Julie Hagerty Tagged Articles at Cinematical
John Lithgow and More Join 'Shopaholic'
Filed under: Comedy », Romance », Casting »
Okay, I don't get it. So we've got this adaptation of one of Sophie Kinsella's books coming to the big screen, Confessions of a Shopaholic. Isla Fisher stars as Rebecca, this college grad who gets a sweet gig as a financial journalist in Manhattan, but struggles with an immense shopping addiction that makes her bills increase well beyond what she can afford. And at some point in all of this, she falls in love with a successful entrepreneur, and also throws on a tacky outfit that rivals the horrors that Carrie Bradshaw has in her closet.Is this whole "financial journalist" title just some sort of catchy job description? Who hires a spastic shopaholic as a financial journalist? Well, according to The Hollywood Reporter, it looks like it is one of the following -- John Lithgow, Kristin Scott Thomas, Leslie Bibb, Lynn Redgrave, and Julie Hagerty. Okay... It's probably not Bibb, who is a fashion magazine staffer, nor Hagerty, who plays a business magazine assistant. However, it could be Lithgow's publishing magnate, Thomas' magazine editor, or Redgrave's "doyenne of a publishing empire."
So far, this sounds more like a fantasy than any sort of realistic romcom, not to say that romantic comedies are usually realistic. I just wish we could have less "women are terrible with money" crap. I know I'm not the only one who doesn't shop myself into debt, or keep credit card balances with sadistic interest rates.
Review: Scary Movie 4 -- Rob's Take
Filed under: Comedy », New Releases », New in Theaters », The Weinstein Co. », Remakes and Sequels »
A good parody is hard to spin beyond the here and now. Take "Weird Al" Yankovic, for example. The pop-music jokester has put out 11 regular albums since 1983, when the accordian-playing nice guy's spoof of The Knack's "My Sharona" (titled "My Bologna" and recorded in the men's room of his college radio station) started his career as a musician, comedic icon and food fetishist when it blew up on The Dr. Demento Show. However, every hilarious and unforgettable cut like "Eat It", "Like A Surgeon" and "Smells Like Nirvana" that hit was matched by fade-away tracks like the New Kids jape "The White Stuff" (an ode to Oreos), the Rocky III goof "Theme From Rocky XIII (The Rye Or The Kaiser)" or the misjudgment "Taco Grande" (a riff on Latin rough-boy Gerardo's only hit, "Rico Suave"). The secret to a successful parody is complex, involving a careful balance of picking a song that is big enough, worthy of a good-natured dressing down and most important, funny. The same is true with movies, and the latest in the popular Scary Movie series is a great example of what can go right and wrong with such an attempt.
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