In the following review, Champlin offers a favorable assessment of Get Shorty.
Long before he earned his present eminence for his swift and sharp-tongued contemporary mysteries, Elmore Leonard knew...
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Ephron is a novelist and screenwriter whose works include When Harry Met Sally and Heartburn. In the following review, she commends Get Shorty.
I am an Elmore Leonard fan. I tell you this primarily...
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In the following review, Stewart praises Get Shorty.
If writing well is the best revenge, Elmore Leonard just merrily evened a lot of scores. Get Shorty gets Hollywood right where it lives and the ...
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Be Cool can be considered a sequel to Get Shorty (1995), even though 10 years have passed since the adaptation of that earlier Elmore Leonard novel.In the meantime, there have been changes in the d...
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Chita!Like Madonna, Marlene or Liza, one name says it all. And there is room for only one. She shines. She sparkles. She glows. She lights up a room. Singer, dancer, actress, chorus girl and star, ...
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The cameras get turned on Michael Moore for a change at the South by Southwest film festival, where the documentary "Manufacturing Dissent" will have its world premiere.The film from directors Rick...
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After the Academy Awards, Hollywood usually takes a little hiatus until summer, when the studios roll out a weekly parade of stadium-fillers. But in recent years, it's become difficult to pinpoint ...
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Not long after "The Sopranos" began airing, James Gandolfini remembers someone banging on the door of his Manhattan apartment late at night."So I opened the door and the guy just turns white," Gand...
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What took VH-1 so long to invite you to do Diva's Live? I have no idea, It's been like four years. And when they put me on, I'm on there with 15 people and a man. But it's one of those things, ...
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Over the past week and a half, hundreds of filmmakers and actors have descended upon downtown New York City for the sixth annual Tribeca Film Festival.Among those who left memorable impressions wer...
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Critical Review by Charles Champlin
Welcome Back, Palmer: Travolta Returns in Be Cool
