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...delivered by Tracy’s best friend Penny Pingleton, played by Caissie Levy. Levy’s pinpoint accurate comedic timing and unfailing charisma exponentially heighten the show’s appeal. While many of the actors’ mediocre singing voices are overwhelmed by the orchestra, Motormouth Maybelle’s earth-shattering ballads are sung entrancingly by Charlotte Crossley. Despite its flaws, “Hairspray” still proves to be wildly entertaining with its seamless set scenery and colorful costumes. The imaginative and intricate dance choreography adds to the visual extravaganza. Additionally, the ensemble cast...
Screenwriter James DeMonaco peoples the precinct with a Grand Hotel's worth of character clich??s: the grizzled patrolman (Brian Dennehy) who's ready to retire; the woman cop (Drea de Matteo) who can out-tough the macho men; the motormouth con (John Leguizamo) who sees ways of escape in the encroaching anarchy. This bunch could start a brawl in a bus line. But they need to become a community fast to fight an enemy whose siege tactics are as unfathomable as they are unstoppable...
Pekar, who occasionally appears as himself in the film but is mostly played (brilliantly) as a sort of hand-cranked motormouth by Paul Giamatti, is a guy who hears America squawking and whining and choking on its own bile. Befriended by such comics artists as R. Crumb, Pekar starts turning out stories for them to illustrate. These anticomics, from which American Splendor gets its title, together with some appearances on Late Night with David Letterman, grant him underground fame but never enough money to quit...
...peers, whose endlessly polished routines had to endure unchanging over the long years they toured the circuit. That skill made Hope the perfect comedian for the new media of radio and TV, which chewed up material (and personalities) at a manic rate. We were properly awed by his motormouth profligacy. We knew he had a million jokes on an equal number of topics: Eleanor Roosevelt, Crosby's golf game, Los Angeles pedestrians, income taxes...
...Seaweed takes Penny and Tracy to meet his mom, Motormouth Maybelle (Mary Bond Davis), who hosts the once-a-month Negro Day on Corky's show and runs a record store on the dark side of town. The two nice white chicks love the cluttered store's music, its warmth and perceived danger. (Tracy: "This is so Afro-tastic!") In two shakes, Link shows up, and Edna and Wilbur. The place is crawling with Caucasians! A black girl mutters, "If we get any more white people in here, it'll be a suburb...