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She became interested in theater and attended Chicago's prestigious Goodman Theatre School for Youth and worked for Geese Theatre Company working in prisons doing drama therapy across the country and internationally.
Ms. Landry was hired into the Second City Chicago National Touring Company in the 90s. She also created the improvisational ensemble Oui Be Negroes...the original African American Impro/Sketch Comedy Theatre Company in The United States.
Her Television and Film credits include numerous industrial and commercial projects, The UPN San Francisco Television show Seriously Unusual Television Network, Raw Music and the Bob Zagone Film "Reads You Like A Book"
Ms. Landry resides in Los Angeles and has been married to her husband Hans Summers since 1991
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A Christmas Story 2 (2012)
Watching this movie will make you want to poke your eye out afterwards
After watching this movie it's official: Both my husband and I are movie masochists:
Him: Christmas Story 2 is on On Demand Me: You *have to be kidding me* Him: Yes. Direct to DVD and now here. Me: No. This is not happening. They did not make a sequel. Him: They sure did. Me: (masochism now kicking in on my end) *Who is playing the dad* Him: Daniel Stern. Me: He played the villain In the Home Alone Movies. Him: He sure did. (both of us stare at each other. The look of horror in our eyes with a look of Movie Masochistic gleam) Me: Yes. Order it.
The parent characters are gutted to the point of disbelief. The hair color of Ralphie is so unrealistic for a person it is beyond comical. They turned him into a bumbling teenage idiot along with his equally idiot friends. If you are waiting for a teenage kid to get his lips stuck on something in bad generated graphics for a "Nod" to to his lips getting stuck to an ice pole? Oh...this movie is for you.
You are completely unconvinced Stern and Travis even like each other as Ralphie's parent. He is completely unlikable as the dad. She looks like she has been popping those 19th nervous breakdown little yellow pills as he blames her for his stupidity.
She catches fish. He loses. fish. He blames her. She goes out and buys fish to cover for being inept with her money she has been getting out the dryer from his pants. Why? because he won't buy them a Turkey.
And we should care about these characters...why? Even when Ralphie gets that *prized car* you still are not fond of this family.
*This family* mind you. This is another Parker family. The Bizzaro World Parker family In Bizzaro Holman Indiana if you wish to be nice.
They even made Valin Shinyei's Randy Parker into a kid you just don't care if he has to go to the dentist instead of sitting on the cold ice fishing with his father.
Every character you loved in the first are now Smug, inept and cartoonish. No evil kids to root against with the green eyes and yellow teeth. One villain who you barely see and...who actually should be reimbursed for Ralphie's mistake.
Unlikable characters. Whose change comes way too late for you to even care that Ralphie got his car.
The cinematography looks like Norman Rockwell on a bad acid trip.
When you get to the point where you know Ralphie bought a new leg lamp for his dad? I applauded cynically to myself and said "Well done writer! You have completely torn apart the original movie right down to this!"
If you wish to be horrified by the pure annihilation of a classic movie? First pick up the remake to Casablanca, then watch Christmas Story 2.
Gold (1972)
Fool's Gold: Worse than Woodstock. Beyond Watching.
I tried to come into this movie with an open mind and an open heart. I wanted to like this movie so much. I wanted to cheer for the counter culture, Northern California where it was shot and the truly inspirational improvisational genius that was Mr. Del Close.
About twenty minutes in I wanted to take my own life. I don't think a pound of weed would have helped that predicament.
There is probably just reasons why this movie was not released in the states until 1996 and has been lost for such a long period of time: It's bad. It's just really bad.
It's not because it was a roof raiser of sociology/political film making that would shake the United States to its core roots if it was shown. It was just bad. From the script, the cinematography, the costuming, the lighting, the sound all the way to its over the top drunken/stoned acting. Even the semi hard/soft sex scenes were so badly done...you would need help from a partner to get excited. A lot of help.
I see the goal: Let's bust open film making to its essential core. Lets deconstruct the idea of making films and screen writing into a possibly slightly improvised attempt. Let's mix era with present day! Let's go after the man! Let's celebrate personal freedom and the counter culture of our generation. Let's get naked! We got the woods, a train, a conductor who doesn't have a western costume wishing he was someplace else...chicks who want to have sex on film, tabs of acid and a camera!
It was done better with Easy Rider. A movie that says "This is what is happening *now*" Not a movie that screams "*How messed up can we get while not getting mud on a camera*"
If you look at any of the people who made it after this movie(without getting gangrenous limbs or an STD filming), they moved on to smarter, political and social material. I have always thought Mr. Close was a genius and I'm happy that he inspired so many great comedians in his day including The Upright Citizens Brigade.
I just can't like crap because I happen to like (as they say in Ed Wood) "Crap with a Star. In the case of Del: "Crap with an Improv Guru"
This poor, sad movie was not an examination of the entire 60's scene. At the very most I can give this movie: It is a full examination of young adults in 1968 who have no idea how to make a movie with the incredible fortune of having a really good music soundtrack. that is half a star. I would buy the music in a heartbeat.
This movie is indeed a cult classic. In the Glen or Glenda realm. It can easily be christened: "The Worst Counter-Culture Film Ever Made". That is the remaining star. People will rent "The Worst Counter-Culture Film Ever Made".
..."Head" is better than this. That is not saying much for "Gold"
Wired (1989)
It's a Horrible Life. On Crack.
I saw this film in the movie theater. I was taking classes at the Second City Chicago and of course the buzz of this movie was intense. It is a Woodward film about one of Second City's Native sons.
Everyone knew about Johns history. Everyone knew how he died. Some even knew that the lore did not make him out to be particularly friendly towards women in improv or comedy.
But hey. the man led his life and he was loved intensely by the people who were in his world, and lore also states that he treated all of his close friends with love and respect.
This movie. Well. Forget the idea of poor Michael Chilklis (who is a really great actor) being in a really astonishingly bad film, and really only relegated to doing an impersonation of the man.
Forget the idea that they could not get the rights to any of Belushi's work...and all the SNL scenes never happened that they portrayed in the movie.
Screw the idea that half of the historical information in the film did not even follow Bob Woodwards work. Kinda saying "Okay...we are about to mess with Belushi...now lets go after Woodward too..." They also decided to take the premise of It's a Wonderful Life and turn it into It's a Horrible Life on Crack.
Is he a guardian angel or the devil? Is the pinball machine the devil's assistant electronic device...how many different endings can you tack onto to a movie? It is one of those movies after it is over...you look at the person you are with and in stunned disbelief go "What the hell was that?!" In some circles this movie has become a kinda cult classic. But for good reason.
A good cult classic you sit around the screen and make fun of (or throw out snappy one liners) to the screen. A cult film is never good. And most people would never watch them in any serious context.
If you want to watch some classic bad late 80's fair stoned? Rent Wired. If you want to know about John Belushi...you can get more information off of the walls of Second City Chicago than this movie.