Alfred is busy preparing for his cooking test at the Ritz in London. If he finishes in the top four, he will be accepted to train with the famous Escoffier. I myself prefer EsHotCocoa-ier, especially when you add some EsPeppermintSchnapps-ier, but each to his own. Daisy blushingly helps him, but frets because Alfred’s success means he will be leaving her forever. Yeah, because up until this point their romance has been truly smoking. Poor Daisy. The only men that ever seem to actually fall for her are those who are mortally wounded. Not something that will look good on her “ChristianMingle.com” profile.
Everyone is supportive of Alfred; even Mrs. Patmore allows him to make the savories for the evening meal. They turn out to be a big hit, which causes Thomas to interject, “Hey, I once sampled Alfred’s savories, and I can tell you…oh forget it.
Everyone is supportive of Alfred; even Mrs. Patmore allows him to make the savories for the evening meal. They turn out to be a big hit, which causes Thomas to interject, “Hey, I once sampled Alfred’s savories, and I can tell you…oh forget it.
- 1/27/2014
- by Michael Cornelius
- The Backlot
FILM REVIEW - 'Jo-Jo at the Gate of Lions'
"Jo-Jo at the Gate of the Lions, '' an independent feature that played at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, is receiving a Los Angeles playdate at UCLA tonight. Although it may appear excessively theoretical at first glance, the black-and-white film, which plots the course of a troubled young woman guided by mysterious voices, ends up being quite naturalistic in its emotional specificity. The picture's fate should be largely confined to festivals and non-theatrical venues.
Lorie Marino plays Jo-Jo, an attractive young woman who has gingerly slid into a relationship with Jon (Chris Shearer), an astronomer. However, this kind of love is not enough for Jo-Jo; she submits herself to various penitential pains that one of her mysterious voices suggest will help Jo-Jo prevent nuclear war.
Worse, finding herself out of work, she is drawn into the orbit of a sleazy phone sex operator, Luke (David Schultz), when she takes a job from him.
Some of the action suggests that both of Jo-Jo's relationships are equally damaging to her sense of self, and that the escape into putative madness -- although it's never called that -- is a logical, if dangerous, alternative. Individual scenes, built around cast improvisations, approach this idea with a frequently irresistible emotional force, never more so than in one wrenching phone encounter Jo-Jo has with a caller pursuing a rape fantasy.
Visually, the film is composed in pale gray, which suggests the evasive nature of Jo-Jo's reality and, for that matter, the feature ends with a shot in which Jo-Jo nearly dissolves into air.
JO-JO AT THE GATE OF THE LIONS
Writer-producer-director Britta Sjogren
Cinemato grapherGreg Watkins
Music Jonathan Sampson
Editor Britta Sjogren
Black and white
Cast:
Jo-Joorie Marino
Jon Chris Shearer
Luke David Schultz
Running time -- 103 minutes
No MPAA rating
No MPAA rating(140 words - Issue Date: April 1992)
JELLY'S LAST JAM
The Virginia Theatre
Direction, book George C. Wolfe
Music Jelly Roll Morton
Lyrics Susan Birkenhead
Choreography Hope Clarke
Tap Choreography Gregory Hines, Ted L. Levy
Musical adaptation, orchestrations Luther Henderson
Scenic design Robin Wagner
Costume design Toni-Leslie James
Lighting design Jules Fisher
Executive producer David Strong Warner Inc.
Producers Margo Lion, Pamela Koslow, PolyGram Diversified Entertainment, 126 Second Ave. Corp., 03
Hal Luftig, Roger Hess, Jujamcyn Theatres, TV Asahi, Herb Alpert
CAST:
Jelly Roll Morton Gregory Hines
Young Jelly Savion Glover
Chimney Man Keith David
Jack the Bear Stanley Wayne Mathis
Anita Tonya Pinkins
Miss Mamie Mary Bond Davis
The Hunnies Mamie Duncan-Gibbs
Stephanie Pope, Allison Williams
Gran Mimi.Ann Duquesnay
Buddy Bolden Ruben Santiago-Hudson
(c) The Hollywood Reporter...
Lorie Marino plays Jo-Jo, an attractive young woman who has gingerly slid into a relationship with Jon (Chris Shearer), an astronomer. However, this kind of love is not enough for Jo-Jo; she submits herself to various penitential pains that one of her mysterious voices suggest will help Jo-Jo prevent nuclear war.
Worse, finding herself out of work, she is drawn into the orbit of a sleazy phone sex operator, Luke (David Schultz), when she takes a job from him.
Some of the action suggests that both of Jo-Jo's relationships are equally damaging to her sense of self, and that the escape into putative madness -- although it's never called that -- is a logical, if dangerous, alternative. Individual scenes, built around cast improvisations, approach this idea with a frequently irresistible emotional force, never more so than in one wrenching phone encounter Jo-Jo has with a caller pursuing a rape fantasy.
Visually, the film is composed in pale gray, which suggests the evasive nature of Jo-Jo's reality and, for that matter, the feature ends with a shot in which Jo-Jo nearly dissolves into air.
JO-JO AT THE GATE OF THE LIONS
Writer-producer-director Britta Sjogren
Cinemato grapherGreg Watkins
Music Jonathan Sampson
Editor Britta Sjogren
Black and white
Cast:
Jo-Joorie Marino
Jon Chris Shearer
Luke David Schultz
Running time -- 103 minutes
No MPAA rating
No MPAA rating(140 words - Issue Date: April 1992)
JELLY'S LAST JAM
The Virginia Theatre
Direction, book George C. Wolfe
Music Jelly Roll Morton
Lyrics Susan Birkenhead
Choreography Hope Clarke
Tap Choreography Gregory Hines, Ted L. Levy
Musical adaptation, orchestrations Luther Henderson
Scenic design Robin Wagner
Costume design Toni-Leslie James
Lighting design Jules Fisher
Executive producer David Strong Warner Inc.
Producers Margo Lion, Pamela Koslow, PolyGram Diversified Entertainment, 126 Second Ave. Corp., 03
Hal Luftig, Roger Hess, Jujamcyn Theatres, TV Asahi, Herb Alpert
CAST:
Jelly Roll Morton Gregory Hines
Young Jelly Savion Glover
Chimney Man Keith David
Jack the Bear Stanley Wayne Mathis
Anita Tonya Pinkins
Miss Mamie Mary Bond Davis
The Hunnies Mamie Duncan-Gibbs
Stephanie Pope, Allison Williams
Gran Mimi.Ann Duquesnay
Buddy Bolden Ruben Santiago-Hudson
(c) The Hollywood Reporter...
- 4/1/1992
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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