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...realize she could not control her scripts unless she became a director -- which she has just done, in the witty and poignant This Is My Life, which opened the Sundance Film Festival last week and will be released commercially Feb. 21. The script, which she wrote with her sister Delia, treats a comedian (Julie Kavner), caught between the conflicting demands of career and kids, who uses her daughters' lives in her routine. This kind of family cannibalism is something the Ephron sisters grew up with...
...Sister Delia says, "Our mother was not the warmest person, but she established our world. I think of her as a security blanket without the warmth. She had an opinion on everything, and we ((daughters)), who are just as opinionated, did everything she told us to. The Ephron girls do not join sororities or any organized religion." Each daughter had to take two years of Latin and three years of French in high school. "God forbid we should have anything to do with science," Delia recalls. Delia grew up resisting the idea of writing altogether: "Nora had staked that...
KILLER JOE: SCENE OF THE CRIME (Hard Ticket). The knockdown, knockout party record of the season, if your idea of a blowout is straight-from-the-hear t rock with the rollicking flavor of the Jersey shore. Killer Joe Delia is a piano pounder with a raucous voice, and he's buttressed here by the eloquent drumming of his crony Max Weinberg, late of the E Street Band, and guest performers like Little Steven and Jon Bon Jovi. Glory days indeed...
...characters consist mainly of Vegas standbys--gamblers, showgirls and lounge lizards. Among the eight males and eight "females," played by men in drag, are casino-inspired Collier Bluff, Delia Cards and Roland Dice...
...Delia S.A. de C.V., one of Felix Gallardo's numerous businesses, was surrounded by soldiers, and truckloads of soldiers patrolled Culiacan's streets all day Sunday...