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Bates and
by Craig Cam
The Collegian
Violence, explosions and
people getting stabbed to death!
These are the things that I'm
usually attracted to in a movie.
Fried Green Tomatoes, however,
had none of these, but I still liked
it.
Kathy Bates (whom all of us
remember from Misery) stars in
this film as Evelyn Couch, an
overweight housewife whose
marriage is beginning to fail. She
goes with her husband to visit
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Tandy serve up Fried Green Tomatoes
his aunt in an old-folks-home and
when the aunt doesn't want to
visit with her, she decides to sit
in the waiting room. This is
where she meets Ninny (Jessica
Tandy - star of Driving Miss
Daisy).
Ninny begins to tell tales of
life in the old days, but Evelyn
(along with the audience) gets
wrapped up in the story. The
story is about a young girl named
Idgy, a tomboy character whose
brother is killed leaving her
emotionally scarred. We follow
Idgy as she grows up and deals
The Man
Dinner :
by Vicky Snyder
The Collegian
The Roadhouse Theatre
presented another rib cracking
comedy written by George
Kaufman and Moss Hart. The
Man Who Came to Dinner was
cleverly directed by Scott
McClelland who molded the
script into a hilarious depiction
of a self-centered, city writer who
accidently finds himself in a
small, no-where town in 1939.
The play opens with Mrs.
Stanley (Sue Hedges) running
frantically through her finely
decorated home, trying to make
sure everything is perfect for their
famous house-guest, Sheridan
Whiteside.
We also see Richard Stanley
(Behrend student Danny Burger)
and June Stanley (Christy
Buchholz) run through without
notice. Through all of this
activity, we learn that Mr.
Whiteside has slipped on a piece
of ice covering the Stanley’s
walkway and will be staying with
the family until he recovers from'
his injuries.
Little did the Stanleys know
that their guest would virtually
take over the house. He threatens
them with a SI 50,000 lawsuit if
with her soap opera life
She is withdrawn from her
family, so her dead brother's
girlfriend, Ruth, tries to get her
to open up and soon Ruth and
Idgy become best friends. We see
that there is more to Idgy than
meets the eye. She is actually a
caring, but gutsy young lady.
All of the stories that Ninny
tells Evelyn are told as Evelyn
visits the old-folks-home, and
like in the story about Ruth and
Idgy, Ninny and Evelyn become
best friends. Evelyn is trying to
save her marriage and become a
Who Came to
Hilarious success
they don't stay upstairs in their
bedrooms during his visit. He
makes it clear that he now has
control over the phone, butler and
cook.
The only person who seems
to be able to exert some amount
of pressure on Whiteside is his
secretary, Maggie Cutler ( Kim
Me). She is a very efficient,
quick-minded character who sets
Whiteside straight from time to
lime.
Maggie falls in love with the
local newspaper man, Bert
Jefferson (Dennis Dressier).
Whiteside, jealous over Maggie's
romance, sends for the beautiful
actress, Lorraine Sheldon (Tina
Corrainc), who is desperate for a
part in a play. It just so happens
that Jefferson has written a
brilliant play.
After discovering Whiteside's
plan, Maggie devises a plan of
her own. She instructs one of his
lunatic friends to imitate the
voice of Sheldon's rich, English
lover over the phone. Sheldon
falls for the false marriage
proposal until she discovers the
trick was set up by Maggie. This
motivates her to continue the
chase for Jefferson, Maggie's
only real love.
The rest of the play centered
stronger person, and Ninny's
stories help her to do that.
Evelyn finds her inner strength
and begins to change her life to
make herself more happy.
This movie is very funny at
certain times and very sad at
certain times also. The two
different story lines keep the
audience's interest and even
though there aren't machine guns
firing at our hero like in Die
Hard , there are times when I am
pulled to the edge of my seat.
The actors' performances are
brilliant, but I have one problem
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on trying to get rid of Lorraine
Sheldon and restore Jefferson and
Maggie's relationship. This is
done by using some very side
splitting, slap-stick humor.
Sheldon finally ends up being
toted away in a mummy case sent
as a gift by one of Whiteside's
many strange friends.
Ben Agrcsti, who plays the
wise-cracking, egotistical writer
Sheridan Whiteside, turns in a
vigorous performance. His one
liners are executed in flawless
harmony with his colorful facial
expressions. Each line prompts a
burst of laughter from the
audience.
Other well-played parts
include Nurse Preen (Ruth
Scandale), who puts up with
Whiteside’s insults as she
attempts to give him his
medicine. Harriett Stanley (Ruth
Andrews) plays the insane sister
of Mr. Stanley who drifts in to
show Whiteside her photo
albums and always runs away
when other people enter the
room.
This group of talented actors,
armed with a recipe for laughter,
put on a brilliant show. Each
character fit the part and every
detail is carefully thought out.
with this movie. I sat waiting for
Kathy Bates to strap Tandy to her
bed and wack her fool off with a
sledge hammer (it doesn’t
happen).
One pointer I do have though
is don't go see this movie with a
bunch of guys; take a date or
maybe even your mom. Either
way just go see it, it's worth the
six bucks to get in and it's better
than sitting in front of the TV
watching Different Strokes
reruns.
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