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Failed School
In Allapattah, kids threaten teachers, and bosses look the other way.
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A Felony with That Croqueta?
Criminals are everywhere at the nation's best-known Cuban eatery.
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Lambs to Slaughter
Miami's Catholic leaders covered for a priest who drugged and sodomized at least a dozen boys.
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Puff, Puff, Class
We’re hitting the hookah at the Ritz-Carlton.
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Cuban Ballet in Exile
Some of the world's best dancers hang out at Costco, then perform Swan Lake.
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Failed School (99)
In Allapattah, kids threaten teachers, and bosses look the other way.
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Shirley Q. Liquor's Racist Scum (24)
Ban ugliness from Miami Beach.
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A Pregnant Pause (12)
Drink heavily and don't worry. That baby will be fine.
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Lambs to Slaughter (8)
Miami's Catholic leaders covered for a priest who drugged and sodomized at least a dozen boys.
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Carbonell Cold Shoulder (8)
We're all losers at South Florida's biggest awards show.
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Jay McCarroll Wins Again
Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Fest reels in the Project Runway winner.
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Sad Sack Extraordinaire
Jason Segel uses his balls to great effect in Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
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Let's Go to Prison
Harold and Kumar get shipped to Gitmo in this forced act two.
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Cop Out
Boys will be boys in Street Kings' shallow look at dirty police.
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Recent Articles By Robert Wilonsky
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Here Comes the Bride. Yawn.
McDreamy tries to win over his engaged gal pal in My Best Friend's Made of Honor Wedding.
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Let's Go to Prison
Harold and Kumar get shipped to Gitmo in this forced act two.
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Nobody's Baby
Neither Tina Fey nor Amy Poehler seems the least bit invested in their surrogate mommy comedy.
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Sad Sack Extraordinaire
Jason Segel uses his balls to great effect in Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
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Ordinary People
Intelligence goes soft in this more obvious than smart rom-com.
National Features
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Broward-Palm Beach New Times
Last Step to Redemption
Drug counselor Richard Entrekin swam a little too easily in a sea of sharks.
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Village Voice
The Cro-Mag Diaries
Remembering the brutal life and times of John "Bloodclot" Joseph, New York hardcore icon.
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Seattle Weekly
Being Gary Busey
Everybody thinks Jeff Swanson is somebody famous. And he does nothing to dissuade them of the notion.
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SF Weekly
Party Crashers
If you think Ralph Nader won't screw the Democrats again, you're not paying attention.
By John Geluardi
Details:
Subject(s): Colin Firth, Matthew Broderick, Helen Hunt, Then She Found Me , Bette Midler
First-time writer-director Helen Hunt stars as April Epner, a schoolteacher desperate to have a child before she turns 40 (Hunt herself turns 45 this year, but never mind that). Adapted by Hunt and two other writers from Elinor Lipman's novel, it's a not surprisingly confident debut; Hunt directs like she acts — straightforward and without humor, even when she's meant to be funny. Which is probably why this plays like such an odd hybrid: a sitcom pilot rendered as Lifetime melodrama and starring the likes of Matthew Broderick (as her husband and, no kidding, an irresistible man-child), Colin Firth (as the single-dad love interest), and Bette Midler (as the famous mother who gave Hunt's character up for adoption when she was a year old). Broderick is broad, doughy, and dopey — not at all believable as The Guy Everyone Wants to Fuck. But Firth is terrific, and Midler is, well, Midler — you keep expecting her to break into song. Even if you didn't know who directed going in, you'd know coming out; Hunt gives herself more closeups than Norma Desmond (and Barbra Streisand — no small feat). In short, it's the kind of film that only a mother, which is to say my mother, would love.
