In a Variety interview discussing Jackie Brown, Lee said: " I'm not against the word ... and I use it, but Quentin is infatuated with the word.

Micky said later that someone at Screen Gems forgot to contact his agent to inform him the series was picked up by NBC ; he wound up learning about his new job by reading the announcement in Variety.

Writing in Variety, Todd McCarthy said the cast ensemble " could not be better "; he praised Spacey's " handling of innuendo, subtle sarcasm and blunt talk " and the way he imbued Lester with " genuine feeling ".

Variety said the film " asks the spectator to believe in the improbable.

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Variety said the film was " at times a gentle, affecting story of star-crossed lovers limited within the fascinating Amish community.

Variety magazine said in 1956 that his Chaplinesque quality made a big contribution to the success of the film.

" Derek Cleverdon, chairman of the Variety Club Children's Charity South West, said Fred was also devoted to charitable causes.

" Variety said, " This is a slow-moving picture whose only action is in the dialog itself.

The New York Times described it as " fantastic fun " and Variety called it " brilliantly caustic ", but the Los Angeles Times called it " snail-slow, shrill and gesticulating " and Newsweek said it was a " sledgehammer satire ".

Variety < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s television reviewer, said: " All six of the principals, especially ( Courteney ) Cox and Schwimmer, appear resourceful and display sharp sitcom skills.

Variety said, " Never has W. Somerset Maugham play been done with greater production values, a better all-around cast or finer direction.

It received a standing ovation whose length Variety said made it " one of the strongest Venice openers in recent memory ".

( In its year-end report, Variety said the film had ranked # 15 at the box office with a gross of $ 3. 5 million.

Variety said the film " stacks up as promising entertainment-with some reservations.

On December 16, Daily Variety reported that the pope had seen the film, and on Dec. 17, Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan reported that John Paul II had said: " It is as it was ," sourcing McEveety, who said he heard it from Dziwisz.

Variety said the film was " consistently funny, though more academic than boulevardier ", and the Christian Science Monitor called it " amazingly funny and poignant ".

In his review for Variety magazine, Todd McCarthy said, " Laura Palmer, after all the talk, is not a very interesting or compelling character and long before the climax has become a tiresome teenager ".

Variety said his performance was " remarkable .. utterly convincing ", USA Today found him " outstanding " while the Los Angeles Times felt he was " reminiscent of Daniel Day-Lewis in My Left Foot, bringing a vibrancy and wit to the role ".

Variety said he hit " all the right notes in a star-powered performance that will amuse, if not amaze, anyone who only knows the actor as Tony Blair or David Frost " while Richard Corliss of Time noted that he " tries bravely to keep a straight face "

The staff at Variety said the film's chief assets were " outstanding performances by its stars and an emotional punch that lingers ... Other cast members are adequate, but roles suffer from editorial cuts ( confirmed by director ) that leave sub-plots dangling.

Variety critic Derek Elley said the film " delivers very likable, if sometimes dramatically wobbly, results ...

Variety said it " drags " but thought it had " perverse interest.

Although the film was exposed as a hoax in Variety in 1976, it became popular in New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Boston.

Although the reviews were generally negative, Knowles earned praise from Variety magazine: " Solange Knowles is nearly as dazzling as big sister Beyoncé and does little more than smile winningly in her first bigscreen outing.

Variety wrote: " Although the setting has been changed from New York to San Francisco for no apparent reason, Leonard Gershe's screen adaptation of his successful Broadway play, is an excellent example of how to switch from one medium to another.

Although Robert Silliphant is the credited writer, the original story was written by his younger brother, Allan Silliphant, who went on to produce, write and direct the 3-D adult feature film The Stewardesses ( 1969 ) ( under the name Al Silliman Jr .), the only micro-budget film of the 1960s or 1970s to become the # 1 film on the weekly Variety box-office chart ( it finally grossed over $ 140, 000, 000 in 2011 U. S. dollars ).

Although Glenn Lovell of Variety called the film a " bracing, beautifully shot upstart drama ," he observed, " It's a safe bet ... won't win over the Far and Away date crowd.

Noted reviewer Graham Greene was effusive that this was Capra's finest film to date, describing Capra's treatment as " a kinship with his audience, a sense of common life, a morality ..." Variety noted " a sometimes too thin structure the players and director Frank Capra have contrived to convert (...) into fairly sturdy substance.

" However Derek Elley in Variety thought it " Manages to sustain its single-joke premise ... over feature length.

Variety described the premise: " Lobo is a seven-foot tall, blue-skinned, indestructible and heavily muscled anti-hero who drives a pimped out motorcycle, and lands on Earth in search of four fugitives who are bent on wreaking havoc.

Variety Magazine wrote that "' Mobsters ' resembles a cart-before-the-horse case of putting marketing ahead of filmmaking, as the seemingly can't-miss premise of teen-heartthrob gangsters gets lost in self-important direction, a shoddy script and muddled storytelling ".

The show's premise was derived from a sketch from The State called " The Mr. and Former Mrs. Laupin Variety Program ", and the show featured many people who were a part of the comedy troupe.

Brian Lowry of Variety said, " As muddled in most respects as its title, Rumor Has It ... begins with an intriguing premise ... but it devolves into a bland romance spiced with too little comedy ...

Todd McCarthy in Variety magazine wrote, " One of the film's indisputable triumphs is its soundtrack, which mixes Carter Burwell's original score with classic pop tunes and some fabulous covers.

Variety labeled Night of the Living Dead an " unrelieved orgy of sadism " and questioned the " integrity and social responsibility of its Pittsburgh-based makers ".

Even at the time of its release, Variety noted that the " story bespeaks authority in detail, obviously explained by the fact that Capt.

In a review, Variety magazine attributed its massive success to Astaire's presence: " The main point of Flying Down to Rio is the screen promise of Fred Astaire ...

Variety reported that the producers were looking for a " faithful adaptation " of the novel, and " consider its theme of finite ecological resources particularly timely.

Variety praised the film's documentary style and the Los Angeles Times praised its seriousness, though it also found " certain subversive elements.

The staff at Variety magazine wrote of the film, " Trademark of John Ford's direction is clearly stamped on the film with its shadowy lights, softly contrasted moods and measured pace, but a tendency is discernible towards stylization for stylization's sake.

Late Show with David Letterman has been nominated as Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series for its entire 16 season run from the 1993-94 season through the 2008-09 season.

Also located downtown are: Ambrosia Vae Baby Boutique, The Pink Paisley Poppy Emporium, Pub 21 ( named for its address of 21 North Main Street ), Main Street Cafe, Uni-Q Jewelry Store, Finders Keepers Variety Store, Smoke-Cessories ( offering a wide variety of novelty items and legal tobacco alternatives as well as a hookah lounge ), Three Rivers Masonic Temple, Sherwin-Williams, Second Wind Furniture, Three Rivers Chamber of Commerce, and Fabrications, a custom screen-printing and embroidery shop.

" Todd McCarthy of Variety wrote " An exceptionally tasty contempo comedic romance, ' Jerry Maguire ' runs an unusual pattern on its way to scoring an unexpected number of emotional, social and entertaining points.

Todd McCarthy of Variety called the film " a sporadically amusing but listless thriller that wears its humorous, romantic and political components like mismatched articles of clothing.

The two-hour Wonderful World of Disney special garnered an estimated 60 million viewers, giving the network its highest ratings in the time period in 16 years, and won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Art Direction for a Variety or Music Program

India, for example, includes an interpretation of farmers ' rights in its Plant Variety Protection and Farmers ' Rights Act, allowing farmers a restricted right to save and sell seed they have produced on-farm as they always have, even if it contains genes from a protected variety.,

For the 2009 film Sherlock Holmes, " The Daily Variety " reported that Zimmer purchased an out-of-tune piano for 200 dollars and used it throughout the scoring process because of its " quirkiness ".

Variety praised its " gutsy vitality ", and praised the production of Reisz and the directorial feature début of Anderson, who " brings the keen, observant eye of a documentary man to many vivid episodes without sacrificing the story line.

Variety claimed the film was " low budget in the worst sense — with no apparent talent or intelligence to offset its technical inadequacies — Friday the 13th has nothing to exploit but its title.

" Variety wrote: " Undone by its best intentions, I Am Sam is an especially insipid example of the Hollywood message movie.

The phrase also appears in the January 13, 1928, issue of Variety, " Mickeyfinning isn't describable, but it's easily worked, leaving its victims miserable.

Cynthia Littleton, writing for Variety in 1998, summarized the ratings the series was receiving at the end of its sixth season: " Deep Space Nine may not go out on as high a Nielsen note as Next Generation, which wrapped a hugely successful run in 1994, but DS9 is hardly floundering.

The show played its final performance on January 31, 2010, after a two-year run, and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Special in 2011.

Variety credited Hull's performance: " the slightly balmy aunt who wants to have Elwood committed, is immense, socking the comedy for every bit of its worth.

This has been restored to its moorish splendour and now provides an eclectic programme of events from opera to " Black Variety Nights ".