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Maya rudolph5/11/2023 Molly is funny to the point of absurdity, absurd to the point of hilarity, and heartwarming when you least expect her to be. Rudolph is taking center stage as Molly Novak, a recently divorced, obscenely wealthy woman who is learning to give back…but not too much. After a string of scene-stealing side characters and a few short-lived lead roles (Amazon, this is my plea to bring back Forever, I promise society is finally ready for it), Ms. I’ve personally acknowledged Rudolph’s unabashed greatness since basically birth - thanks to my mother exclaiming, “Oh, I LOVE her!” whenever she appeared on TV throughout my life - but I feel like Hollywood as a whole has sort of slept on Rudolph’s massive talent for the majority of her career.Įnter: Loot (and the 49th vice president of the United States). (BTW, as I write this, "Idiocracy" has a 71% rating on, compared to 43% for last week's box-office topper, "Gridiron Gang" 31% for Brian De Palma's "The Black Dahlia" and 17% for "All the King's Men," opening Friday.Maya Rudolph: Saturday Night Live legend, comedy icon, an actor who never fails to bring me joy when she pops up on screen in the middle of anything and everything (my QUEEN of cameos). I recommend checking out Dennis's essay about the film - and what happened to it - here. The pair, barely three digits in the IQ department between them to start with, awaken to a world so battered and worn down by an abased pop culture, relentless corporate corruption and political ineffectuality that they are, by acidly ironic default, the smartest people on the planet. But when the officer’s illegal activities end up getting him imprisoned and the base bulldozed, Wilson and Rudolph are left on ice not for a year but for 500. The experiment is designed to monitor physical changes in cryogenically frozen subjects over a period of a year. A low-level army base slacker (Luke Wilson) and a randomly selected hooker (Maya Rudolph) are selected to participate in a military experiment, headed by an officer with more than just a little taste for the pimpin’ lifestyle-that’s how the hooker gets roped in. And let’s not forget the military-insofar as they represent by definition the aggressive arm of any government, Judge certainly hasn’t. Sounds simple enough, right? But by the time the movie really gets going Judge has laid culpability for the crumbling mental capacity of society at the feet of lawmakers, corporations and opportunistic politicians too. Smart folks are too selfish to procreate, while Li’l Abner and Daisy Mae can’t keep their genitalia to themselves. The groundwork for "Idiocracy" is laid in a hilarious parody of authoritarian educational films that exposes the roots of humanity’s slippery slide toward pea-brain-osity in the frigidity of intellectuals (or at least their yuppie subset) and the unchecked rutting of the uneducated poor. When I got back I learned that none of those theaters was in Seattle, so - guess what? - I haven't been able to see it.īut Dennis Cozzalio at Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule reports that it's superficially dumb, deceptively smart - and funny: Well, that doesn't take any imagination at all, does it? "Idiocracy," the new film by Mike Judge ("Office Space," "King of the Hill," "Beavis and Butthead"), opened in a handful of theaters in the United States while I was in Canada for the Toronto Film Festival. Imagine a studio dumping a movie because it just doesn't know how to sell it. Imagine a country where, even at the highest levels of power, ignorance is flaunted and incompetence rewarded. Here's the official website for The Shard. You can read an article about it at the Guardian. The tower was designed by Renzo Piano, the Italian architect best know for creating Paris's Pompidou Centre of modern art with Richard Rogers, and more recently the New York Times Tower. It's been designed with an irregular triangular shape from base to top and will be covered entirely in glass. The Shard will stand 1,017 ft high and have 72 floors, plus another 15 radiator floors in the roof. It's already the second highest free-standing structure in the UK after the Emley Moor transmitting station. Ie: not impressed, but that's me and why I'm glad I saw London before they started to totally ruin it.Known as the "London Bridge Tower" before they changed the name, when completed in 2012, it will be the tallest building in Europe and 45th highest in the world. I assume those are pigeons flying over-head and not buzzards. Marie writes: They call it "The Shard" and it's currently rising over London akin to Superman's Fortress of Solitude and dwarfing everything around it, especially St.
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