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“Quartet” More Than Just the “Big Game” Gala

Feb 17th

Posted by Dan Culberson in Hotshots Movie Reviews

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“More Than Just ‘The Big Game’ Gala”

“Hotshots” looks at a movie!

Quartet is another in a string of recent movies about colorful, quirky oldtimers, the first film directed by actor Dustin Hoffman, and much more entertaining than you might have expected.

The credit for a large part of that has to go to the cast, which includes Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Billy Connolly, and Michael Gambon.

The film is adapted from the 1999 play written by Oscar-winning screenwriter Donald Harwood, and it takes place in England at Beecham House, a home for retired musicians.

Consequently, the film contains plenty of delightful music, as we encounter many of the residents throughout Beecham House doing what they have done all their professional lives: performing music and singing.

One day a new resident arrives, Jean Horton, played by Maggie Smith, who is so well known that when she walks into the main hall, the residents recognize her and give her a standing ovation.

However, Jean is not as pleased to be there as the other residents are pleased to see her, and at one point she says, “This isn’t a retirement home; this is a madhouse.”

Now, a major plot point is a tired, old hackneyed one:  The retirement home is in financial difficulty, and it needs to raise money to keep it going, which is achieved every year by a so-called Big Gala performance by the residents to which tickets are sold to the public.

However, this year tickets are down by 60 percent, and the musical director has to come up with a great idea in order to increase the ticket sales.

You see, the arrival of Jean means that all four performers of a famous quartet of opera singers who sang together in the Ritoletto opera by Guiseppe Verdi, the most important opera composer of the 19th century, are now staying at the retirement home.

Unfortunately, Jean exclaims that she doesn’t sing anymore, and that is final. But more important, bad blood exists between Jean and another member, Reginald, because they were once married to each other and the marriage ended very badly, so badly that when Reginald learns that Jean now lives there, he wants to move.

Well, you can see where this is going, can’t you?

Quartet is much more than just “The Big Game” gala at the end, and it is funny and also very entertaining.

I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”

AART finds a master of “tole” (decorative) painting, and Russ’s mother

Feb 12th

Posted by Ron Baird, news editor in C1N.TV Network News

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Marley wright was born on the eastern plains of South Dakota during the Great Depression.
Raised on a farm, she learned the importance of hard work and determination. She raised a family,
all the while dreaming of using her artistic skills. She taught herself the skills
of decorative painting, and over the next 30 plus years has become one of the most
recognizable and respected decorative painters in the country.

Russ's mother is a "tole" painter

Russ’s mother is a “tole” painter

Quartet - Movie

Quartet – Movie Trailer

Feb 11th

Posted by Channel 1 Networks in Movie Trailers

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Beecham House is abuzz. The rumor circling the halls is that the home for retired musicians is soon to play host to a new resident. Word is, it’s a star. For Reginald Paget (Tom Courtenay), Wilfred Bond (Billy Connolly) and Cecily Robson (Pauline Collins) this sort of talk is par for the course at the gossipy home. But they’re in for a special shock when the new arrival turns out to be none other than their former singing partner, Jean Horton (Maggie Smith). Her subsequent career as a star soloist, and the ego that accompanied it, split up their long friendship and ended her marriage to Reggie, who takes the news of her arrival particularly hard. Can the passage of time heal old wounds? And will the famous quartet be able to patch up their differences in time for Beecham House’s gala concert?

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