Word: chuted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Beans of Egypt, Maine, adapted by Bill Phillips from the novel by Carolyn Chute, has this advantage over just about any other movie one is likely to encounter these days: it takes marginal American lives seriously. It does not patronize them. It does not invest them with tragic significance. It does not turn them into case studies. The film has a style that might be called sympathetic objectivity. Under Jennifer Warren's clear-eyed direction, it simply, almost uninflectedly recounts what happens to Earlene when she finally crosses the road to share Beal with Roberta. This new life takes...
...Chicago-based alternative-rock quartet Veruca Salt is named after a character in the children's book Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, a spoiled brat who is thrown down a garbage chute by 99 angry squirrels. It's a provocative name because there are a lot of whiny alternative bands that deserve to be disposed of the same...
...Cameron makes ripe allegories, often about the search for a redeemer, that are both personal and popular. The Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss and Terminator 2: Judgment Day all took big risks, with film form and finance, that paid off. Cameron is a daredevil director: he goes skydiving without a chute and lands in clover...
...example, take the case of a friend of mine in Quincy whose girlfriend lives in Mather. My friend recently attempted to construct a chute to send his card key from his sixth-floor Quincy suite down to the ground outside, because her card doesn't work in the Quincy system. Is this necessary...
...BEANS OF EGYPT, MAINE: This week production begins on the movie version of Carolyn Chute's novel about incest and squalor in trailer-park Maine. It stars avatar-of-hip Kelly Lynch...