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...rival JoJo's hand to a burning baton, Mona is disqualified from competing in the county. Most unfortunately for her, she also discovers that she's pregnant, therefore disqualifying her from competing in any beauty pageant. Ruby, being the sweet, kind-hearted thing she is, adopts the baby Vanessa (the Pepsi girl Hallie Kate Eisenberg), allowing Mona to continue her trek to gloriously oh-so-wonderful beauty stardom...
CANDIDATE 1 Vanessa PROS Will get the minority vote CONS Low name recognition...
...Daniel Auteuil) is a carnival knife thrower down on his luck. She (Vanessa Paradis, a.k.a. Mrs. Johnny Depp) is a waif who has permitted too many penetrations of a seemingly less lethal sort. And here they are, strangers on a bridge, contemplating suicide. She takes the plunge. He rescues her. Miraculously, their luck changes. And then, not so miraculously, changes again. This is a tangy frappe of a movie--preposterously comic, deliriously romantic, outrageously stylish in black-and-white. But in its cockeyed way it has some interesting things to say about the waywardness of chance and, in one weird...
...those of you who don't know what W is because you are normal, it is an oversize, snotty fashion magazine. The June issue ran this tidbit: "Those adorable newlyweds Vanessa and Bill Getty hosted a gala wine tasting and auction at the St. Francis Hotel with the swell crowd invited"--just a page away from a picture of someone named Muffy Potter Ashton. I mock the magazine partly because I figure if I make the editors mad enough, they will cut me from the spread and no one will have to see the pictures of me. But mostly because...
Wright's a wonder, playing a role that was--deservedly--built up during production. But that leaves a lot of other actors--among them Vanessa Williams, Toni Collette and Roundtree himself (as Shaft's beamish uncle)--shortchanged. It also leaves Jackson to play yet another cop rebelliously disgusted with the system and Singleton with yet another urban action piece, well enough made but not essentially different from a hundred other movies just like...