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Harry Thoreau (James LeGros), Julian's partner in the bank job, has been waiting at the Marilyn Motel, where the rooms all bear names of Ms. Monroe's films. Julian wants to take his money and his girl and be on his way, but there are, as Harry points out, two major problems with that plan. The first is that Lucille has taken up with Tuerto (James Belushi), a ball-scratching casino-owner and thug. The second is that "the money the weirdness is gone." And here is where the weirdness starts...
When Julian asks for an explanation of how Harry could have lost the money, Harry tells the story of the night they returned from robbing the bank. Lucille was not in her room at the Marilyn Motel, and Julian went to look for her. He was subsequently arrested. While Harry was waiting for him to return, a bolt of lighting hit the roof of the motel, the swimming pool started to glow, and a naked man rose out of the water, shocked Harry into unconsciousness and took the money. This outlandish story turns out to be true, and the naked...
...movie aspires to some ambitious symbolism, but falls way short. Harry Thoreau lives next to a mythic pool, while Henry Thoreau lived next to a mythic pond, but this is left just a gimmick. Much of the movie takes place at the Marilyn Motel. The controversy surrounding Monroe's life and death is supposed to echo the theme of extraordinary events. The film's script cripples any possibly interesting manifestation of this potentially interesting idea...
...should be killed, and that he blamed the FBI and the ATF for killing theBranch Davidians in Waco." None of the charges bear directly on Wednesday's bombing. After police released a revised sketch of the second suspect, known as "John Doe 2," the manager of the Great Western Motel in Junction City, Kan., said today that the man had been there two days before the incident: "He spoke broken English. It was a foreign name. He said he was from Colorado. He drove a Ryder truck." Junction City is where the FBI has said the Ryder truck used...
...Motel Blues is a series of episodes in the lives of photographer Jarred (Jay Heath) and his vapid girlfriend Flee (Angelina Zappia), who have travelled to a remote rat-trap hotel in the desert so that Jarred can complete a project. It quickly becomes clear, however, that their relationship is strained and distrustful; the ugly monotony of their surroundings matches the emptiness of their bizarre conversations The strain is increased by Jarred's evident contempt for Flee's favorite activities, reading fashion magazines and eating junk food...