This year, more than 1,000 people participated in the 24th Annual Best Buddies Challenge: Hyannis Port presented by Shaw’s and Star Market Foundation and The Tjx Companies, Inc., a cycling, run and walk fundraiser from Boston to Hyannis Port, on June 2-3.
The Challenge raised close to $4 million in total donations for Best Buddies International, a nonprofit dedicated to creating opportunities for one-to-one friendships, integrated employment, leadership development, and inclusive living for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (Idd).
The weekend’s festivities commenced with an intimate cocktail reception at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston. The reception included a guided museum tour and performances by Best Buddies Ambassadors Christina Hundley and James Keith.
On Saturday, June 3, hundreds of riders took to the 100-mile start line at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, led by professional cyclist Cam Wurf, Current US Pro Women’s Road Champion Emma Langley,...
The Challenge raised close to $4 million in total donations for Best Buddies International, a nonprofit dedicated to creating opportunities for one-to-one friendships, integrated employment, leadership development, and inclusive living for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (Idd).
The weekend’s festivities commenced with an intimate cocktail reception at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston. The reception included a guided museum tour and performances by Best Buddies Ambassadors Christina Hundley and James Keith.
On Saturday, June 3, hundreds of riders took to the 100-mile start line at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, led by professional cyclist Cam Wurf, Current US Pro Women’s Road Champion Emma Langley,...
- 6/9/2023
- Look to the Stars
In the working draft, the green script, it appears on page 51. "Kane's face screws into a mask of agony," read the terse, throb-like description. "A red stain, a smear of blood, blossoms on his chest. The fabric on his shirt rips open and a small head, the size of a fist, punches out…"
Jump-cut to Dallas in the spring of 1979, the second test screening of Alien. The first, in St. Louis, had been unconvincing: the sound had been out, the audience restless and the effect muted. In Dallas, the tentative Fox execs were to find out what they had on their hands.
As is now so familiar, it built slowly: 45 minutes, as Ridley Scott_); the dead ship (dubbed the "Derelict" by modelmakers); the haunting Space Jockey, a black rupture in its fossilised chest; and the Egg, gently pulsating before it peels open with a squelch – like sucking milkshake… "We were at the back,...
Jump-cut to Dallas in the spring of 1979, the second test screening of Alien. The first, in St. Louis, had been unconvincing: the sound had been out, the audience restless and the effect muted. In Dallas, the tentative Fox execs were to find out what they had on their hands.
As is now so familiar, it built slowly: 45 minutes, as Ridley Scott_); the dead ship (dubbed the "Derelict" by modelmakers); the haunting Space Jockey, a black rupture in its fossilised chest; and the Egg, gently pulsating before it peels open with a squelch – like sucking milkshake… "We were at the back,...
- 4/26/2023
- by Ian Nathan
- Empire - Movies
Small Planet Pictures
NEW YORK -- The latest in a seemingly endless spate of Mafia-themed comedies, this effort is distinctive only for its extensive location shooting in Moscow. The tale of a hapless would-be tough guy traveling to Russia in pursuit of a mail-order bride who has scammed a series of hapless Americans, including a "family" member, "Mail Order Bride" is ultimately unable to overcome both its amateurish qualities and its overly familiar elements. It is playing an exclusive engagement at Manhattan's Village East Cinema.
Robert Capelli Jr., who also co-directed (with Jeffrey Wolf) and co-wrote the screenplay (with Doug Bollinger and Sergey Konenkov), stars as Anthony Santini, the nephew of mob boss Tony Santini (Danny Aiello). When Tony's "friend" Jackie the Viking (Jackie Martling) is scammed by his beautiful Russian "bride" Nina, he sees a perfect opportunity to get his troublesome nephew out of his hair by sending him to Moscow in pursuit of both the girl and the money. He also finds a way to make money on the proposition -- by placing odds on Anthony's inevitable failure.
In Moscow, Anthony teams up with Ivan (Slava Schoot), the son of Moscow's top mob boss, in pursuit of the elusive Nina. Encountering a city filled with sleazy nightclubs populated by strippers and whores, Anthony soon finds himself falling head over heels with the beautiful "Butterfly" (Ivana Milicevic), who, it turns out, also happens to be the object of his pursuit. Needless to say, complications ensue, with Butterfly getting Anthony involved in a risky bank robbery.
The filmmakers clearly intend a light-hearted gangster romp, freely mixing lowbrow humor with antic action, but they generally fail on both counts. Despite a series of cameo appearances by a procession of familiar faces -- Frank Gorshin as the "No. 1 doctor in all of Russia", Artie Lange as Anthony's buffoonish pal and, in the requisite lifting from the cast of "The Sopranos", Vincent Pastore as a goodfella who sells designer clothing out of the trunk of his car -- the film is content to simply reprise comedic cliches and squanders the opportunities to be found for genuine humor in the culture clash between the Italian and Russian mobs.
Not helping matters are the mostly ineffectual performances, though Schoot finds some moments of sly humor as the exasperated Ivan, and Milicevic is utterly ravishing as the Russian femme fatale.
NEW YORK -- The latest in a seemingly endless spate of Mafia-themed comedies, this effort is distinctive only for its extensive location shooting in Moscow. The tale of a hapless would-be tough guy traveling to Russia in pursuit of a mail-order bride who has scammed a series of hapless Americans, including a "family" member, "Mail Order Bride" is ultimately unable to overcome both its amateurish qualities and its overly familiar elements. It is playing an exclusive engagement at Manhattan's Village East Cinema.
Robert Capelli Jr., who also co-directed (with Jeffrey Wolf) and co-wrote the screenplay (with Doug Bollinger and Sergey Konenkov), stars as Anthony Santini, the nephew of mob boss Tony Santini (Danny Aiello). When Tony's "friend" Jackie the Viking (Jackie Martling) is scammed by his beautiful Russian "bride" Nina, he sees a perfect opportunity to get his troublesome nephew out of his hair by sending him to Moscow in pursuit of both the girl and the money. He also finds a way to make money on the proposition -- by placing odds on Anthony's inevitable failure.
In Moscow, Anthony teams up with Ivan (Slava Schoot), the son of Moscow's top mob boss, in pursuit of the elusive Nina. Encountering a city filled with sleazy nightclubs populated by strippers and whores, Anthony soon finds himself falling head over heels with the beautiful "Butterfly" (Ivana Milicevic), who, it turns out, also happens to be the object of his pursuit. Needless to say, complications ensue, with Butterfly getting Anthony involved in a risky bank robbery.
The filmmakers clearly intend a light-hearted gangster romp, freely mixing lowbrow humor with antic action, but they generally fail on both counts. Despite a series of cameo appearances by a procession of familiar faces -- Frank Gorshin as the "No. 1 doctor in all of Russia", Artie Lange as Anthony's buffoonish pal and, in the requisite lifting from the cast of "The Sopranos", Vincent Pastore as a goodfella who sells designer clothing out of the trunk of his car -- the film is content to simply reprise comedic cliches and squanders the opportunities to be found for genuine humor in the culture clash between the Italian and Russian mobs.
Not helping matters are the mostly ineffectual performances, though Schoot finds some moments of sly humor as the exasperated Ivan, and Milicevic is utterly ravishing as the Russian femme fatale.
Small Planet Pictures
NEW YORK -- The latest in a seemingly endless spate of Mafia-themed comedies, this effort is distinctive only for its extensive location shooting in Moscow. The tale of a hapless would-be tough guy traveling to Russia in pursuit of a mail-order bride who has scammed a series of hapless Americans, including a "family" member, "Mail Order Bride" is ultimately unable to overcome both its amateurish qualities and its overly familiar elements. It is playing an exclusive engagement at Manhattan's Village East Cinema.
Robert Capelli Jr., who also co-directed (with Jeffrey Wolf) and co-wrote the screenplay (with Doug Bollinger and Sergey Konenkov), stars as Anthony Santini, the nephew of mob boss Tony Santini (Danny Aiello). When Tony's "friend" Jackie the Viking (Jackie Martling) is scammed by his beautiful Russian "bride" Nina, he sees a perfect opportunity to get his troublesome nephew out of his hair by sending him to Moscow in pursuit of both the girl and the money. He also finds a way to make money on the proposition -- by placing odds on Anthony's inevitable failure.
In Moscow, Anthony teams up with Ivan (Slava Schoot), the son of Moscow's top mob boss, in pursuit of the elusive Nina. Encountering a city filled with sleazy nightclubs populated by strippers and whores, Anthony soon finds himself falling head over heels with the beautiful "Butterfly" (Ivana Milicevic), who, it turns out, also happens to be the object of his pursuit. Needless to say, complications ensue, with Butterfly getting Anthony involved in a risky bank robbery.
The filmmakers clearly intend a light-hearted gangster romp, freely mixing lowbrow humor with antic action, but they generally fail on both counts. Despite a series of cameo appearances by a procession of familiar faces -- Frank Gorshin as the "No. 1 doctor in all of Russia", Artie Lange as Anthony's buffoonish pal and, in the requisite lifting from the cast of "The Sopranos", Vincent Pastore as a goodfella who sells designer clothing out of the trunk of his car -- the film is content to simply reprise comedic cliches and squanders the opportunities to be found for genuine humor in the culture clash between the Italian and Russian mobs.
Not helping matters are the mostly ineffectual performances, though Schoot finds some moments of sly humor as the exasperated Ivan, and Milicevic is utterly ravishing as the Russian femme fatale.
NEW YORK -- The latest in a seemingly endless spate of Mafia-themed comedies, this effort is distinctive only for its extensive location shooting in Moscow. The tale of a hapless would-be tough guy traveling to Russia in pursuit of a mail-order bride who has scammed a series of hapless Americans, including a "family" member, "Mail Order Bride" is ultimately unable to overcome both its amateurish qualities and its overly familiar elements. It is playing an exclusive engagement at Manhattan's Village East Cinema.
Robert Capelli Jr., who also co-directed (with Jeffrey Wolf) and co-wrote the screenplay (with Doug Bollinger and Sergey Konenkov), stars as Anthony Santini, the nephew of mob boss Tony Santini (Danny Aiello). When Tony's "friend" Jackie the Viking (Jackie Martling) is scammed by his beautiful Russian "bride" Nina, he sees a perfect opportunity to get his troublesome nephew out of his hair by sending him to Moscow in pursuit of both the girl and the money. He also finds a way to make money on the proposition -- by placing odds on Anthony's inevitable failure.
In Moscow, Anthony teams up with Ivan (Slava Schoot), the son of Moscow's top mob boss, in pursuit of the elusive Nina. Encountering a city filled with sleazy nightclubs populated by strippers and whores, Anthony soon finds himself falling head over heels with the beautiful "Butterfly" (Ivana Milicevic), who, it turns out, also happens to be the object of his pursuit. Needless to say, complications ensue, with Butterfly getting Anthony involved in a risky bank robbery.
The filmmakers clearly intend a light-hearted gangster romp, freely mixing lowbrow humor with antic action, but they generally fail on both counts. Despite a series of cameo appearances by a procession of familiar faces -- Frank Gorshin as the "No. 1 doctor in all of Russia", Artie Lange as Anthony's buffoonish pal and, in the requisite lifting from the cast of "The Sopranos", Vincent Pastore as a goodfella who sells designer clothing out of the trunk of his car -- the film is content to simply reprise comedic cliches and squanders the opportunities to be found for genuine humor in the culture clash between the Italian and Russian mobs.
Not helping matters are the mostly ineffectual performances, though Schoot finds some moments of sly humor as the exasperated Ivan, and Milicevic is utterly ravishing as the Russian femme fatale.
- 12/1/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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