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full S.W.A.T. team (if only to cross-promote
that movie) within a couple of minutes allows
time for about 10 minutes of resolution with-
out a single siren or flashing light.
But all that stuff is just an excuse to bring
the stars together for Gigli's real raison d'etre —
the love story. It begins from the guy's point of
view: there's this hot babe in his apartment
who accepts an offer to share his bed rather
than sleep on the floor (or make him sleep on
the floor). It seems to end when she interrupts
his seduction attempt with, "I'm gay. I'm a les-
bian."
At this point viewers will assume she's
telling him that to end the conversation —
she's not available, period — and that later
she'll warm to him and the movie will get back
on track.
The last part is right but not the first. Her
name's not really Ricki but she really is a les-
bian. (At least you can't say the trailers give
too much away on this one.) He introduces
her that way to his mother (Kazan), who
understands: "I used to be quite experimen-
tal." The lover (Missy Crider) Ricki recently
dumped tracks her to Larry's and attempts
suicide.
While they're still on opposite sides of the
orientation divide they have a cute conversa-
tion where Larry expounds on The Power of
the Penis and Ricki trumps him with a Vagina
Monologue while scantily clad and doing exer-
cises that drive him wild.
Even as she becomes quite experimental
Ricki teases Larry about his own orientation
and makes him question whether he can com-
pete with the women she's known. When she
offers herself to him she says, "I thought you
wanted to be my bitch" and he replies, "This is
so fucked-up" — as good a capsule review of
Gigli as I can come up with.
Brest peppers his screenplay with crowd-
pleasing elements (mainly Bartha's Brian) and
devices from Screenwriting 101. Louis is
learning a new word a day. Pacino repeats
himself a couple of times and explains, "I say
everything twice." He gives a couple of exam-
ples, then never repeats himself again. At least
no one's trying to quit smoking.
In the long run your tolerance for Gigli will
depend on how much you like the stars, indi-
vidually and together. I've enjoyed each of
them in some of their films but think they're
half as interesting as a couple than they are
separately. So I'm not the kind of fan who
would forgive them Anything, which is what's
required here.
How far would Tracy and Hepburn have
gotten as a team if they'd had to spout dia-
logue like, "Come over here and practice your
heterolingus on me"? T
Opens today in wide release.
Gigli *1/2 lout of four)
Starring Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez
Written and directed by Martin Brest
Campy cure for the summertime blues
Comedy pokes fun at what showtime-loving geeks do on vacation
In the tradition of Fame and Meatballs, film-
maker Todd
Graff takes a
wholesome
look at the
awkwardness of
teenage musical-theater
queens who attend Camp
Ovation on their summer break
Normally, the kids of Camp
Ovation are the misfits whom
everyone picks on. Michael gets the
crap kicked out of him when he
tries to attend the junior prom in
drag. And unpopular Ellen begs
her snotty brother to take her to
her junior prom.
But once these kids are
singing Sondheim, they
have arrived in Oz — at least for two months.
As the hard work begins on putting together
a new show every two weeks, the drama
isn't only on stage. Relationships are
formed, talent is tested, and hearts are
broken.
With show stopping productions
— like the
i frn | -. little white
girl in a bee-
hive wig pouring her heart out in
Ig|» Dreamgirls' "And I'm Telling You" —
mm\ Camp hits almost every note right on tar-
get. T
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Vercher, Dennis. Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, August 1, 2003, newspaper, August 1, 2003; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth616382/m1/33/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.