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Sherri

admin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:28:55 +0000

What’s It All About? Sherri is a single mother, a full-time paralegal, a part-time comedian/actress and a recent divorcée from her cheating husband. With support from her sister and her friends, Sherri gets back into the dating scene while managing her busy life. Shepherd (The View) brings plenty of attitude to her role, but with lines like “The stages of grief are anger, anger, anger, anger … candy!” and “I am single mother, hear me roar … between the hours of 8pm and 11:30!” the script too often stumbles into “Cathy” comic strip territory.

Sherri

emitchell — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:20:06 +0000

Georgia O’Keeffe

lacken — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:21:42 +0000

Joan Allen and Jeremy Irons? On Lifetime? In a biography of America’s most celebrated female artist? Surprised? Then you haven’t been paying attention to the network’s studious evolution from purveyor of entertaining fluff to that of thoughtful, fact-based films that have lured the likes of Shirley MacLaine, Malcolm McDowell, Sigourney Weaver — and now this remarkable pairing, most recently seen together in Impressionism on the Broadway stage. A makeup-less Allen (who also executive produces) is fiercely luminous as the Wisconsin-born O’Keeffe, and her effortless chemistry with Irons’ charismatic Alfred Stieglitz is the showpiece of the film, even as the latter teeters distractingly close to a cape-sweeping caricature toward the film’s end. Tyne Daly is bracing as O’Keeffe’s momentary tormentor-turned-lifelong-friend Mabel Dodge Luhan, the socialite who first introduced O’Keeffe to her beloved Taos. Though O’Keeffe-ophiles may grump that the film — originally optioned by HBO — occasionally smudges the line between fact and fiction, it is nonetheless a stunningly crafted, beautifully detailed love song to the oft-contentious, occasionally cruel and utterly unbreakable bond between the plainspoken artist and the eccentric, New York-based photographer who was the love of her life.