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Movie Blog Post: THE HERO
Tinsel & Tine’s Look at THE HERO By Le Anne Lindsay, Editor THE HERO was written especially for 72 year-old Sam Elliott by Brett Haley & Marc Basch, who also wrote the movie starring Blyth Danner (Gwyneth Paltrow’s mom) I’ll See You in my Dreams which I saw in 2015 and liked, but never got around to writing a post. Elliott has a small part as Danner’s lover in that movie and working with the actor inspired this movie The Hero, in which Elliott plays an aging actor, named Lee Hayden who is coming to terms with his mortality and a career as a typecast cowboy. His marriage is long sense…
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Movie Blog Post: FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS
DELUSIONS OF GRANDEURFLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS By Tinsel & Tine Editor, Le Anne Lindsay Not dissimilar to her role as Julia Child in Julie & Julia (click for T&T post) the magnificent Meryl Streep straps on the pounds and falsetto voice to play another eccentric matron with a devoted husband. An once again, I loved it! There’s just no denying the fact that Streep is every bit as good as the credit she’s always given. Streep in the eponymous role of Florence Foster Jenkins opens the film as a very full bodied angel of inspiration being hoisted above a piano on ropes held by straining stage hands. She’s performing for an…
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Will You Stop Eating Cupcakes! – THIS IS 40
by Le Anne Lindsay, Editor If I had realized the characters in Judd Apatow’s This Is 40, were the same couple from Knocked Up, I would not have gone to see this movie. I hated Alison’s (Katherine Heigl’s) annoying, abrasive, argumentative sister and brother-in-law. My amnesia is not surprising considering Knocked Up is on my list of “never need to see again movies” – just did not see the funny. I did however, really like the trailer for This Is 40, and not only did the trailer do the movie justice – for a change, there are heaps more funny scenes and lines than the trailer shows! Most importantly, Debbie…