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...assault on Broadway. The bigger question is whether they belong there. Cantone, a New York City comic and actor perhaps best known for his recurring role as Charlotte's wedding planner in Sex and the City, is a talented, high-voltage performer with a bag of good impressions (Julia Child, Sammy Davis Jr.) and a bitchy, high-camp sensibility. But despite some second-act musings about his family, including his mother's death from cancer, Laugh Whore seems a largely impersonal, oversized cable-TV special. Which the Showtime-produced show soon will...
Ramon’s plans meet enormous obstacles because euthanasia is not endorsed by the Spanish legal system, and so Ramon recruits a lawyer, Julia (Belen Rueda), to help him fight for the right to die. His desire appears very resolute despite the seemingly good life he has been able to lead with his brother Jose (Celso Bugallo) and cared for by Jose’s wife Manuela (Mabel Rivera) and son Javi (Tamar Bovas...
While his family plays an important role in Ramon’s life, it is the lawyer, Julia, that proves to be his pulse, and in fact the pulse of the entire film. She is the one Ramon seeks when he conjures up the dream world that is his escape from his everyday limitations, and she is the only one who manages to force him to question his line of action. When she experiences a sudden fall we come to discover that, like Ramon, her body is damaged. In those brief moments of uncertainty, our hearts sink in desperation with...
...credit, the picture never tries to give us simple answers to its difficult questions, but, instead, uses the parallel characters arcs of Ramon and Julia to settle upon a concentrated rumination on the value of living. “Why can’t I appreciate what I have?” Ramon asks himself breaking into tears late one night. All the way through, as if as an implicit recognition of the difficulty of its subject matter, the film implies that everything will be alright even if the desired ending is not reached...
Although she has yet to graduate, Julia C. Wong ’05 already knows well the business of imaginative writing. In fact, the Leverett House resident serves as the Fiction Editor of the Harvard Advocate, frequently enrolls in fiction workshops and is even pursuing a creative thesis under the guidance of the legendary author of fiction Jamaica Kincaid. This week, the English and American Literature and Language concentrator took a brief break from her literary business for some time under the “Spotlight,” sharing her thoughts on her development as a writer at Harvard...