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	Get Shorty (1995) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Get Shorty is a movie to sit back and enjoy for the ensemble of casting in it.
		Danny De Vito, as always, is a fine actor who, despite his small stature, can fill a big screen as the big star of the moment in Hollywood in "Get Shorty." This movie is Goodfellas meets LA Confidential.
		Travolta is a superb actor, second to none and "Get Shorty" is a clever, well-acted movie worth keeping for a second look because it is such a pleasure to watch the first time.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0113161 (837 words)

	Encyclopedia: Get Shorty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Get Shorty is a novel by American novelist Elmore Leonard, first published in 1990, and a movie adaptation of the same name, released in 1995.
		Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
		Get Shorty is one of those hidden gems, a film that I had never seen and really wasn't all that interested in seeing until Be Cool perked my interest, and now I am hooked.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Get-Shorty (1502 words)

	Facts about topic: (Get Shorty) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Get Shorty is a novel by American novelist Elmore Leonard (United States writer of thrillers (born in 1925)) first published in 1990.
		The novel Be Cool (additional info and facts about Be Cool), published in 1999, is a sequel to Get Shorty.
		Production began in 2003 to turn it into a motion picture (A form of entertainment that enacts a story by a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement), which was released on March 4, 2005.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/ge/get_shorty.htm (717 words)

	Nathan Wolfson's revied of "Get Shorty"
		Get Shorty, now playing locally, is at least a partial example of this danger.
		Get Shorty uses the interplay of part of it's plot and a discussion about the same series of events by the characters in the film (in the context of creating a movie) to similarly move the story along.
		And, when one of the characters is slow to catch on (for example, in the interrupted discussion between Zimm and Palmer the evening of their first encounter), this lack of savvy becomes the source of a joke.
	www.nathanwolfson.com /scholarship/shorty.htm (1274 words)

	Get Shorty (1995): Reviews
		One of the pleasures of Get Shorty is watching the way the plot moves effortlessly from crime to the movies - not a long distance, since both industries are based on fear, greed, creativity and intimidation.
		Get Shorty is exquisitely cast, with droll, well-nuanced performances.
		Get Shorty's assortment of lowlifes and high rollers is a familiar one, but it's still deeply satisfying.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/getshorty (752 words)

	Get Shorty: Special Edition (1995)
		Get Shorty appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 1.85:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
		He gets into locations, story issues and changes made along the way, the cast and their work, and some technical topics.
		Get Shorty is a moderately amusing diversion and a pretty good DVD, but nothing here ever becomes genuinely special.
	www.dvdmg.com /getshorty.shtml (2178 words)

	Newsweek.MSNBC.com - Weekend
		The golden age of the big-screen closet is a distant memory for many of today's media-savvy filmgoers—a sort of mythical period wedged somewhere inbetween "The Honeymooners" and the rise of transvestite talk show hosts.
		As he and Judith get to know one another, they silently come to the same conclusion: their futures are bound to be better than their pasts.
		The '60s were in full flower, and the line between what was crazy and what was sane was getting blurry for a lot of people, especially a confused teenager who had just attempted to take her own life.
	www.msnbc.com /m/nw/a/m/mv_g.asp (4183 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Get Shorty (xhtml) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		They all scheme to get "Shorty" into their picture, and the movie's single best scene is one where Travolta gives DeVito acting lessons in how to look filled with menace.
		One of the tactile pleasures of "Get Shorty" is the dialogue.
		In "Get Shorty," it sings in counterpoint to the plotting, which is so complex it gets funny, especially after $300,000 is put into a locker at the airport and everyone wants it, but the FBI has it staked out.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19951020/REVIEWS/510200303/1023 (704 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Get Shorty at Epinions.com
		Leonard is not going to get bogged down with a lot of technical talk and glossy language.
		He is a thug based in Miami but he gets a gig from the wife of a dry cleaner who staged his own death.
		He figures he can use Zimm to get his foot in the door and then he can do it on his own.
	www.epinions.com /content_136673922692 (1020 words)

	GET SHORTY
		With a wonderful cast and a brilliant script GET SHORTY is one of the best comedies to come out of Hollywood in a long time.
		Adapted from an Elmore Leonard novel, GET SHORTY is the tale of a shylock (money-collector) for the mob with a passion for the movies.
		More about movies than the mob, GET SHORTY is one of the most clever and biting send-ups of filmmaking to make it to the screen.
	crazy4cinema.com /Review/FilmsG/f_getshorty.html (751 words)

	Deep Discount DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		As everyone knows, the best background for the motion picture industry is the criminal underworld, and Chili is smoothly launched into the life of a producer: romancing a B-movie scream queen, schmoozing superstars, getting reservations in the hottest restaurants in town.
		Add in a group of angry drug smugglers and there is an abundance of double- and triple-crosses, as well as plenty of wisecracks and Hollywood insider jokes.
		GET SHORTY crosses the line of life imitating art--and vice versa--many times, including the real Ernest "Chili" Palmer (on whom the character is based) playing a Mafia henchman.
	www.deepdiscountdvd.com /dvd.cfm?itemID=MGD906036 (148 words)

	Get Shorty/ Be Cool - Rotten Tomatoes
		Currently, there are not enough Tomatometer critic reviews for Get Shorty/ Be Cool to receive a rating.
		GET SHORTY: This slick adaptation of Elmore Leonard's 1990 novel features John Travolta as Chili Palmer, a Miami loan shark who's been sent to L.A. to collect on a bad debt from trash movie producer Harry Zimm (Gene Hackman), the maker of the stunning flops GROTESQUE and SLIME PEOPLE.
		But this is Harry's lucky day, because Chili is also a film buff, and when he’s done talking tough he starts pitching Harry a script idea.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/get_shorty_be_cool (327 words)

	Get Shorty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Get Shorty is so thoroughly engaging I feel like I won this trip to Hollywood, slightly askew, and got to witness the glitzy town in full blown overdress.
		Get Shorty is an adaptation of the Elmore Leonard novel.
		Amidst that the wonderful humor there is a constant undercurrent of danger emphasized by some sudden, unexpected violence that reminds the viewer that Get Shorty along with its hilarity is actually looking at elements of the bizarre reality of Hollywood.
	www.filmsondisc.com /laserreview/GetShorty.htm (535 words)

	Metroactive Art \| Get Shorty
		What gets him there is the pursuit of a hustler who has faked his death and skipped Miami with the insurance money his wife collects.
		Like The Maltese Falcon, Get Shorty is practically a page-by-page shoot of the book (about the only thing screenwriter Scott Frank and director Barry Sonnenfeld bring to the party is the good judgment as to which pages to leave out, but that's enough).
		The Shorty of the title is one of the two guys who could play the part.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/10.19.95/shorty-9542.html (638 words)

	Blogcritics Comments on Get Shorty
		The really important thing about "Get Shorty" the movie, is it was one of the first, and most successful to translate Elmore Leonard's book to the screen.
		If you liked "Get Shorty", check "Out of Sight" and "Jackie Brown", and start reading Elmore Leonard's books, though the sequel to "Get Shorty", "Be Cool" where Chili Palmer gets involved in the record biz is disappointing.
		Devito is showing you that people get to live the Hollywood lifestyle by being clever.
	www.blogcritics.org /archives/2003/04/22/202516.xml (244 words)

	Get Shorty Only , Paperback, Elmore Leonard,Subjects - Fiction - General, . From Scifind, The Science Fiction Finder ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		the story of a movie loving loan shark who gets pushed just far enough to launch a scheme in the la-la land of hollywood is full of the authors trade-mark sleazy characters and dialouge so sharp you could cut yourself turning the pages.
		As with all Leonard novels that I've been fortunate enough to read, "Get Shorty" is awash with attitude; also the way the author presents dialogue between the different characters you feel as if you are actually present in the scene.
		I wouldn't quite rank "Get Shorty" up alongside my favourite Leonard novel to date, "City Primeval" but Chili Palmer is a wonderful creation and it's no surprise that he appears again in a sequel, "Be Cool".
	www.scifind.co.uk /details-0440236142.html (625 words)

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		Gets there, he's supposed to call her, tell her when to come out.
		He gets out of the car and heads for the set where Harry is now looking up at the sky and yelling at someone.
		He gets the Bear down on the concrete, straddles his midsection and reaches down to lift him up by the waist of his pants.
	www.scifiscripts.com /msol/get_shorty.txt (19592 words)

	GET SHORTY
		A technique to get a free-flowing LFO involves holding down a note outside the playable range, and voilà -- those evolving filter-swept bass lines are suddenly possible.
		Even now I get a thrill from this single keyboard that can switch from warm, swirly synthesizer pads to drum loops and then on to strange, digital tones or massive screaming unison solos.
		Korg and a few third-party companies produced a reasonable sample library but getting hold of such things now is about as likely as my securing a hot date with Cindy Crawford.
	www.soundonsound.com /sos/1997_articles/nov97/korgdss1.html (2257 words)

	'Get Shorty'
		Though Chili is an avid movie fan with a vast warehouse of quote lines at his fingertips, before coming to L.A. he hadn't the slightest wish to get into the business.
		But Chili is a master at improvisation; whatever the situation, he goes with it and shrewdly turns it to his own advantage.
		With its crisscrossing plot lines, "Get Shorty" tells a complex story, and it is to his credit that Sonnenfeld (the "Addams Family" movies) keeps everything straight.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/getshortyrhinson_c03319.htm (605 words)

	DVD Times - Get Shorty
		MGM released a 2-disk Special Edition of ‘Get Shorty’ to coincide with the theatrical release of its sequel ‘Be Cool’.
		Get Shorty: Look At Me is the big making-of, a 25-minute piece with contributions from all the cast and main crew.
		At just under 20 minutes, Get Shorty: Wiseguys and Dolls is a closer look at some of Leonard’s characters as they appear in the film, including Karen Flores, Ray Barboni and so on, although it morphs into a piece on how the film was shot.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=57359 (1432 words)

	Review: Get Shorty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Get Shorty is much more a comedy than anything else, and a very funny one at that.
		One of the great pleasures of watching Get Shorty is that you don't have to turn off your brain while the film is on screen.
		Get Shorty may indeed be 1995's Pulp Fiction, but this less profane film is likely to find wider acceptance.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/g/get_shorty.html (632 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| Elmore Leonard: high priest of low-life America
		Coming out of the premiere of Get Shorty, the producer asked him to write a sequel, so he did, Be Cool, the further adventures of Travolta's character, Chili Palmer, loan shark turned film financer.
		But because of the success of Get Shorty and Pulp Fiction, he says, 'the studio was frightened of Travolta's new fee, 20 million bucks.
		I said we get a script written, you get it to Travolta with whatever you want to pay him, and if not we'll get Benicio del Toro to do it.
	books.guardian.co.uk /departments/crime/story/0,6000,882253,00.html (2087 words)

	Amazon.com: Get Shorty (1995) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		"Get Shorty" returns in a new 2 disc "Collector's Edition" DVD just in time for the sequel "Too Cool" which will be premiering in theaters in March.
		While "Get Shorty" will entertain you and still is a good movie, ultimately I still find some weaknesses with the movie as a whole.
		The story of "Get Shorty" is as follows: Chili Palmer is Miami Loan Shark collector who is a big fan of the movies.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0792837916?v=glance (2617 words)

	The American Enterprise: Get Shorty Instead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Get Shorty, which was a Hollywood satire of itself.
		Chili must thus manage to avoid being killed by three different groups of thugs who, as this satirical film has it, are part and parcel of the modern music industry.
		Get Shorty, but from gags such as The Rock doing a flamboyantly gay stereotype, and a cameo appearance by Aerosmith front man Steven Tyler.
	www.taemag.com /issues/articleID.18449/article_detail.asp (737 words)

	MMI Review: Get Shorty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Travolta scored big in Tarantino's ode to gangster-philosophers, "Pulp Fiction", and his new movie, "Get Shorty" is sure to send him into the high rent district.
		"Get Shorty" is the kind of movie that features fast talking characters, all thrown together in humorous and yet slightly uncomfortable situations.
		In other words, "Get Shorty" is a richly plotted, extremely entertaining movie that makes the most of an excellent cast and an intelligent script.
	www.shoestring.org /mmi_revs/get_shorty.html (384 words)

	Salon Brilliant Careers \| Elmore Leonard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Diana Ross gets frisky, a strapless dress is risky, and while Kevin shakes the Bacon, the Reform Party's achin'.
		Ever since the critical and commercial success of Barry Sonnenfeld's 1995 adaptation of Leonard's bestseller "Get Shorty," and the critical success, at least, of two other Leonard films (1997's "Jackie Brown" and 1998's "Out of Sight"), actors, producers and directors have all been taking the stand.
		Scott Frank -- who wrote the scripts for "Get Shorty" and "Out of Sight" and is working on the film adaptation of "Be Cool," the sequel to "Get Shorty" -- thinks he knows what the problem is. "Oftentimes, with his books, people misunderstand where the gold lies," Frank told the Los Angeles Times.
	www.salon.com /people/bc/1999/09/28/leonard (997 words)

	BBC - Movies - review - Get Shorty: Special Edition DVD
		It was a word-of-mouth hit for John Travolta following his comeback in Pulp Fiction, but Barry Sonnenfeld's Get Shorty isn't just another crime caper.
		Rene Russo gets her dues as scream queen Karen Flores in Wiseguys And Dolls, eschewing the bimbo stereotype for a "straight shooting" style.
		Altogether this two-disc edition of Get Shorty is well-rounded, fun and comes with plenty of behind-the-scenes titbits.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2005/03/16/get_shorty_se_2005_dvd_review.shtml (623 words)

	Movie Database - [TV Guide Online] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In director Barry Sonnenfeld's gracefully light GET SHORTY, Travolta is Chili Palmer, a Miami-based debt collector for the mob who gets a bad case of the movie-producing bug while visiting Los Angeles.
		He's groping his way toward a second career that builds on his fund-raising skills -- and that turns out to be the making of the movie we watch, GET SHORTY.
		Chili drops into town and promptly gets the lay of the land: Rene Russo as a washed-up sci-fi starlet who has no difficulty conveying that she's seen and heard it all (till now, at any rate).
	www.tvguide.com /movies/database/ShowMovie.asp?MI=36696 (549 words)

	The DVD Clinic Movie Review of Get Shorty (SE)
		“Get Shorty: Look at Me” (27 mins): The whole cast of actors and filmmakers — including author Elmore Leonard — get together and discuss the story and its characters in what is a fun but superficial making of featurette.
		There are a lot of lines being repeated over and over and rather than ending up with the usual flubbed lines and goofs, you get a real good look at actors at work by seeing tons of deliveries for the same pieces of dialogue.
		Get Shorty Party Reel (5 mins): This is a rough reel of takes and outtakes from the movie edited as a musical montage at first.
	www.joblo.com /reviews.php?mode=joblo_dvds&id=771 (983 words)

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