" Baba tritely replies, "You're still young, why get involved in such a mess?
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Tanya (Ella Dershowitz) is a 27-year-old working-class single mother; to underline her status, Ms. Gionfriddo has her wearing, a bit tritely, the serving-wench outfit of a novelty restaurant on the New Jersey shore.
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According to one reviewer, "Tritely tagged 'emo' by writers everywhere, the Omaha Sound is as varied and complex as the 'Athens Sound'."Holder, E. (2003) "Heartbroken Penmanship: A Brief History Of All Things Cursive ". Flagpole, 9/24/03. Retrieved 6/7/07.
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These four actresses ignite the screen with so much power and charisma that one yearns for more ensemble scenes." Peter Stack of the San Francisco Chronicle described it as "fitful, tritely amusing" and "filled with little but empty gestures, contrivance and jokes that fizzle." He added, "Still, the movie, for all its imploding moments and artificial dialogue, is surprisingly well-acted, its characters given a chance by director David Anspaugh to be vital, almost as if the actors went to extraordinary pains to overcome the lame script." In The Washington Post, Desson Howe said the film "skitters somewhere between mildly diverting and lukewarm . . .
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" Charles Tatum from eFilmCritic gave the film 2/5 stars, stating that the film was entertaining, with good direction, and felt that it had an interesting idea. However, Tatum noted that the film "shows classic symptoms of post-production tampering", which greatly reduced its effectiveness. Writing in The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia, academic Peter Dendle said, "The movie features strong conceptual underpinnings, though it's a little dragged down by the tritely over-demonized foes." TV Guide gave the film a negative 1/4 stars, writing, "wastes so much time filling in details of the cadaver squadron it seems longer than the Battle of Gettysburg.
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In seventeenth-century Paris, poet and supreme swordsman Cyrano de Bergerac (José Ferrer) stops a play from being shown because he ostensibly cannot stand the bombastic style of the principal actor, Montfleury (Arthur Blake). An annoyed aristocratic fop, the Vicomte de Valvert (Albert Cavens), provokes him into a duel by tritely insulting Cyrano's enormous nose. Cyrano first mocks his lack of wit, improvising numerous inventive ways in which Valvert could have phrased it (much to the amusement of the audience). He then composes a ballade for the occasion on the spot and recites it during the sword fight.
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The birth of NAFEC came after the 2009 dissolution of the premier FEC trade association the International Association for the Leisure and Entertainment Industry (IALEI) and subsequent merger with IAAPA. This new organization was started with many industry recognized and award-winning businesses and vendors. Some of those people include board members Jay Tritely from Alley Cats, Arlington TX, Jarett Waite from Laser Mania Family Fun Center, St. George, UT, Jarett Waite - 2010 Operator of the Year Davor Franicevich from Laser Tag of Baton Rouge, Laser Tag of New Orleans Davor Franicevich - 2009 Operator of the Year The ILTA is the internationally recognized expert on laser tag and all things related to laser tag. A majority of the ILTA members are FECs and their reach into the international FEC market has been extensive since their first trade show exhibit in 2010.
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Reviewing the original production, The Bulletin said "the dramatic cliches and tortuous contrivings that go with resolving the situations are rather less than bearable, and the scene wherein Scobie recovers his manhood and Max reveals his yellow streak must be one of the most preposterous bits of hoo-ha served to an audience for many a day." The Sydney Morning Herald said the play "ran a wayward course through melodramatic shallows" and "had an entertaining enough adventure yarn to tell, but Mr Pullan seemed unable to develop the issues of his intriguing first act in a rich way through the stationary second, and then abandoned adventure to turn his third act into a much too rapid_, much too tritely tremulous, much too improbable study of a wrecked man's redemption into full and confident manhood." The paper's reviewer added that the "dialogue had the surface fluency to be expected of an experienced hand in day-to-dsy radio writing, but the play...had something of radio's way of forcing over-heated dramatics into situations that could seem more plausible if allowed to generate more stealthily." The Age said the play was "undistinguished" with "some of the most predictable action ever seen on stage".
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