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...Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (HBO). Holly Hunter, mystically mute in the movie The Piano, chattered compulsively as Wanda Holloway, the homemaker accused of plotting to eliminate her daughter's cheerleading competition. Her hilarious, high-strung performance was just part of the fun of this delicious send-up of TV's ripped- from-the-headlines docudramas. Director Michael Ritchie (Smile) brought his deadpan wit to a marvelous script by Jane Anderson, and Lucy Simon contributed an infectious, country-flavored score...
...ironic that your portrait of Natalya Dmitruk, the courageous translator and signer to the deaf for the Ukrainian state-run television station ut-1, included a reference to her parents as "deaf mute." Deaf people are just that: deaf. The erroneous and condescending term deaf mute went out in the 1950s. Please don't revive it. Robbin Battison Stockholm...
...that adores their wry, unmistakably British humor. The formula is straightforward but enchanting. Wallace is the bald, big-grinned inventor with a different job in every film but two constant passions: wacky, necessarily unnecessary contraptions and a good hunk of cheese. Gromit is his resourceful mutt, who becomes a mute Watson to Wallace’s Sherlock Holmes whenever a mystery arises...
...Sallis) as a vague, cheerful bachelor, whose obsession for dreaming up elaborate contraptions almost equals his fondness for cheese. (Wallace's bookshelf, as seen in Were-Rabbit, contains such volumes as East of Edam, Brie Encounter and Fromage to Eternity.) Gromit, his master's fretful servant and savior, is mute. He conveys his always justified anxiety via minute twitches of the most eloquent movie eyebrows since Groucho's. At the climax of each film, Wallace's handyman hubris has put the duo in an awful dilemma that can be resolved only with a thrilling chase. Domesticity restored...
...Albright, who hugged her and said in Russian: "Natalya, I'm proud of you. You're a smart one." Dmitruk says that made her feel "warm and deeply moved," though she says she does not "feel like a hero at all." Dmitruk learned her signing skills from her deaf-mute parents, former industrial workers who are now retired. Though not deaf-mute herself, she sees it as her mission to provide deaf people with a vital link to the world. And despite President Yushchenko's dismissal of his government amid allegations of corruption, she still believes the orange revolution will...