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Oct. 26 - Nov. 2, 2003 |
Outtakes
Trashy Tracey Trailers
By Angela Baldassarre
Originally Published: 2003-10-05
If you've ever seen Tracey Ullman's Tracey Takes On... series where the comic played several characters, then you'll be familiar with the personage of Ruby Romaine, the veteran makeup artist whose loose morals got her ahead in the world and who now struggles to find work and keep her brain-addled Vietnam casualty of a son out of trouble.
In Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales, airing on The Movie Network October 4, Ullman dedicates a full hour to Romaine as she make-ups Debbie Reynolds and recounts how she retired and unretired in one day. Most of the hour is spent by cutting in flashbacks, and a flashback within a flashback, showing how she finally got her job back.
Problem is, the story is dull as hell, and trashy as well. Despite the uncomfortable appearances by Jane Kaczmarek Rose Marie, M. Emmet Walsh, Paul Dooley, Maury Chaykin and Cheech Marin, the show is quite an annoying and irritating.
Airs at 8 p.m.
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The second annual Directors Guild of Canada Awards take place October 4 at The Carlu in Toronto. Hosted by former Kids in the Hall Dave Foley, this year's event will give out prizes to 15 categories. Nominations for Feature Film achievement include Atom Egoyan (Ararat), Deepa Mehta (Bollywood/Hollywood), David Cronenberg (Spider), and Tim Southam (The Bay of Love & Sorrow); and Television Movie/Mini-Series are Sturla Gunnarsson (100 Days in the Jungle), John N. Smith (Random Passage), Alex Chapple (Torso) and Jerry Ciccoritti (Trudeau).
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This week's DVD/Video review is Andrew Davis' terrific Holes. The story centres on a luckless kid named Stanley Yelnats III (Shia LaBeouf), who through no fault of his own winds up digging holes in the merciless desert of a juvenile detention facility called Camp Green Lake. As Stanley befriends his fellow inmates, and studies the behaviour of their adult minders (Sigourney Weaver, Jon Voight and Tim Blake Nelson), he learns that Camp Green Lake has something to do with an Old West bandit named Kissin' Kate Barlow (Patricia Arquette). The DVD - available in separate full-frame and enhanced widescreen editions - contains an intelligent audio commentary by Davis and Sachar, an entertaining track contributed by the movie's young actors, a production featurette, footage of Sachar visiting the set, a gag reel, deleted scenes and a music video.
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