Word: brockoviches
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...regulars are gathered around the bar at Our Place, drinking cold colas to slake the Mojave Desert's midday parch, when somebody finally brings up the subject on everyone's mind: Erin Brockovich. "I remember the night the real Erin Brockovich walked in here," recalls bartender Lynn Tindell. "She was strutting her stuff. She knew all the guys were looking at her." Brockovich, as anyone who has seen the movie knows, was the sexy single mom who helped the residents of Hinkley, Calif., win a record $333 million settlement against Pacific Gas & Electric for contaminating their well water with toxic...
Last week the film passed the $100 million mark in box-office receipts, and people were speculating that Julia Roberts might win an Oscar for her uplifting role as the gutsy and busty Brockovich. But in Hinkley, plenty of people are angry over Erin, which they feel portrays the lawyers as white knights and the townspeople as a bunch of hicks. Residents are angry because, while the movie makes it seem that justice was done, in fact only 600 of the town's 1,000 residents won a money award. They are also peeved because the movie's success...
...Erin Brockovich is slick, grating and false. We bet it makes a bundle...
Poor Erin Brockovich. a twice-divorced mother of three, she lacks money for her kids' day care and her own meal at a diner. Yet Erin (Julia Roberts) has the stash for an endless supply of trashy frocks, which she wears to job interviews, even to court as the plaintiff in a car-crash suit. They're the sort of clothes that Roberts' hooker in Pretty Woman would have rejected as way too gaudy...