DVD Tuesday Babies and pie and Keri Russell as a Waitress with a heart of gold and a razor-sharp tongue I dont generally make it my business to recommend movies I merely like rather than love but theres something so sweet and slyly spirited about Waitress that I find myself making an exceptionSmall-town waitress Jenna Keri Russell works at Joes Pie Diner which is where a sweetie-pie like her was bound to wind up Shes kind to persnickety Old Joe Andy Griffith the nightmare patron the other girls do their best to avoid she bucks up mousey Dawn writer-director Adrienne Shelly cracks jokes with Becky Cheryl Hines of TVs Curb Your Enthusiasm and handles cranky boss Cal Lew Temple with no-nonsense aplombJenna isnt a pushover shes got a sharp eye and a sharper tongue Shes just fundamentally decent and looks for the decency in others And she can bake a cherry pie or a spaghetti pie or any other pie you could name and many you couldnt Shes given
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Robert Rodriguez has signed on to direct a new film adaptation of the sci-fi comic-book series Barbarella, previously committed to celluloid by Jane Fonda circa 1968.... Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix will make its international premiere June 28 in Japan. Why there? "No special reason," a studio rep tells Reuters.... To benefit The Adrienne Shelly Foundation, CharityFolks.org is hosting an auction of Waitress memorabilia, including aprons designed by the likes of Keri Russell, Cheryl Hines, Scarlett Johansson and Tori Spelling.
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