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...twisted brainchild of producer Joel Wilson, whose previous oeuvres include the 2003 British TV show spoof Osama and U.S., in which Wilson and his regular collaborator Jamie Campbell try to solve their financial problems by finding Osama bin Laden and claiming the reward. Wilson originally envisaged Cast Offs "as something broadly satirical that would poke fun at the way disability is generally viewed ... We wanted to show the disabled were no more and no less f___ed up than anyone else." When writer Jack Thorne came on board - he's the creative talent behind the edgy, teen-drama series Skins...
...that's only the second or third chapter in a story whose brutal revelations come at regular intervals. A riveting scene near the end of the movie - with Mary, Precious and a social worker played by a makeup-free Mariah Carey (who should work for Daniels every chance she gets) - is as powerful as anything on film this year. (Look for other stealth casting, including Lenny Kravitz and Sherri Shepherd.) Because Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry are executive producers, you might expect the sort of classic inspirational arc they both favor. But Winfrey and Perry aren't the creative forces...
...providing colorful interludes between the serene string passages. In a slight lull, the ensemble reached a plateau halfway through and wandered a little too much under Luisi’s distinctly European conducting, with more reserved gestures as its stylistic marker. The absence of the BSO’s regular concertmaster may also have contributed to a rather half-hearted string ensemble...
Davidson was acting as the head coach for the day, with the Crimson’s regular skipper, Stephanie Wriede Morawski ’92, nursing her new baby...
Still, as one poet emphasizes, “If you want [your art] to be accessible to a lot of people, [drug use] is unlikely to be a regular thing...