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Donna (Meryl Streep, 59), an American who runs a little hotel on a remote Greek island, has invited two old friends, Tanya (Christine Baranski, 56) and Rosie (Julie Walters, 58), to join her for the wedding of her daughter Sophie (Amanda Seyfried, who is, all right, 22). Sophie, who doesn't know who her father is, has found Donna's diary from the summer she got pregnant. Her dad must be one of the three men mentioned in the diary. Sophie lures them all to the island--Sam (Pierce Brosnan, 55), Bill (Stellan Skarsgard, 57) and Harry (Colin Firth...
...movie beats down even the most stalwart viewer's resistance, in a Guantánamo of giddiness. The supporting actresses help out. Baranski, slim and large-mouthed, and Walters, wizened and hiding behind shades, might be Mick and Keith in a Rolling Stones girl tribute band, and they lend all their show-biz savvy to vivid renditions of, respectively, Does Your Mother Know and Take a Chance on Me. Seyfried, from the HBO series Big Love, is in full control of Sophie, the film's one sensible character. And Streep comes back to earth in a handsomely calibrated rendition...
...last saw George early this year in a Manhattan Theatre Club presentation of Paul Rudnick's Regrets Only. This time he was a fashion designer who moves from comfortably gay to politically gay. Again he was matched with a firecracker actress (Christine Baranski), and again he gave a performance that located every laugh without strangling it. I thought the play was funny and poignant, halfway to profound, but the proposed move to Broadway never materialized. George did, though, when Mary and I and some friends greeted him after the final curtain. Vibrant on stage, he seemed a little more subdued...
...middle-aged actors, who aren't supposed to look that way, the battle is constant. On the set of NBC's sitcom Happy Family, makeup artist Patty Bunch continuously applies light moisturizers with anti-shine creams to actress Christine Baranski's face and lights the area around her eyes to make sure they don't look too deep-set. The series' hair stylist had to darken veteran actor John Larroquette's graying hair because it was glaring white in high definition before a lighting solution was found...
...male figures are all bumbling egotists, their female counterparts’ common sense and perpetual looks of exasperation are just as boring and one-dimensional. Marcia Gay Harden gives the film’s best performance in the single scene that allows her to show a little personality. Christine Baranski, who must be getting sick of playing vengeful, money-grubbing ex-wives, is amusing as ever as the president’s (brace yourself) vengeful, money-grubbing ex-wife...