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...someone obtained a very early draft of a cover story you were working on, circulated it publicly and then picked it apart selectively. I don't question your journalistic right to do this to me, but I do question the fairness of taking an early draft of a script that won't even begin shooting for another month and putting your own very twisted spin...
...source of all of "Dolores Claiborne's" problems is the script, adapted by Tony Gilroy. It should have been burned months before production started. Who in their right mind would have given the screenwriter of the hockey-cum-figure-skating love epic, "The Cutting Edge," another...
...Selena is a whiskey-swilling, cigarette-smoking caricature of a journalist, who spends the majority of her scenes complaining. Jennifer Jason Leigh has her moments with Selena, especially in the epiphany scene on the ferry, but for the most part Leigh's acting skills are wasted by the script. She just reprises her addiction roles from "Dorothy Parker and the Vicious Circle" and "Rush." Move on, Jennifer...
...Dolores Claiborne's" script is at its best when it sticks with King's wonderful characterizations. With ease and humor, Kathy Bates plays the over-worked and under-paid housekeeper who has little happiness in her life besides pride in her daughter. Although her Maine accent is imperfect, Bates delivers Dolores' obnoxious, caustic lines with perfect subtlety. Shifting from a tired fifty year-old to a spritely thirty year-old every other scene is not a feat many actors can accomplish, but Bates skillfully ages Dolores' body movements and psyche...
Three excellent performances, beautiful cinematography, and good flashback editing cannot save "Dolores Claiborne" from its suffocating script. Hollywood has corrupted this movie by turning King's confessional into a flat mother-daughter drama. At least it doesn't have an alternogrunge soundtrack...