young jeezy ) . but this enterprise serves merely as an excuse for a loose - knit series of unevenly amusing encounters with , among others , russell’s sassy , crack - dealing mom ( juanita jennings ) , a skeptical theater owner ( julio oscar mechoso ) , young jeezy’s prickly road manager ( lahmard tate ) , russell’s wannabe rapper son ( lil’ jj , billed here as “lil’ jj” james lewis ) and a murderously jealous cop ( glenn plummer ) whose wife unwisely consorts with jellyroll .
pic earns its r rating : sexual activity is frequently referenced — and , in one case , simulated just out of camera range — and quite a bit of the dialogue is profanely funny . two of the most hilarious wisecracks — one involving michael vick , the other mentioning martin luther king jr . — are almost shocking in their cavalier disregard for good taste .
helmer marcus raboy ( “friday after next” ) keeps the pace relaxed without undue dawdling . pic doesn’t build to a climax so much as slow down and then stop , indicating that , at some point , everyone involved simply shrugged and collectively said , “ok , that’s enough fun , let’s wrap it up and go home . ” the good news is , auds should feel pretty much the same way at precisely the same point .
production : a third rail releasing release of a dimension pictures presentation of a cube vision production . produced by ice cube , matt alvarez . executive producers , bob weinstein , harvey weinstein , neil machlis . co - producer , david k . hebenstreit . directed by marcus raboy . screenplay , ice cube .
crew : camera ( technicolor ) , tom priestly ; editor , robert ivison ; music , john murphy ; music supervisor , spring aspers ; production designer , bradley thordarson ; art director , robert strohmaier ; set designer , betty ruhl ; costume designer , dana campbell ; sound ( dolby dts / sdds ) , walter anderson ; assistant director , donald sparks ; casting , kim taylor - coleman . reviewed at premiere nasa dollar 8 , webster , texas , oct . 21 , 2009 . mpaa rating : r . running time : 85 min .
with : with : ice cube , mike epps , young jeezy , lahmard tate , julio oscar mechoso , tamala jones ,
lil ' jj
james lewis , glenn plummer , juanita jennings .
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the a . v . club : lottery ticket is a bit like friday and barbershop —a slice - of - life comedy with a nice neighborhood feel . is that one of the things that appealed to you about it ?
ice cube : uh… not really . but you know , we got young directors and writers who are fans of the barbershop and friday movies . so i understand the similarities in the writing and the shooting . i definitely want these dudes to express themselves , because we work with a lot of first - time directors . so that ain’t really what appealed to me the most . what appealed to me was just the upbeat neighborhood comedy . i think that’s straight in our wheelhouse . we’re one of the best out there that do this kind of movie . and you know , it’s smart business to do it .
avc : you’ve said that you do more comedies than dramas because those are the films that get made and those are the films that make money . why do you think that is ?
ic : i think you know we went through a wave in the ’90s of some hardcore films . from boyz n the hood to menace ii society and south central . if you remember , there was always little incidents in those theaters . so i really think the theaters went to the movie studios and basically said they didn’t really want the hard dramas . [ laughs . ] you know what i mean ? so i think it was a shift of “yo , let’s do more comedies . ” it’s really no incidents , no issues , you know . people enjoy ’em , and they go see ’em all the time . so i think that just became the black hollywood fare , so to speak .
ic : of course . i think on the consumer tip , of course . and that’s why i do more of these type movies . simply because my records are hard . my records talk about what people are going through most of the time . and these movies—when people go out to the movies , they wanna escape the reality , or see an upbeat reality , you know , that’s not so drab . they respond to these movies and watch them over and over again .
avc : speaking of dramas , there’s going to be a n . w . a . movie . what’s your involvement in that ?
ic : i’ve been working close with new line and tomica wright , eazy - e’s widow , on just kind of getting our ducks in a row on this movie . right now , we’re going into the scriptwriting phase . it’s a lot of outlines . what’s tricky is , it’s five different stories that have to come together and make one linear movie . we can’t put everything in there , or it turns into a miniseries . we’re trying to figure out what stays , what goes , what the movie’s gonna be .
ic : it’s crazy . when i did boyz n the hood , i never thought how we grew up in south central was interesting enough for a movie . and i never would think that my life would be interesting enough for a movie . so it’s just one surprise after another . really , after n . w . a . , it’s been constant growth and surprise .
avc : but your life is definitely part of history . you’re a major part of history of the last 30 years .
ic : yeah . which is cool , you know ? i guess when you first set out to do something , that’s what you wanna be . you wanna be remembered for making an impact and changing things . i guess for the good or for the bad , it don’t matter . but i guess you just wanna be remembered when it’s all said and done .
ic : i think so . i think , to me , reality is better than being fake . n . w . a . was so real , it changed the trajectory of pop culture in a lot of ways . because before , you would have… take somebody like ike turner , who… [ punches his palm . ] you know what kind of kid he is , but on tv , he’s a nice guy . now , ike turner could be ike turner . [ laughs . ] you know what i mean ? nowadays , you can be yourself . you don’t have to put on this façade . you can be who you are and still be just as successful as the ones who put on the fake façade . you know , it’s like reality is just as important as fiction .
avc : but it seems like with gangsta rap , there’s a lot of non - reality and posturing .
ic : at a certain point , the lines start to blur and crisscross from reality to fantasy . it’s kind of being in a dream world and being in the real world at the same time . that tends to happen with anything . you can take movie - reel shots of the iraq war , or a comic book of the iraq war . one of ’em is totally fiction , but it still stems from reality . and it’s kind of the world we live in . you go from reality to damn near comic book on any subject you can think of .
avc : do you think gangsta rap would be the cultural force that it is if were not for n . w . a . ?
ic : i don’t think so . i think we made it more than just gangsta rap . we made it a political statement . we’re most famous for our most political record , “fuck tha police . ” it’s a message a lot of people around the world wanted to say for so long , and it’s kind of like we released the floodgates , you know what i mean ?
ic : not only for a community , but for—all over the world , you have people basically loving this song , because it fights the authority that everybody faces all around the world , which is the police and police brutality . you know , i think by that song alone , it sets us apart from the rest .
ic : yeah . i mean , it stems from there and can go on to bigger and better agencies , you know what i’m sayin’ ? we started off talking about our oppressor , our overseer , which was the sheriffs , the police department , l . a . p . d . but from that song , you can stem all the way up the ladder . i think people feel that .
avc : you were bused to school as a kid . how do you think that affected the way you see the world ?
ic : well , i know that it is a world out there . sometimes when you’re relegated to your neighborhood , you forget that there’s more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the world . and that just gave me a chance to see how life could be . and it gave me a chance to interact with everybody , not just black people or mexicans . it made me just a little more worldly .
ic : yeah . no doubt . you know , just being on the freeway . [ laughs . ] going through all these different neighborhoods just broadens your horizons .
avc : —and were surprised that it didn’t receive a big release , like a lot of your other films with mike epps . what happened ?
ic : nah . it was the shadiest shit that ever happened to me in the movie business .
avc : and that’s surreal , because that’s what the plot of the film is about : people getting fucked over in business .
ic : exactly . so it’s real ironic . and the movie was unfinished . we still had a few days of reshoots we had to do to shore up the end . it had a lot of loose ends . the music wasn’t right . and they just basically snuck over here , edited it , finished it , and put it out . it was like crackhead shit . stealing the microwave out your grandmamma’s house and selling it on the street . [ laughs . ] so you know , i learned a lesson . but that’s what happened with that movie . that movie would’ve made money . people would’ve went to go see it . they just tanked it .
ic : no ! nah , i’m not happy . ’cause it could have been , i think , at least 25 percent better . and you know , you want to finish the movie . you don’t want people to see a rough draft , you know what i’m sayin’ ? so it was kind of wack .
ic : i mean , i ain’t gonna say their names . [ laughs . ] but it’s some dudes out of ohio . they’re the ones who came back there , didn’t have no money . [ laughs . ] and they came back with jewelry , and they wanted to pay me in jewelry . so that’s a part i put in the movie : “gimme that watch . ” [ laughs . ] so you know , we broke down the equipment , and it was a riot , just like it was in the movie . people went crazy when they saw my dj taking equipment down . they just went crazy . guns was pulled out .
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it ' s a tailor - made role for cube - - not surprising , considering he wrote the script - - and he plays it with his familiar mix of brash - talking bluster and brow - knitting frustration .
humorless feature film that aspires toward a comedic pitch that should ' ve never been placed in the hands of ice cube . mike epps , sure . but cube is best bewildered , not fitted for clown shoes .
ice cube and mike epps ' much - delayed fourth screen teaming has to be a landmark of some sorts in how a company ' s complete lack of concern for its own product could not be more brazenly apparent .
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born of southern parents in los angeles , ice cube was educated in the phoenix institute of technology . he first came into public notice as a singer and songwriter in the band n . w . a . ( niggers with . . .
mike epps hailing from indianapolis , mike epps started his career on stage as a comedian . born into a large family with eight siblings , epps was the class clown who decided in his teens to enter a . . .
this native to pasadena , california has always been interested in acting , and practiced at home imitating characters she saw on television . while she was growing up , her family encouraged her to study . . .
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series ; fx crime drama about an outlaw motorcycle club is set in the fictitious central valley town of charming but makes reference to happenings in modesto throughout its run .
references to modesto in television , movies and music date back more than 50 years .
“it’s a mad , mad , mad , mad world , ” film ; jonathan winters’ trucker character drives the modesto - to - yuma run .
“the big valley , ” series ; western starring barbara stanwyck and lee majors is set in and mentions the stockton / modesto area .
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“the streets of san francisco , ” series ; michael douglas’ san francisco detective was from modesto .
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“modesto is not that sweet , ” song ; brooklyn - based indie band the hold steady released the song with some bitter lyrics about an ex - love interest who wound up in modesto .
“retro dance record , ” song ; oakland hip - hop artist mac dre rapped “for you , i’d walk to modesto” in the song off his “the game is thick , vol . 2” album .
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“jericho , ” series ; after a nuclear apocalypse , the modesto bee is now the “second - largest paper in california . ”
“st . modesto , ” song ; death cab for cutie guitarist chris walla releases the song with lyrics that include references to the valley and altamont .
“sons of anarchy , ” series ; fx crime drama about an outlaw motorcycle club is set in the fictitious central valley town of charming but makes reference to happenings in modesto throughout its run .
“monsters v . aliens , ” film ; dreamworks animated 3 - d feature opens in modesto when a meteor strikes the city and starts the action .
“up in the air , ” film ; george clooney’s corporate downsizer says he is in “newark on the 12th , modesto on the 13th , ” when trying to coordinate schedules .
“the mentalist , ” series ; sacramento - based crime procedural on cbs has the lead character chide a modesto city councilman’s wife that she is “the big city” now .
“entourage , ” series ; hbo show about the ins and outs of hollywood mentions “40 idiots from modesto” who didn’t like a tv pilot .
“up all night , ” series ; maya rudolph’s tv - host character shows a somewhat positive review ( “they said they’d seen far worse . ” ) from the modesto bee on screen and says , “thanks , modesto bee . ”
“the internship , ” movie ; vince vaughn / owen wilson comedy has its characters visit an old - age home in a city called modesto colony .
“looking , ” series ; hbo show about a group of gay friends living in san francisco has characters take a road trip to modesto for a family funeral and was filmed in town for some scenes .
“american crime” series ; abc drama is set in modesto and used a few background images of the city , while most filming was done in austin , texas .
she took millions from people who wanted a baby . former modesto woman arrested again
a few weeks ago , i dragged the grim cheaper out to stalk the glen capri inn & suites – a historic and oft - filmed glendale - area motel that has appeared in over twenty movie and television productions in the past six years alone . i was most interested in stalking the property due to its appearance in the 2002 flick the good girl , which starred my girl jen aniston . and even though i didn’t like the good girl at all ( it was just far too dark and depressing for my taste ) , because ja had filmed there , i was dying to see the motel which was featured in it in person .
before arriving at the glen capri inn & suites , i was a little nervous that the place would not be very stalker - friendly and that taking photographs of the premises would be a big no - no . as it turns out , though , i needn’t have worried . the man working at the front desk was very nice and said that we could take all of the pictures that we wanted . and there was even a “wall of fame” located in the main office , with signed headshots of all of the actors who had filmed at the motel on display .
as you can imagine , i just about died when i saw my girl jen’s autographed picture hanging on the wall . so incredibly cool !
in the good girl , the glen capri stood in for the texas - area motel where justine last ( aka jennifer aniston ) and holden worther ( aka jake gyllenhaal ) conducted their on - going affair .
. . . and room 8 were used in the flick . i don’t want to give away the ending , but room 8 also featured significantly in the movie’s climactic finale . on a good girl side note – mike , from movieshotsla , recently stalked retail rodeo , the discount store where justine and holden worked in the movie . you can see pics of it on his site here .
in 2004’s raising helen , the glen capri stood in for the new york - area motel where helen harris ( aka kate hudson ) and jenny portman ( aka joan cusack ) catch their underage niece audrey davis ( aka hayden panettiere ) on prom night . audrey’s room was number 205 .
in the 2004 teen comedy the girl next door , matthew kidman ( aka emile hirsch ) took danielle ( aka elisha cuthbert ) to the glen capri with the hopes of seducing her while there .
ironically enough , emile hirsch returned to the glen capri two years later to film a scene for the 2006 drama alpha dog . in the flick , the glen capri stood in for the albuquerque motel where johnny truelove and his girlfriend angela holden ( aka olivia wilde ) hid out after police had discovered the body of zack mazursky ( aka anton yelchin ) .
in 2007’s georgia rule , the glen capri stood in for the hull , ohio - area motel where arnold ( aka cary elwes ) stays while in town visiting his wife , lily ( aka felicity huffman ) , and his step - daughter , rachel wilcox ( aka lindsay lohan ) . in the movie , arnold stays in room 206 .
stalk it : glen capri inn & suites is located at 6700 san fernando road in glendale . you can visit the hotel’s official website here . the good girl was filmed in the main office and in room 8 ; raising helen also used the main office and room 205 ; and georgia rule was filmed in room 206 .
great post , i wondered where this motel was located . i loved the movie raising helen . the part of the movie that used the motel is my favorite . i loved when joan cusack aka aunt jenny busted down the door and told audrey aka hayden panettiere that “you have three seconds to get your things and get to the car now” , and audrey says “are you happy you just ruined my entire life” and aunt jenny says” well we’ll fix it later” . thanks again
so glad you love it ! ! ! i really didnt do anything though , it was all my girl jen ( as in my daughter , not aniston… . lol ) and her friend sheena . so i would like to thank them both for making it happen ! ! ! 🙂 and sheena can always bring more over to the states . i hear she makes the trip across the pond quite frequently . again , so glad you love it ! ! !
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in public enemy’s diatribe against a racially lagging hollywood , “burn hollywood burn , ” ice cube and big daddy kane joined chuck d in blasting the still - racist tendencies of mainstream studios and praising the efforts of spike lee , post - do the right thing . truth be told , however , kane and chuck provided the commentary on the entertainment industry ; cube’s brief verse , like much of his output around the early ' 90s , was focused on hating the police .
in spite of that , it was cube that joined the ranks of rappers - turned hollywood moguls ; nearly 20 years later , the former nwa member’s resume includes extensive writing , directing and acting experience , as well as the obligatory turns as producer . over the past few years , cube has focused on acting , concurrently running down the career paths of a kid’s movie mainstay ( are we there yet ? , are we done yet ? , the longshots , ) an action star ( xxx : state of the union , torque , ghosts of mars ) and an urban comedy star ( first sunday , all about the benjamins , the players club . )
this is cube’s sixth script , and all of the previous five have turned a profit . the initial friday film made nearly ten times its budget , finishing around $ 28 million off of a $ 3 . 5 million budget ; the first non - friday film cube wrote , the players club , made $ 23 million off of $ 5 million . friday after next , cube’s most recent writing project , pulled in $ 32 million , although the budget grew to $ 20 million .
looking at those numbers , films penned by ice cube would seem to be a sure thing ; however , friday after next came out way back in 2002 , and cube’s image has softened considerably since then . grown - up audiences may now associate him more with the longshots than friday .
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, was finally released - and it slipped right past us because the studio released it with a very limited theater run . the studio ,
, didn’t expect the very limited release and made very many moves to get it released theatrically so it wouldn’t go straight to the dvd shelves . as you may already know , the film had its release date moved at least three times - and that’s just the amount of times we know of .
. . . this movie opened in dallas tx on the october 16th at the dollar theater . . ! it was not necessarily a bad movie . . it just could have been called
friday once again : crag & day - day promote a concert . .
the humor mill magazine is a magazine that ' s about the urban comic & urban hollywood for the general audience . its for comedians / actors who are looking for that outlet to be seen , and its also about the under - served urban hollywood scene . the humor mill magazine features comedy , music and movie news , while we also discuss some important issues . we also feature comics who have been on the scene for a while but haven ' t quite become a household name yet . we also feature articles on hollywood actors who we see all the time but just don ' t know their name yet . all that , plus what ' s going down for the week in the latest issue , the humor mill covers it all as it keeps you in the know !
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reached the top 30 on this week ' s rental chart , including the three at the top .
it ' s the week before black friday , which is widely reported as the busiest shopping day of the year . ( it ' s not . christmas eve is the busiest shopping day of the year ; however , on christmas eve a lot of the purchases are last minute food items . ) if a studio wants its product to be part of black friday , this is the last tuesday they can release the dvd or blu - ray . because of this , i ' m a little surprised the week isn ' t busier than it is . the biggest release of the week is
that are also selling well . however , none of those come close to being the dvd pick of the week . arguably the best of the best is
remained on top of the per theater chart with an average of $ 25 , 711 . the film finally saw its per theater average drop this past weekend , but it should still have no trouble expanding . second place went to


a soldier 's daughter never cries is a 1998 drama film directed by james ivory and written by james ivory and ruth prawer jhabvala .

it stars kris kristofferson , barbara hershey , leelee sobieski and jesse bradford .

the film is a fictionalized account of the family life of writer james jones and is based on kaylie jones ' novel by the same name .

structured as a novel , the film is divided into three segments each named after a different protagonist .

the plot follows an expatriate american family living in paris during the 1960s and 1970s until their return and adjustment to life in new england , seen from the point of view of the daughter .

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actor / musician kris kristofferson and actress jane seymour at premiere of his film a soldier ' s daughter never cries .
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a soldier ' s daughter would cry if she was forced to watch this pointless film .
a soldier ' s daughter never cries is a fluidly acted and well - directed film about one family ' s capacity to adapt to changes with courage and grace .
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the cast of a soldier ' s daughter never cries , anthony roth costanzo , leelee sobieski , jesse bradford , kris kristofferson , and bob swaim ( left to right ) , attend the film ' s premiere .
the film’s strength lies in theme . again and again it reminds us how selfish behavior ( from telling white lies to consuming people under the guise of love ) destroys individuals—and how acts of selflessness grant wings . merchant ivory has found new flexibility in this different form of
period
location , resurfacing themes of estrangement and acceptance . a soldier’s daughter never cries . but a writer’s daughter cries all the time .
you can sense the love of a daughter for her parents in every frame of
a soldier ' s daughter never cries .
it ' s brought into the foreground only in a couple of scenes , but it courses beneath the whole film , an underground river of gratitude for parents who were difficult and flawed , but prepared their kids for almost anything .
you can sense the love of a daughter for her parents in every frame of ` ` a soldier ' s daughter never cries . ' ' it ' s brought into the foreground only in a couple of scenes , but it courses beneath the whole film , an underground river of gratitude for parents who were difficult and flawed , but prepared their kids for almost anything .
jerome flynn is hilarious as bronn , but in the ' 90s , he was part of a music duo with his costar from
soldier soldier .
comedian gemma whelan made her film debut in 2010 ' s
the wolfman
as a maid . now , she ' s yara greyjoy .
` ` a soldier ' s daughter never cries ' ' is not a textbook for every family . it is a story about this one . if a parent is remembered by his children only for what he did , then he spent too much time at work . what is better is to be valued for who you really were . if the parallels between this story and the growing up of kaylie jones are true ones , then james jones was not just a good writer but a good man .
poet , photographer , and artist black has written six poetry collections including “double time , ” a collection of double sestinas , and contributed to anthologies . jones is author of six novels , including anger meridian and a soldier’s daughter never cries , and the memoir lies my mother never told me . she also founded kaylie jones books , a publishing imprint dedicated to publishing writers who address serious societal issues . scarf merrell , a former journalist , has published nonfiction and two books of fiction , most recently shirley : a novel . she is also the director of the southampton summer writers conference .
natalie dormer made her film debut in 2005 ' s
casanova
before playing margaery tyrell .
a fluidly acted and well - directed film about one family ' s ability to adapt to changes with courage and grace .
the ballad of narayama
is a japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice , telling a story of startling cruelty . what a space it opens…
a soldier ' s daughter never cries is in three movements . the first is set in paris during the 1960s where american novelist bill willis ( kris kristofferson ) lives with his free - spirited wife marcella ( barbara hershey ) , their daughter channe ( luisa conlon ) , and her portuguese nanny candida ( dominique blanc ) . the family circle expands when they adopt six - year old benoit ( samuel gruen ) . having feared rejection , the little boy is so surprised by the love he receives that he chooses to take the name of his new father .
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game of thrones .
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known for playing jaime lannister , nikolaj coster - waldau ' s first movie was the 1994 danish film
nightwatch .
this is a film about family , not a dysfunctional family , but one that has love and laughter and the center is held together by the father . some of this film is true , and some of it is fictional . all in all the film is well told . if you have read kaylie jones book , ' lies my mother never told me ' , you know the rest of the story .
' a soldier ' s daughter never cries ' the title of the film and book by kaylie jones , was taken from a conversation that kaylie had with her father . he was a glorious man that kept the family together . kaylie and her father talked together all the time . he was her best friend in one sense . he advised her and was always right , it seemed . her relationship with her mother is not revealed in this film . they seemed to have a simplistic mother / daughter relationship which was far from the truth . the film opens in paris , where the family was living , while james joyce nee willis was writing and working . every night the parents would host a party and kaylie as channe in this film , would hide in a chair until she fell asleep . the adopted brother is not revealed well . he just simply appears when in reality this was discussed with the family - a little boy that had no home . the james family accepted him wholeheartedly as does the willis family . he had some difficulty in school because he was bored , and that is revealed very well . hidden in a closet because he would not do what the teacher asked . how barbaric is that . but , you must remember that this occurred in the 1960 ' s .
lena headey made her film debut in 1992 ' s
waterland
before she was ever cersei on
game of thrones .
jean kelley’s book , “dress like a million from goodwill” merges two of her greatest interests : fashion and making a difference .
actor / musician kris kristofferson and actress jane seymour at premiere of his film . . .
kaylie jones has written a recent biography ,
lies my mother never told me ' that was spectacular . her biography of her parents and her mother in particular , tell a different story of her childhood and her life with alcoholic parents . however , this film does justice to her father , james jones , known as bill willis in this film and played by kris kristofferson . her mother played by barbara hershey , gives a complete performance as a mother who drinks too much . however , this is not discussed nor is it supposed in this film .
one reason why books will always be coveted , no matter the form — print , audio or electronic — is readers can travel to places and into minds around the world different from their own . recently , two distinctly disparate women , kaylie jones and ree drummond , were in tulsa on the same mission : to sign copies of their recently published books . jones is the daughter of james jones , notorious author of “from here to eternity , ” et al . she must be sick of always living in his shadow ; after all , she has written five books . yet it’s difficult to introduce her without this foreknowledge . her latest book , “lies my mother never told me” ( william morrow , $ 25 . 99 ) , describes her tumultuous relationship with her mother . she wrote about her father , who died when she was 18 , in her second book , “a soldier’s daughter never cries . ”
the film opens with a portrait of the willises on the paris cocktail party circuit , but north carolina is a different story , with a big frame house and all the moods and customs of home . the kids hate it . they ' re called
frogs
at school . channe responds by starting to drink and becoming promiscuous , and billy vegetates in front of the tv set . two of the best scenes involve a talk between father and daughter about girls who are too loose , and another , after channe and a classmate really do fall in love , where bill asks them if they ' re having sex . when he gets his answer , he suggests , sincerely , that they use the girl ' s bedroom :
they ' re gonna do it anyway ; let them do it right .
a soldier ' s daughter never cries
is not a textbook for every family . it is a story about this one . if a parent is remembered by his children only for what he did , then he spent too much time at work . what is better is to be valued for who you really were . if the parallels between this story and the growing up of kaylie jones are true ones , then james jones was not just a good writer but a good man .
a tribute to the late tab hunter , a gay matinee idol and hollywood trailblazer .
tulsa foundation for architecture ' s monthly tour heads to the arts district for an insidersõ tour of cain ' s , a behind - the - scenes look at woody guthrie center , and a sneak peek at a new jazz club . . .
a boston feminist and a conservative southern lawyer contend for the heart and mind of a beautiful and bright girl unsure of her future .
whether you’ve seen it or not , it’s safe to say that everyone of a certain age will remember the essential plot of the 1987 film which starred michael douglas ( later , significantly , a “sex addict” ? ) and glenn close . dan gallagher , a thirtysomething lawyer , has a chance meeting with alex forrest , a sexy woman of roughly the same age : at a work - related party in the film , in a cunningly lit bar on stage . there is a night of mutually rewarding sexual activity after which he expects to return unscathed to his nice wife and daughter but which alex takes more seriously . she stalks him through physical presence and via incessant phone calls . the family life , the half of the cake he has wanted to keep having eaten the other half , is irretrievably disrupted .
70 - year - old jonathan pryce played the high sparrow on
game of thrones .
he began his career as a stage actor , but his breakthrough film role was in 1985 ' s
brazil .
one of iain glen ' s earliest roles before playing jorah mormont was in 1988 ' s
gorillas in the mist .
gwendoline christie is the powerful brienne of tarth , but she only made her film debut three years earlier as a shopper in
the imaginarium of doctor parnassus .
set in 1930s shanghai , where a blind american diplomat develops a curious relationship with a young russian refugee who works odd - - and sometimes illicit - - jobs to support members of her dead husband ' s aristocratic family .
the overarching plot line is simple : the children become teenagers , the father ' s health causes concerns , the family eventually decides to move back home to north carolina . the film ' s appeal is in the details . it re - creates a childhood of wonderfully strange friends , eccentric visitors , a paris that was more home for the children than for the parents and a homecoming that was fraught for them all . the willises are like a family sailing in a small boat from one comfortable but uncertain port to another .
we may know him as tyrion lannister , but peter dinklage ' s breakout role was in 2003 ' s
the station agent .
the plot has been updated to the present and the insidious intrusiveness of mobile phones gives another element of tension and terror to alex’s relentless stalking . but i’m aware that in referring to “alex’s stalking , ” i’m eliding the play’s subtler distribution of sympathies as compared with the film’s . the latter settled for a ruthless endorsement of the cosy middle - class family unit and the death of alex at the hands of both dan and his picture - perfect wife beth .
charles dance may be known for his villainous role as tywin lannister , but the actor ' s first film role was as the villain in the james bond movie
for your eyes only .
the city of lights . a famous american author and the decade that changed a generation . . . forever .
thomas brodie - sangster made his feature film debut in
love actually
and is known for his former role as jojen reed .
using a flower metaphor , erma bombeck once wrote :
friends are annuals that need seasonal nurturing to bear flowers . family is a perennial that comes up year after year . there is a place in the garden for each .
there is a place for each of them in this beguiling film directed by james ivory who , along with ruth prawer jhabvala , has adapted it for the screen from kaylie jones ' s 1990 autobiographical novel .
jason momoa ' s first role ever was on
baywatch : hawaii .
now , he ' s known for his former role as khal drogo .
whereas from here to eternity has been transformed into a full - scale musical , the theatrical version of the full monty seems almost to need musical numbers , but has to wait till the very end to get one – and then it won’t be the main focus of the audience’s attention . as a modestly budgeted film , it did amazing business at the time , and was one of a number of british realist dramas and comedies – and comedy - dramas – that set a lot of youthful careers in motion . one of the chief among these was that of writer simon beaufoy , who has now adapted his screenplay into a stage play . in interview , he claimed , “it never occurred to me to turn it into a play till many years later . when i did , i sat down and realised it’s very play - like , in the sense that there’s a lot of people sitting in one place , going nowhere , literally and metaphorically , with nothing else to do except examine their lives . ” and that constitutes something of a problem . i don’t remember the film in that kind of detail but “people sitting in one place” and talking can on film be made dynamic through the agency of editing and camera placement . on stage it runs the risk , not altogether avoided here , of seeming static .
to be released during this coming christmas season . ) the film’s first segment ,
billy ,
begins when the 6 - year - old french boy is embraced by channe’s family—much to her chagrin . he keeps his suitcase packed in case he’s sent to another orphanage . we know little about his parents’ whereabouts , but the opening scenes lend clues . the camera pans a desolate seascape where a wary , young mother - to - be keeps watch and scribbles in her grid - lined diary .
july 7 - 15 : expect new documentaries and features , silent classics , special guests , discussions with filmmakers , a reel - to - reel 35mm screening and much more at circle cinema film festival .
tulsa ' s story telling competition - ok , so . . . story slam
basically the story of a man forced to finally see the injustice around him . riley’s movie is designed to do the same thing to you . …
the production at the noël coward theatre , directed by daniel evans , has the initial advantage of a brilliant set by robert jones , depicting what appears to be a deserted factory floor , introducing the play’s central concern with unemployment and its personal and social repercussions in the years of margaret thatcher’s incumbency . it opens with a comic attempt by two of the unemployed workers – gaz and dave – to do something illegal with a steel girder , but there’s a sharper moment that encapsulates the work situation , involving the hiring out of a tie for chaps lucky enough to get called for a job interview . but despite the imaginative effectiveness of the set as a single entity , the play misses the glimpses of homes and pubs and streets – of that outside world and how the economic downturn affects it .
the emotional twists and turns these two couples engage in constitute the main personal narrative , which of course is always being played out against the onset of the cataclysmic events on that critical date . these pairs are more than adequately played by rebecca thornhill ( karen ) and david stoller ( understudy as warden at the performance i saw ) , and siubhan harrison ( lorene ) and robert lonsdale ( prewitt ) . in fact , harrison’s lorene seemed much more credible to me than oscar - winning donna reed’s in the film : i could never accept that nice farm girl from iowa as a lady of very easy virtue .
an aging silent movie comic star tries for a comeback by staging a wild party that turns into a sexual free - for - all . the comic ends up killing his mistress and her latest boyfriend .
should be commended for skimming erotic scenes ( which so often become an excuse to titillate the audience ) and focusing on the primary issue—how her liberal father shares a healthier view of sex as something precious , never wasted . their frank conversations are courageous and compassionate—qualities often neglected in contemporary cinema .
these reservations aside , fatal attraction emerges as a powerful study of relationships , whether those complacently accepted or those remorselessly driven by the need for gratification , sexual or other . it is dextrously staged and performed with real passion and intelligence by natascha mcelhone ( alex ) , mark bazeley ( dan ) and kristin davis ( beth ) , not to forget the brilliant little girl ( holly barrett was the one i saw ) who plays dan’s daughter , ellen , witness to scenes of marital ferocity that should be no part of a child’s experience .
in the second act , channe ( leelee sobieski ) becomes best friends with francis ( anthony roth costanzo ) , a flamboyantly gay youth with a passion for opera . he helps her test her wings as a nonconformist . that is , after all , part of her bohemian family ' s legacy .
conleth hill may be bald as varys but the actor sported a headful of brown hair on the ' 90s british sitcom
blue heaven .
he does still have a full head of hair — it ' s just white .
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the film opens with a portrait of the willises on the paris cocktail party circuit , but north carolina is a different story , with a big frame house and all the moods and customs of home . the kids hate it . they ' re called ` ` frogs ' ' at school . channe responds by starting to drink and becoming promiscuous , and billy vegetates in front of the tv set . two of the best scenes involve a talk between father and daughter about girls who are too loose , and another , after channe and a classmate really do fall in love , where bill asks them if they ' re having sex . when he gets his answer , he suggests , sincerely , that they use the girl ' s bedroom : ` ` they ' re gonna do it anyway ; let them do it right . ' '
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the gay bar episode is a reminder of how much freer the stage is now in matters sexual than a 1950s film could be . the play is full of homophobic taunts of “queer” and maggio “rolls queers” for cash . as well , if the lancaster - kerr beach scene seemed sexy in the film , rice’s version is able to be much more explicit about what’s going on between them and between the g company men and mrs kipfer’s girls . this is no doubt more realistic in terms of the period and place in which it is all set , but it is at least arguable that being more explicit is no guarantee of achieving formidable erotic tension . all sorts of tension are of course finally subsumed in the devastating attack , which is brilliantly staged and lifts the whole production to another level .
it is she we now pity – and not at the expense of overlooking her feral tenacity – and dan , likable but indubitably weak , has to make do with a far - from - certain future with beth and their daughter . a very appreciative audience shouted approving boos ( sorry if that sounds like an oxymoron ) at dan’s curtain - call appearance at the theatre royal , haymarket . for all i know , this had been carefully orchestrated , but it resonated with dearden’s wish to reallocate sympathies in ways commerce - dominated hollywood had refused to allow twenty - five years earlier .
oklahoma ' s own musical ambassador , kyle dillingham and his band horseshoe road will be performing at the historic spotlight theatre in tulsa . enjoy a high energy uplifting . . .
the last and best act is set in new england during the 1970s as the family ' s solidarity is threatened by bill ' s heart condition , marcella ' s alcoholism , and the struggles of channe and billy ( jesse bradford ) to adapt to american high school . knowing that his days are numbered , bill exhibits moments of exquisite tenderness toward those he loves most . a diary from billy ' s birth mother plays an important role in bringing channe and billy closer together .
adaptation in one form or other has long been established practice in the arts , perhaps most endemically in the huge reliance of film - makers on works first created in other media , mainly literary but also stage and television ; but the sudden efflorescence of titles once famous as films and now to be seen on the marquees of london theatres feels like something new . just consider this list of what’s on or about to open : billy elliott , the bodyguard , from here to eternity , charlie and the chocolate factory , the 39 steps , twelve angry men , the full monty , made in dagenham , dirty rotten scoundrels and fatal attraction . certainly some of those also have roots in other art forms , such as novels , but it’s probably no exaggeration to say that the titles are best - known for their film incarnations . several , like the first four named , have morphed into musicals . the long - running stage version of the 39 steps owes its origins to the three film versions , most notably of course the 1936 hitchcock thriller , and they in turn played fast and loose ( and for the better ) with john buchan’s novel . and who now can tell how much of the drury lane success charlie and the chocolate factory , nearing the end of its first year , derives from roald dahl’s much - loved children’s classic and how much from the two film versions , of 1971 and 2005 . well , i guess there’s no proof that a mixed heritage has to be a mixed blessing .
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) and her fey friend ( incredible newcomer anthony roth costanzo—yes , that’s his voice warbling mozart’s arias ) who vows to
live a life of art .
director james ivory admits he based some of francis’ dramatic flair on his boyhood self . ( it was ivory who announced to his classmates he must leave early , lest he miss his mother’s dinner party . ) the unlikely pair attend avant garde performances of salomé and reenact melodramas during shrill slumber parties . together they create a self - imposed exile of fantasy until channe’s ailing father decides to seek medical treatment in the united states .
this fictionalized story , based on the family life of writer james jones , is an emotionless slice - of - life story . jones here is portrayed as bill willis , a former war hero and now successful author who obviously drinks too much and is starting to experience health problems . living in france with his wife , daughter , and an adopted son , the family travels an unconventional road that leaves all of them as outsiders to others . preaching a sexual freedom , his daughter ' s sexual acceptance begins at an early age and betrays her when the family moves to hanover in america . her sexuality is definitely not the normal for american teens and gives her a bad reputation and outcasts her . meanwhile her brooding brother struggles with his own inner turmoils about his early desertion in life . only within the tight knit confines of his family is he comfortable to even speak .
there is much more sense in the play of dan’s weakness in his readiness to slip into glib utterance ( “it was fate” ; “it was an accident waiting to happen” ) and of the innate and blinkered tediousness of beth’s idealised aspirations ( the house in the country , etc . ) . above all , there is a much more powerful awareness of alex’s lonely neediness . the feminist outrage that the original apparently provoked has a good deal less to feed on in the stage version . this is made abundantly clear in the play’s ending : the last image is of alex , standing in a half - circle of orange light and dripping blood as she dies by her own hand .
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there are some good lines along the way and the audience fell on these , but the northern accents ( and most of the cast were allegedly northerners ) made some of the dialogue difficult to pick up by uninitiated ears . there is certainly some sense of the camaraderie among the unemployed ; there is the odd crisis - of - masculinity moment , such as when gaz weeps before his wife ; there is a pervasive good humour about it all , but… it just misses being important in the way the film was . this may be a result of the changing times or it may be that it misses the intimacy the film used to pinpoint the seriousness . it’s fun , but not much else .
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alfie allen plays theon greyjoy , but he first made his debut in 1998 with a tv movie comedy
you are here
and a brief appearance in
elizabeth .
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the movie was directed by james ivory and produced by ismail merchant , from a screenplay by their longtime collaborator , the novelist ruth prawer jhabvala . she also knows about living in other people ' s countries , and indeed many of ivory ' s films have been about expatriates and exiles ( most recently another american in france , in
jefferson in paris
) . there is a delight in the way they introduce new characters and weave them into the family ' s bohemian existence . this is one of their best films .
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the children have their own troubles , trying to navigate the integrated school system . billy withdraws because he can’t speak english and his teacher locks him in the coat closet . after changing his name from benoit , he begins a self - transformation that won’t culminate until he finally reads his birth mother’s writing . channe shows a yearning for peer approval that conflicts with her burgeoning autonomy . being female eventually requires a compromise of independence . when she investigates a neighbor boy’s tree house , the little satyr tells her to take off her shirt . then he’ll let his pet snails slide around her bare chest .
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the movie was directed by james ivory and produced by ismail merchant , from a screenplay by their longtime collaborator , the novelist ruth prawer jhabvala . she also knows about living in other people ' s countries , and indeed many of ivory ' s films have been about expatriates and exiles ( most recently another american in france , in ` ` jefferson in paris ' ' ) . there is a delight in the way they introduce new characters and weave them into the family ' s bohemian existence . this is one of their best films .
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jacob anderson is known for his portrayal of the brilliant warrior grey worm , but he ' s been acting since 2004 .
when this line - up finally takes the stage and tosses garments into the stalls , the lights are tastefully lowered but the spectacle still won a near - hysterical reception from the audience . the theatre audience , made up it seemed largely of middle - aged women , threw themselves into applauding as if they were the club audience , indulging in a happy clap - along . however , for all this enthusiastic response , the play still seemed to miss out on the real pain and underlying seriousness of the film , and given that beaufoy wrote both , it doesn’t seem too unfair to make such a comparison . there is some real emotional power in kenny doughty’s depiction of gaz , prepared to do anything legal to get the funds he needs to go on seeing his son , but whereas the film seemed like a heartfelt commentary on the way the times were screwing these men the play always seems to be puttering along to the final feel - good moment .
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films derived from plays can sometimes seem stagy talk - fests or they can “open out” in what appear obvious ways . the reverse adaptation process may sometimes suffer from an over - strenuous attempt to emulate film’s obvious mobility in time and place . but each form is capable of achieving its own rewards . i don’t think any of the three works highlighted here is a model of film - to - theatre transition , but nothing is going to stop producers from trying . at the time of writing , the latest to be announced is shakespeare in love , due to open in july . for all i know , someone is already planning to bring pirates of the caribbean to drury lane .
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channe and young billy are played as teenagers by leelee sobieski and jesse bradford . we learn some of the circumstances of billy ' s adoption , and there is a journal , kept by his mother at the age of 15 , which he eventually has to decide whether to read . he has some anger and resentment , which his parents handle tactfully ; apart from anything else , the film is useful in the way it deals with the challenge of adoption .
channe and young billy are played as teenagers by leelee sobieski and jesse bradford . we learn some of the circumstances of billy ' s adoption , and there is a journal , kept by his mother at the age of 15 , which he eventually has to decide whether to read . he has some anger and resentment , which his parents handle tactfully ; apart from anything else , the film is useful in the way it deals with the challenge of adoption .
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some of the love songs given to these couples , such as “love me forever today” ( prewitt and lorene ) or karen’s solo “maybe , ” have an apt enough flavour of poignant longing and uncertainty . they evoke the period quite resonantly while perversely enough also sounding a little old - fashioned . on the whole , it is the big company numbers that come off best . there’s impressive vigour in the choreography of the early “thirty year man” and “fight the fight , ” and in act 2’s “something in return , ” which foregrounds the stars but draws its strength from the ensemble . and the scenes in mrs kipfer’s brothel or in the gay bar have a vivacity that’s nearly enough to lift the show , but it is really only in the final minutes of the aerial bombardment that it takes off in the way we keep hoping it will .
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the family moved to the united states when the first signs of heart failure started to show in bill willis . he was admitted to the hospital several times , and he eventually died . but , the relationship that bill willis had with his children was extraordinary . as you can tell in the film , when he died , he family fell apart . he was this family ' s world and this film conveys that feeling well . kris kristofferson plays the role with humility and love . his love for his wife and his children is very apparent . he understands that the family revolves around his life , the writing life , and he tried very hard to give them a life that was full and rewarding .
a man marries an heiress for her money even though he is actually in love with her friend .
a little princess
and
game of thrones .
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this is definitely on the best movie ' s i have ever seen ! the entire cast is just amazing esp . jessie bradford .
leelee sobieski as channe and anthony roth costanzo as channe ' s fey friend . ( ©1998 october films . all rights reserved . )
in the event , the spacious set is used essentially , and less imaginatively , for people to gather in to talk throughout the first act . gaz , estranged from his wife and desperate to maintain connection with his son , hits on the idea of a lucrative male striptease for a women’s night out in a club . the factory floor then becomes the site for interviewing possible participants , the act cunningly building to what was also the film’s punch line , when one of those auditioned , guy , reveals his major , possibly his only , asset : “the lunchbox has landed , ” is gaz’s shrewd assessment of this potential , and the curtain comes down . the second act involves the rehearsal of the unlikely line - up for the big night as they go about the business of stepping and stripping in time . rehearsals are interrupted by the visits of several disaffected wives , and by the growth of a gay relationship between the lunchbox and one of the other strippers , with everything leading to the finale , inspired by a recent visit from the chippendale troupe who’d wooed the ladies successfully but without going “the full monty , ” which is what our chaps are proposing .
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twenty - eight - year - old kansas university doctoral student omar razaghi wins a grant to write a biography of latin american writer jules gund . omar must get through to three people who were . . . see full summary »
the 65 - year - old anton lesser is known as qyburn on
game of thrones ,
but the actor has been a member of the royal shakespeare company and was in a number of tv movies starting in 1979 .
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this one - day dodge ball tournament allows teams to play for a charity or non - profit of their choice .
the khalid jabara memorial library presents this monthly series that presents big concepts in way that are enderstandable to children . this month ' s topic is differences .
oklahoma ' s larges celebration of anime , manga , and japanese pop culture returns to cox business center with the theme worlds collide : ninjas vs cowboys .
there is a very robust overture from the orchestra , followed by an announcement of the date – 7 december 1941 – and the sound of an explosion , as the curtain rises on the diminutive private maggio strumming a guitar and two women standing against a ship’s railing . these two we will later identify as karen , dissatisfied wife of captain dana holmes of g company , and lorene , a prostitute who works for mrs kipfer’s establishment , whose clientele is drawn largely from said g company . one who will make his way there is private robert e . lee prewitt , boxer and bugler who has given up boxing and bugling , who will fall for lorene ( for some reason i’ve always remembered her telling him that her real name was alma but mrs kipfer had rechristened her lorene when she “saw it in a perfume ad” ) . lorene is pining and planning for respectability and marriage ; karen has had enough of marriage and not enough of sex and , in the interests of getting more of the latter attracts the advances of sgt milt warden , in her husband’s company .
opening to the public on thursday , nov . 16 , the 110th anniversary of oklahoma statehood , “the art of oklahoma” celebrates the museum’s outstanding and . . .
diana rigg is iconic as lady olenna tyrell , but the actress has been in the industry since the ' 60s , well - known for her role on the spy series
the avengers ,
and was even a bond girl in
on her majesty ' s secret service .
where are the modern playwrights of distinction ? it’s hard to resist wondering this on running one’s eyes down the list of what’s on offer in london theatre this year . where are the contemporary equivalents of john osborne or harold pinter ? the big popular musicals – the lion king , the phantom of the opera , les misérables , to name a few – are still pulling crowds ; and there are notable revivals of a taste of honey and ghosts , as well as two noël coward resurrections , blithe spirit ( starring 88 - year - old angela lansbury no less ) and relative values . but the most striking phenomenon at the moment is the extraordinary number of plays , musical and otherwise , derived from and / or related to popular films .
the last act ,
daddy ,
takes place on the east coast during the 1970s . channe still feels a misfit around the loud - talking american kids . in parked cars , she gives herself to boys in a misguided strain for acceptance .
roger ebert ' s speech on empathy for the
11th hour
series on april 9th , 1994 , being republished here in honor of his birthday june 18 .
told through chapters , the story reads like prose . every scene must hold meaning . dialogue , uttered so sparingly , develops greater significance . classic foreign films usually work this clever , delivering information through action and observation , not talky exposition . the point of view revolves around channe , the novelist’s alter - ego , and her relationships with male figures—especially her father , bill willis ( played by a gravely - voiced kris kristofferson ) , an acclaimed writer who pens tough - talking paperbacks about his world war ii battles . kaylie’s father , james jones , serves as this character’s model . ( two movies have been scripted from his works—
a look back at robert zemeckis ' half - animated classic , who framed roger rabbit , on its 30 - year anniversary .
the movie is told through the eyes of channe , a girl whose father is a famous american novelist . in the 1960s , the family lives in paris , on the ile st . louis in the seine . bill willis ( kris kristofferson ) and his wife , marcella ( barbara hershey ) , move in expatriate circles (
we ' re euro - trash
) , and the kids go to a school where the students come from wildly different backgrounds . at home , dad writes , but doesn ' t tyrannize the family with the importance of his work , which he treats as a job (
typing is the one thing i learned in high school of any use to me
) . there is a younger brother , billy , who was adopted under quasi - legal circumstances , and a nanny , candida , who turns down a marriage proposal to stay with the family .
seems unlike their earlier epics . set in the 1960s and ' 70s , it centers on an expatriate american family living in paris . despite the semi - contemporary location , the film retains their familiar focus on feelings of societal isolation . adapted from kaylie jones’ autobiographical 1990 novel , strong in characterization , it offers the family as a refreshingly healthy archetype of human interaction—rather than the overwrought clichés of the catch - phrase
dysfunctional .
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the movie is told through the eyes of channe , a girl whose father is a famous american novelist . in the 1960s , the family lives in paris , on the ile st . louis in the seine . bill willis ( kris kristofferson ) and his wife , marcella ( barbara hershey ) , move in expatriate circles ( ` ` we ' re euro - trash ' ' ) , and the kids go to a school where the students come from wildly different backgrounds . at home , dad writes , but doesn ' t tyrannize the family with the importance of his work , which he treats as a job ( ` ` typing is the one thing i learned in high school of any use to me ' ' ) . there is a younger brother , billy , who was adopted under quasi - legal circumstances , and a nanny , candida , who turns down a marriage proposal to stay with the family .
french vs . american social customs and behaviors are observed in a story about an american visiting her frenchman - wed sister in paris .
woody guthrie ' s annual birthday party in his hometown will feature performances by john fullbright , jason mraz , willias alan ramsey , carter sampson , annie guthrie , and more .
the work of renowned artist christopher curtis will be featured at tulsa botanic garden’s first sculpture exhibit march 17 through august 26 . curtis works primarily in stone and he often . . .
crossing borders are central consuelo j . underwood’s artistic practice . in this exhibition inspired by land , politics , and spirit , underwood speaks to her individual understanding of borders . . .
i need to get a couple of niggles out of the way . first , the noise level : both the non - specific explosion - type bursts of sound and the thematically apt excerpts from madame butterfly were needlessly damaging to the eardrums . it was as if they were meant to match sonically the visual intensity of the staging . as to the latter , this is often brilliant as one setting slides with almost cinematic fluency among bars , parks , offices and homes , but even then there is an unrewarding stridency about the long strips of violently purple lighting that divide the stage . on another level , dan’s recurring address to the audience as he reflects increasingly wildly on his dilemma seems unnecessary . most of the play is told in what would be called “flashback” if this were a film , with dan talking to his affable divorced friend jim about his grim situation . this being so , we don’t need dan’s explicit comments to us : we’ve seen it happen and we’ve heard dan talking to jim .
rory mccann plays a foreboding sandor
the hound
clegane , but his first major role was in the comedy
the book group .
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in lizzie , the trial of lizzie bordenñwho was the main suspect in the 1892 axe - murder of her parentsñis set to a scorching rock score .
jones lives in new york city . she grew up in paris and sagaponack , n . y . , among writers and celebrities . she teaches writing at the university of southampton on long island , has earned a black belt in tae kwon do , speaks several languages fluently and is urbanely charming in looks and speech . she mingled and signed books in the home of chloe and trent baulch oct . 6 . this came about because a close friend of the baulches is oklahoma citian lyn holmes , who met jones at a birthday party in paris . there , along with another oklahoma citian , judy denwalt , they hatched the plan for jones to add okc to her book tour . holmes and denwalt encouraged baulch to host a reception in tulsa so jones could maximize her oklahoma visit . some 50 guests , including local headliners such as peggy helmerich and michael wallis , sipped wine , nibbled on hors d’oeuvres and purchased books . “lies my mother never told me” overflows with stories about growing up amid literary giants such as william stryon , irwin shaw , truman capote , norman mailer and kurt vonnegut . beyond the ultimate gossip story , jones’ book admonishes the sins of alcoholism , including her own , and delves into navigating life with a choleric mother .