Singles - Long Blondes (The)

Advantages: perfect little gem of a film
Disadvantages: none

...?I?d try to comprehend you but I got a dyslexic heart?? Singles, Cameron Crowe?s 1992 tale of the twentysomething search for love in Seattle, is one of my all-time favourite films. This sweet, episodic mix of neatly interlinking storylines is very human, very funny and has probably the best soundtrack of any film in that decade (yes, that includes Pulp Fiction). ?How did this stuff get so complicated? I don?t know.? The storyline strands are relatively few, and this is why the film continues to be coherent and believable. Poor Linda has been dumped on more times than she cares to remember, so is in no mood to meet Steve, who might just be the love of her life. Steve?s ex Janet is, meanwhile, in love with her neighbour in the block of ?singles? in which they live, but Cliff is just too wrapped up in his music to give a damn... Read review

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Advantages: proves that some blondes arent morons
Disadvantages: too silly for some

..., and there is also a scene-stealing turn by Jennifer Coolidge (yes, Stiffler's Mom) as Paulette a hair stalon stylist who has the hots for a UPS deliverly man. Jesseca Cauffiel and Alanna Ubach are very funny (if a little over-the-top) as Elle's sorority friends who deliver one of the film's funniest lines at the climactic courtroom scene, which I will repeat at the end of this film. Then there is also the legendary Raquel Welch who appears ever so briefly. LEGALLY BLONDE is actually based on a novel by Amanda Brown, which I'm sure is nothing like the movie, though I would like to read it just the same. The book was adapted by Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith; Lutz attended James Madison University in Virginia (the same uni I went to!!), and she and Smith also penned the highly successful 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU!!! They... Read review

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Advantages: Good compilation of The Smiths for someone wanting to get into the band, or someone with an interest in their music
Disadvantages: Some of their best material weren't released as singles, and so aren't on this album. Not as good as 'Very Best of the Smiths'

...'t long before the two were writing songs and their initial idea was to sell the songs they wrote, but instead (thankfully, and mostly due to Morrissey's aspirations of pop stardom (he had been in some unsuccessful bands like 'Wild Ram', who later called themselves 'Not Sensibles' then 'Ed Banger and the Nosebleeds' and finally 'The Nosebleeds') they recruited Mike Joyce to be their drummer and Andy Rourke to be their bassist. The name 'The Smiths' incidently was used as a backlash to contemporary eighties artists who to give themselves the most over the top names (who would do a thing like that) to disguise their musical inadequcies. The first single the new four-piece release was 'Hand in Glove' in May 1983, but it charted very poorly. Fortunately their luck changed six months later with one of their most famous songs 'This Charming Man... Read review

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