![]() ![]() Sheila McCarthy ("I Heard the Mermaids Singing") is wasted as Ella's disapproving mother, but Kane hits one out of the park as the strict and severe spinster Baggoli (kudos also due to costumer David C. Adam Garcia ("Coyote Ugly") gives an overly broad performance as Lola's hero Stu Wolff, perhaps to lessen the reality of an alcohol abusing rock star within this little girl's fantasy film. Headly's laid back performance almost makes her disappear amidst the chaos, but McCamus injects some warmth as Lola's dad, who shadows her while she traipses about the city on concert night. Pill, so fabulous in "Pieces of April," is OK here as a voice of reason who gradually comes out of her shell under Lola's influence, but the script forces her to be a bit of a wet blanket. Lohan is a likeable young actress who gets an opportunity to show off her singing and dancing talents here, but her enthusiasm fails to spark this dreadful film. (Seeing as how Lola apparently loves her dad, this is an odd choice for her to make, to say the least.) Lola's egocentric view of the world also means that any real sense of family life is unaccounted for her and her obvious romantic interest merely stands around and smiles a lot. Lola makes one elaboration that comes back to haunt her, covering her parents' split with a romantic story of her father's death. The drama queen angle is only intermittently played for middling laughs, all mother Karen's (Glenne Headly, "Dick Tracy") for her wry play-by-plays over the telephone to ex-husband Calum (Tom McCamus). She befriends those who will not outshine her, but is magnanimous to those whom she betters. ![]() Otherwise, only Carol Kane ("Addams Family Values") provides entertainment with her odd but sweet drama teacher, Miss Baggoli, a woman whose appearance may be stuck in the 1940s, but whose directorial predilection is to modernize "Pygmalion." Screenwriter Gail Parent (TV's "Payne") makes her heroine a highly competitive individual whose exploits must be believed by others to give them any weight. Maybe this movie will find an audience in children young enough to be entertained by bright colors. Director Sara Sugarman ("Very Annie Mary") has delivered a teen film that is shrill, numbing and painful to sit through. Lola's outlandish adventures spur Carla to brand her a liar as the duo battle over the lead in the school play and invitations to the after show party of Sidarthur's last concert in "Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen." Laura: Disney is promoting "Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen" by associating it with last year's delightful "Freaky Friday" remake, but the only similarity between the two films is star Lindsay Lohan. On her first day at Dellwood High, Lola finds a friend in the straight and unpopular but fellow Sidarthur enthusiast Ella (Alison Pill, "Pieces of April"), makes an enemy in clique queen Carla Santini (Megan Fox), whose father is Sidarthur lead singer Stu Wolff's lawyer, and attracts an admirer in Sam (Eli Marienthal, "American Pie"). Maybe one day I'll even get some fairy lights and feed them into the walls for working antique lights.When Mary Cep (Lindsay Lohan, "Freaky Friday") discovers her mother is moving the family from her beloved Manhattan to New Jersey, first she freaks out, then she renames herself Lola to gild her theatrical presence for her new, drabber surroundings. Ooh, and finally have an excuse to get those little miniature candelabras at Michael's. And I could put together a bunch of simple bookshelves and collect miniature books to stock them. Make the rails out of skewers and hot glue. Why not have a little raised circle bit in the middle or off to one side, with a semi spiral staircase and a rail? I bet I could pull it off if I bothered to measure and pattern correctly. And even though it's my first, I kinda feel like being a little ambitious. I ideally want to keep things modular so I can eventually add on more rooms or maybe even a second story. And scrapbook paper and popsicle sticks and that kinda thing. And faux wood grain surface sticker sheets from Daiso. It's a good thing I have so much foamcore and exxxtra thicc art boards left over from college. Like that whole gothic faux-Victorian horror aesthetic from 90s-early 2000s manga, like Rozen Maiden, or like the little shop in Hong Kong from the first Cardcaptor Sakura movie. My plan is to use them to furnish my first real attempt at a scale diorama!! Like a dusty, creepy, mysterious, 신비로운 shop in some dark little alleyway where you meet a pair of little twin bunny girls with piercing red eyes who just giggle at you. These are the two full Re-Ment sets I got. ![]()
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