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...plot follows the bold Gina Norris (Latifah), who had a brief role in Barbershop 2. In the Atlanta-based Beauty Shop, Norris becomes offended by the comments of boss Jorge Christophe (Kevin Bacon), and leaves his hair salon to open her own beauty shop, accompanied by hair-washer Lynn (Alicia Silverstone...
Director Bille Woodruff uses the relations among his female characters to highlight racial diversity, conflict, and integration. The attempts of Lynn—the only white hairdresser at the shop—to assimilate with the predominantly African American group of hair stylists is handled interestingly and honestly by Woodruff. As a reaction to her exclusion, Lynn changes her squeaky clean image, culminating in a particularly funny dance sequence. (Unlike some hokey dance routines in movies like Hitch, Silverstone, making a great comeback from Clueless, pulls off a physically-challenging Harlem shake...
Playing off the idea that the line between comedy and tragedy is hair thin, Melinda and Melinda tells two parallel stories of one neurotic woman, Melinda. The formal agenda is augmented by a framing device wherein dapper middle-aged New York playwrights enjoy a leisurely lunch and, in the course of discussing the two genres, ad lib the stories of Melinda for the entertainment of their friends. The dramatist weaves a “tragedy” while the comedy writer composes a “comedy...
...film makes excellent use of splashes of color to break up the black-and-white, and little things like a woman’s blonde hair, a hooker’s green or blue eyes, and Dwight’s bright red sneakers give eye-catching excitement to each frame. The blood is particularly colorful, and appears in red, chocolate-syrupy black, and even tempera-paint white...
...boarding school, as was common at the time for families who could afford it. Peter was enrolled at the Fay School in Massachusetts and I at the Emma Willard School in Troy, N.Y. Starting my freshman year at Emma Willard, being very thin assumed dominance over good hair in the hierarchy of what really mattered...