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Get Shorty Information
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Get Shorty is a novel by American novelist Elmore Leonard, first published in 1990, and a movie adaptation of the same name, released in...


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Get Shorty is a 1995 about Chili Palmer, a small-time loanshark from Miami, who is sent to claim an unpaid loan but then moves into the movie bsuiness. Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld . Written by Scott Frank , based on the novel by Elmore Leonard ....


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05/01/2006: 1,478 words, approx. 5 pages
Height-challenged Ronni Radner uncovers an antishort bias among gay males-and a weekly club night that celebrates the beauty of short people. I've always been a Me on the short side. Throughout elementary school and junior high I was picked dose to last for...
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National Catholic Reporter
Get Shorty. (movie) (movie reviews)
11/10/1995: 783 words, approx. 3 pages
"Get Shorty" (MGM) is as funny as it is fast, an unsettling fact for those convinced that spending two hours with minor gangsters and confidence men can never be entertaining. This is the first movie that has (mostly) succeeded in capturing the tone...
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The New York Observer
Welcome Back, Palmer: Travolta Returns in Be Cool
3/6/2005: 2,212 words, approx. 7 pages
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 directors (F. Gary Gray for Barry Sonnenfeld), screenwriters (Peter Steinfeld for...
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The New York Observer
Chita: Rivera Takes Tiny Stage
3/6/2005: 2,046 words, approx. 7 pages
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, all rolled into one star-spangled center spot with a diamond-studded...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Nora Ephron (review of 29 July 1990)
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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.
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Critical Review by Linda Stewart
765 words, approx. 3 pages
In the following review, Stewart praises Get Shorty.
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Critical Review by Charles Champlin
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In the following review, Champlin offers a favorable assessment of Get Shorty.


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