Nola, a movie that pits a substantial actor like Mary McDonnell, playing a New York madam, against a bogus story that crossbreeds noirish affectations and romantic comedy into an unpalatable mush that suggests strawberry ice cream slathered with beer.
-- STEPHEN HOLDEN
"Italy Bangs the Door Shut on the Castaways From Africa"
[Even Gilligan?]
Some things are so nasty, so inhuman, as to receive constituional censure. They cannot be left to the states, where local majorities can overwhelm decent people. This is why the 14th amendment was passed (and part of why the civil war was fought). These evils include: Racism. Sexism. Homosexual marriage.
-- BenK, courageously stupid, oh I mean, misguided