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	Breakfast of Champions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday is a 1973 novel by the American author Kurt Vonnegut.
		The novel's name, originally from the well-known slogan for the Wheaties breakfast cereal, comes from a key scene late in the novel when a waitress says she, apparently ironically, says "Breakfast of Champions" each time she serves a customer a martini.
		In the preface, Vonnegut obviously recited advice from lawyers as he noted meticulously that Breakfast of Champions is a registered trademark of General Mills, Inc. for its Wheaties breakfast cereal products, and that his use of the term did not serve as an endorsement or disparagement of their fine products.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Breakfast_of_Champions (500 words)

	Ziggy's Video Realm: Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions (1999) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Breakfast of Champions is a very surreal film, to say the least, and not a viewing experience either for the timid or for those without very open minds.
		Whether or not the film is likable is completely a matter of taste and tolerance for surreal oddity and philosophy, and that is fine; but that is not to say that there is no talent or real redeeming value here.
		Breakfast of Champions, however, may be one of those that truly is impossible to fully realize with a camera and film.
	www.reelcriticism.com /ziggyrealm/reviews/breakfastofchampions.html (1376 words)

	Salon \| Thin gruel for Vonnegut fans
		The film "Breakfast of Champions" misses the point: What "Bokononists" love is Father Kurt's smart anti-intellectualism.
		With "Slaughterhouse-Five" in 1969 and "Breakfast of Champions" in 1973, his work became the object of academic scrutiny.
		With this latest film, Rudolph has taken "Breakfast of Champions" all too seriously, turning the sort of insouciant love that once fueled Vonnegut scholarship into a brow-furrowed faith in Vonnegut the great artist.
	www.salon.com /books/feature/1999/10/08/breakfastofchamps/print.html (1272 words)

	Skip over this 'Breakfast' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		After all, the job of movie reviewers is to watch the film no matter how awful it is. They get paid to watch a film from beginning to end (not until they feel they have seen enough) and it is their duty to inform the public of why the movie is wonderful or horrible.
		However, some of the critics watching "Breakfast of Champions" decided that no amount of money was worth watching the film in its entirety, since almost a third left 30 minutes into the screening.
		While waiting for the nonexistent plot to kick into "Breakfast of Champions," viewers are faced with MTV-like editing, strobe lights and numerous other "hip and new" editing techniques that probably were used merely in the hope that they themselves could keep the audience awake.
	www.usc.edu /student-affairs/dt/V138/N14/02-skip.14d.html (437 words)

	Breakfast of Champions
		I found "Breakfast of Champions" surprisingly entertaining and hilarious with a lot of philosophical depth (not appropriate for kids though, as it makes fun of a lot of serious topics.) Like all of Vonnegut's work this film is much more than the summary of its plot, which centers on Bruce Willis' character's mental breakdown.
		I absolutely do not agree with those who off-handedly bashed the film to pieces as there was a great deal of thought and even love put into this film, and the fact that some find it incomprehensible does not mean that it isn't, only that they are incapable of understanding and appreciating it.
		In regards to all the criticisms, the film is clear without the narration and the performances are SUPPOSED to be flat, which echoes the theme of the film.
	blog.markwshead.com /info2/Breakfast-of-Champions.html (5926 words)

	Review: Breakfast of Champions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Breakfast of Champions ventures into the territory occupied by two recent, vastly superior efforts - Todd Solondz's Happiness and Sam Mendes' American Beauty.
		Breakfast of Champions' silver lining is Nick Nolte, who is wonderful as the paranoid lingerie-lover who eventually lets it all out in the open.
		Breakfast of Champions is a spectacular failure - a cinematic Titanic that springs a leak during the opening credits and takes a seeming eternity before it finally bottoms out.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/b/breakfast_champions.html (891 words)

	JoBlo reviews the movie "Breakfast of Champions"
		I personally enjoyed the film on the level in which it was obviously meant to be taken...a spiritually enlightening chemically-induced psychedelic soul searching vehicle, in which many people seem to float through the floors, see images of paradise reflecting from the mirrors, death looming, and bubble with overly fake enthusiasm/depression.
		I also enjoyed the style of the film which was basically its only actual film component, seeing that the substance was only to be discovered through two highly enriched characters named Mary Jane and Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.
		Anyway, BREAKFAST was better as a book than as a movie, but taken by itself the film is a lot more interesting and entertaining than the average Hollywood melodrama.
	www.joblo.com /breakfastofchampions.htm (1422 words)

	Xiibaro Reviews: The Legend of 1900, Breakfast of Champions, and Relax ... It's Just Sex
		Breakfast of Champions is one of those rather insane comedies that could find hatred from most, but could also be liked by few.
		The moral of the story is encompassed in a hellish environment, a fact which calls for the film to be directed in a style that could never be seen as heavenly.
		The film is merely about that which happens to some friends, all brought together by a straight friend in marital turmoil (Tilly).
	xiibaro.hypermart.net /archive/01/40.html (1441 words)

	Movie Photos: Breakfast of Champions
		Glenne Headly in Breakfast of Champions - 9/99
		Albert Finney in Breakfast of Champions - 9/99
		Lukas Haas in Breakfast of Champions - 9/99
	www.allmoviephoto.com /photo/1999_Breakfast_of_Champions_photo.html (194 words)

	Breakfast of Champions Screenplay - Afterword
		It was my first feature film, and I had been given complete control of it.
		It was a book filled with humor but light on scenes and action, a book whose climax had its main character going berserk, rubbing his homosexual son's face to a pulp on a piano keyboard, and generally beating up all the people around him who cared for him the most.
		It was the kind of passage that you know can never make its way into any kind of film adaptation, and I was surprised when Kurt told me that the film's director, George Roy Hill, had actually tried to include it.
	www.paulgolding.us /boc/boc4.html (1003 words)

	village voice > film > 'Guinevere'; 'Breakfast of Champions' by Amy Taubin
		Rea is convincing as a romantic, alcoholic wreck, but he lacks the narcissistic blinders that would allow Connie to repeat the same relationship with a half dozen women.
		As a director, Wells is too conventional for her own material, and much of the time the film plays like soap opera.
		How we've substituted icons and tacky television commercials for real life is part of the horror that Breakfast of Champions tries to deal with.
	www.villagevoice.com /film/9938,taubin,8448,20.html (624 words)

	Film & TV: Breakfast of Champions (Austin Chronicle . 11-08-99)
		But one thing they should have been aware of is the problem inherent in transplanting the film's time period to the present.
		Vonnegut's visions are so much a part of the times which they describe that to take Breakfast of Champions from its early Seventies backdrop is to nullify its prescience and satire.
		You'll have to wade through a lot of dull repetition in the latter half of the film, but if you choose to miss the sight of Nick Nolte in a red negligee, you have only your own conscience to answer to.
	weeklywire.com /ww/11-08-99/austin_screens_film4.html (451 words)

	Harrison Bergeron - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However, thanks to their concentration handicaps, once it is all over, they forget what exactly it was that had caused so much excitement.
		The story was adapted into a TV film in 1995 starring Sean Astin.
		It was first published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 1961, and is collected in Welcome to the Monkey House.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harrison_Bergeron (458 words)

	breakfast051999
		Breakfast of Champions had its U.S. premiere last weekend at the Seattle International Film Festival where an enormous crowd (some ticket-holders had to be turned away) descended upon the city's recently revamped Cinerama theater.
		Those who were lucky enough to see the film were also treated to a post-screening Q&A with Rudolph and the film's two biggest stars, Bruce Willis and Nick Nolte, who showed up in a pair of his trademark pajamas and bathrobe.
		Rudolph is also quick to note that his Breakfast of Champions veers away from the original, but that Vonnegut himself, who has a small cameo in the film, approves.
	movies.go.com /moviesdynamic/story?id=606160&print=true (845 words)

	1999 Toronto International Film Festival Daily Update #10 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		There's nothing wrong with the acting in Breakfast of Champions (in fact, Nolte is outstanding), but the flat characterization is a problem, as is the plot.
		I will be up front about two things: this is the best film I have seen this year (to date) and a significant portion of the film-going population will not be able to sit through the entire movie.
		The film tells the story of Ashitaka, a warrior afflicted with a curse who travels far from his homeland in a quest for the fabled God of the Forest.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /tiff99/tiff10.html (1812 words)

	World of Owen at Wilson-Brothers.com
		Breakfast of Champions, the dark comedy from America’s premier novelist Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., has been a project of passion for Alan Rudolph since he first read the novel back in the ‘70s.
		My goal in making this film, however, is to show emotion in an honest, behavioral fashion—so, even though things might be funny, they need to be portrayed as being organic and truthful—with a realistic point of view.
		I think ‘Breakfast of Champions’ is about organized confusion, and I consider Wayne to be the spiritual conscience, if you will, of all the madness.
	www.wilson-brothers.com /owen/bocprodnote.html (6466 words)

	AboutFilm.Com - Breakfast of Champions - User Comments
		No, I haven't read the book, but I have many friends who are big fans of the book (though none of them has seen the film) and tell me that it's one of their favorites.
		I do think you should go ahead and rent the film on video when it comes out (and it will!), especially as you may be more amenable to its tone than I was.
		I did think the film was ghastly, but it also has its supporters, few though they may be.
	www.aboutfilm.com /movies/b/breakfastofchamp-cmt.htm (372 words)

	Breakfast of Champions : Misty Tosh : Restaurants - Centerstage Chicago
		Breakfast was always the highlight of my soap opera-fueled days as a kid.
		These days, I usually delight in a bit of crunchy granola with Greek yogurt (Fage is king) and fresh berries or nice bowl of steel cut oatmeal with brown sugar (the version at Victory's Banner rocks) and I can't even imagine stuffing down that sort of monstrosity of a meal at 8 a.m.
		But the breakfast that's closer to my heart is a compact dish called the Harold ($6.75).
	centerstage.net /restaurants/articles/raving-dish-fourmoon.html (666 words)

	BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS - Critic Review...CinemaReview.com....Movie Reviews, Movie Contents, Moviegoer Opinions and Much ...
		The film is essentially Dwayne's story, but too often Rudolph goes on distracting tangents with the eccentric peripheral players that one often wonders what the point is.
		Unlike American Beauty (a film that Breakfast resembles in more than a few ways, to its great detriment), there isn't any palpably earnest undercurrent that would prepare the audience for the big shift.
		As such, the cartoony characters fail to win a sympathy that needs to be earned; and the film attempts, to no avail, to reach a profundity that it doesn't deserve.
	www.cinemareview.com /critics.asp?movieid=109916 (677 words)

	The Stranger - Film - Feature - An Experimental 'Breakfast'
		A total failure is a film that should be avoided at all costs (movies like Flawless, or anything by Joel Schumacher), whereas Rudolph's Breakfast of Champions really ought to be seen.
		The story, like most of Vonnegut's work, is a playful look at serious issues: pollution, the threat of extinction, existential questions of self, etc. Bruce Willis plays Wayne Hoover, a small-town celebrity trusted by the masses because he's on TV (in hilariously low-rent commercials for his car dealership).
		A producer of the film, Willis was obviously interested in examining the false face of celebrity, and the fact that this movie was made while his marriage to Demi Moore was falling apart only adds depth to his role.
	www.thestranger.com /seattle/Content?oid=2834 (335 words)

	Honolulu Star-Bulletin Features
		Martin Denny, the well known "King of Exotica" music, will be honored at the Hawaii premiere of the film "Breakfast of Champions," which features 14 of his songs, on Nov. 12 in a Hawaii International Film Festival event.
		The Denny songs on the "Breakfast of Champions" soundtrack include "Coronation," "Quiet Village," "Flamingo," "Similiu," "Siboney," "Escoles," "Song of the Bayou," "Strangers in Paradise," and his original music, "Exotica," "Forbidden Island," "Oro (God of Vengeance)," "Cobra," "Jungle Madness" and "Hypnotique." The soundtrack is available on Capitol Records.
		The film, which is rated PG-13, is directed by Alan Rudolph and distributed by Buena Vista.
	starbulletin.com /1999/11/01/features/story2.html (418 words)

	The Honolulu Advertiser \| Island Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		As if it were not enough that ticket sales for the Hawaii International Film Festival are up so far compared to last year, organizers have sweetened their offerings with some major late additions.
		New to the schedule are a tribute to pioneering musician Martin Denny, and screenings of “Breakfast of Champions” on Oahu and the popular “Snow Falling on Cedars” on the Big Island.
		“Breakfast of Champions”: For folks who can’t get enough of Denny’s tunes, his music makes up almost the entire soundtrack of the new movie “Breakfast of Champions.” The dark comedy featuring a star-studded cast Bruce Willis, Albert Finney, Nick Nolte and Barbara Hershey, among others — will get a special screening 9:30 p.m.
	the.honoluluadvertiser.com /1999/Nov/09/islandlife2.html (552 words)

	Breakfast of Champions (1999)
		Sometimes undeniably adolescent in its humour, Vonnegut's recurrent theme is the lamentation of a universe that is either wholly indifferent or seemingly cruelly arranged against he and his characters.
		And the result is a film that tries to be a satire without giving an audience any clear idea of what it is satirizing.
		And as a film it reduces the works of one of America's greatest living satirists to ham-fisted farce that is barely only one step above custard-pie slapstick.
	www.moria.co.nz /sf/breakfastchamps.htm (817 words)

	Neil Jordan dishes out familiar themes, but this is no Breakfast of champions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		As in his earlier film, Jordan sets his story in a politically charged Ireland, shoehorns in pop hits from the ’50s and ’60s, and features a transgendered character in a key role.
		But by this point in the film, we are completely frustrated with Kitten’s lack of agency; it seems all he does is run into attractive men who want to whisk him away to a different life.
		In the most inspiring scene in the film, the more “normal” Laurence and Charlie decline to enter a town dance after Kitten and Irwin are shunned.
	maroon.uchicago.edu /voices/articles/2006/01/05/neil_jordan_dishes_o.php (1118 words)

	Rotten Tomatoes Forums - Breakfast of Champions
		Then viewing Breakfast Of Champions must be one of the most hideous, torturous experiences one can suffer through....I will stay far away.
		Film: crapola, with 3 or 4 decent parts, all involving Finney (who was the one and ONLY correct casting decision.
		It did prompt me to reread Breakfast of Champions for about the 100th time, so I'll give it credit for that.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /vine/showthread.php?t=156834 (900 words)

	Rosetta Books - Breakfast of Champions - About The Movie
		When Kurt Vonnegut´s Breakfast of Champions finally made it to the screen in 1999 -- directed by Alan Rudolph and starring its producer, Bruce Willis -- it had been in some stage of development as a film for almost 25 years.
		Robert Altman was to have made the film, and he apparently intended to do it at some point after he finished Buffalo Bill and the Indians, with which he followed up his triumphant 1975 film Nashville.
		The film finally came together under the direction of Rudolph, who had drafted the screenplay when he was Altman´s protegé in the 1970s and is now a respected independent director himself (Choose Me, Afterglow).
	www.rosettabooks.com /pages/title_29_48.html (417 words)

	CyberSignal Reviews
		And of Vonnegut's books, Breakfast of Champions is one of the strangest, both in style and content.
		So you see, Breakfast of Champions is a movie that's absolutely filled to the brim with really strange people all running headlong into conflict with one another.
		But Breakfast of Champions takes a surreal approach, and by the end of the film that surreality is so thick and heavy that our suspension of disbelief is strained to its breaking point.
	www.tcnj.edu /~signal/articles/features/1999/genzano_10-19.html (914 words)

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