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Leapfrog Leapster L-Max in Pink Bundle Leapster L-MaxTM Learning Game System Appropriate For Ages 4 to 10 Years Take learning to the MAX!TM The Leapster L-Max handheld, complete with interactive touch screen, stylus pen and directional pad, allows your child to play action-packed games anywhere – on the go or at home on your TV. Learn to write letters on the L-Max handheld screen – the letters you write will appear on the TV and star i… |
Precious Is A Landmark Triumph
Arts, No Chaser – Precious
Dwight Hobbes
MN Spokesman-Recorder Much as the term “important” is thrown around to hype this or that flick as a profound cinematic achievement, few films merit the distinction. Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire inarguably does, hands down. And, if you don’t go see it, you will find yourself listening over and over to people who went bend your ear out of shape about it. Precious, artfully crafted, is a compelling story told without a wasted word of dialogue, delivered by characters of riveting immediacy. It also carries an incredibly strong message thanks to which you’ll never look at another fat, homely teenage girl the same again. God knows it’s way past time somebody stuck up for young women who are not pretty and shapely. This film does that and more, proving that self-esteem is the heart and soul of one’s salvation. Clarice “Precious” Jones is big as a barn and homely as a mud-fence. This, in the eyes of the world, obscures her humanity of a sensible, sensitive girl who just wants to live life like everybody else. Boys poke fun at her on the street. Other girls are vicious in their contempt. Added to which, her home life is hell: when she isn’t cooking for and cleaning up behind her mother, she’s ducking her mother’s fists and listening to her tell her how worthless she is. Somehow “Precious” keeps the strength to persevere. Against odds that would make many girls just give up, this woman child, who never had a break from day one, is determined to make something of herself. Gabourey Sidibe makes an impressive screen debut as Precious. She brings layers of dimension to a brilliant performance. Mo’Nique departs from her comic image and is absolutely monstrous as the abusive mother, who, sitting around on welfare, watching games shows and feeding her face, would rather drag her daughter down than get off her butt and help the child do better than she did. Paula Patton (Deja Vu, Idlewild) does a fine job as the teacher who steps in and helps Precious fight for herself. In the supporting cast, an ensemble of talented actors play Precious’ classmates, a crew of young ladies who are tough as nails, each with more personality than a little bit. Joann, for one, is a real piece of work. Homegirl, sassy to a tee, is hot as a sunburn and knows it. Which makes it all the more fascinating when this interminable narcissist shows a human side and actually befriends Precious. Xosha Roquemore (Rivers Wash Over Me) is so convincing in the role you want to smack the taste out of her mouth one minute and give her a big hug the next. Word has it Mariah Carey, after falling on her face in the fluffy Glitter, took this part as Precious’ plain-jane social worker to show she’s not just some slice of cheesecake. If that is so, Carey surely has made her case, turning in an understated, most effective turn. Sherri Shepherd goes her one better, though, and is practically incognito, wonderfully deft as the school’s dry, bored to her socks receptionist. Lee Daniels’ directing, while it gets a bit too artsy toward the end distracts some from the climax, is fine. Geoffrey Fletcher’s screenplay is tight, fluid.
One might accuse Sapphire of grandstanding for shoving her name and the novel into the film’s title. She’s earned that right. There’s a rule of thumb that movies, no matter how good they are, don’t quite come up to the quality of the book. If that’s the case here, Push must be one hellified reading experience. Detractors of the film who’ve labeled it blaxploitation come off looking like the south end of a northbound horse. It is a universal saga of one young woman’s indomitable spirit. You are going to find a girl like this in every race and culture around the globe. Congrats to the producers (Tyler Perry, Oprah Winfrey), director, cast, et al for the success of Precious at this year’s awards presentations. It’s about time a winning film won.
About the Author
Twin Cities Daily Planet articles archived at www.tcdailyplanet.net/profiles/dwight-hobbes. Dwight Hobbes has written for ESSENCE, Reader’s Digest, Washington Post, Minneapolis Star Tribune, St. Paul Pioneer Press, City Pages, Mpls/St. Paul, MN Law & Politics, Pulse of the Twin Cities, Twin Cities Daily Planet, Women & Word, San Diego Union-Tribune and Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder (where he contributes the commentary column Something I Said). He’s spoken his mind over National Public Radio, Minnesota Public Radio, Blog Talk Radio’s UNOBSTRUCTED and KMOJ in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Was regularly featured as guest commentator on NewsNight Minnesota (KTCA-Minneapolis/St. Paul) and Spectator (Minneapolis Television Network). His monthly column “Hobbes In The House” in MN Spokesman Recorder speaks to domestic abuse and rape. His plays are Shelter – produced at Mixed Blood Theatre by Pangea World Theater, Dues – produced by Mixed Blood Theatre, University of Southern Illinois in Point of Revue, selected for Bedlam Theatre’s 10-Minute Play Festival and published by Playscripts, Inc. You Can’t Always Sometimes Never Tell – produced by Theater Center Philadelphia, Long Island University, reading at The Kennedy Center and published in the anthology CENTER STAGE, In the Midst – produced by Long Island University, starring Samuel E. Wright. Hobbes spoke on the panel “Farewell To August Wilson” at the Guthrie Theater, broadcast on Conversations With Al McFarlane (KFAI, KMOJ). Singer-songwriter Dwight Hobbes recorded the single “Atlanta Children” (BeatBad Records) and gigged 10 years in the Long Island/NYC area, including The Other End, Kenny’s Castaways and My Fathers Place. He fronted the Boston blues band Midlight. In Minneapolis, Hobbes opened for David Daniels at First Street Entry, James Curry at Terminal Bar, sat in with Yohannes Tona, Alicia Wiley at Sol Testimony’s Soul Jam, The New Congress at Babalu, Willie Murphy at the Viking Bar and Wain McFarlane & Jahz at Lucille’s Kitchen. Dwight Hobbes still drops in at the occasional open mic around town. www.myspace.com/dwighthobbesmusic
