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  Girls Town - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Girls Town was a 1959 film produced by MGM, starring Mamie Van Doren, Mel Tormé and Ray Anthony; Paul Anka also appears in his first acting role.
Girls Town was lampooned in September 1994 on movie-mocking television series Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Circumstantial evidence places juvenile delinquent Silver (Van Doren) at the scene and she is sent to Girls Town, a rehabilitation village run by a group of nuns.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Girls_Town   (383 words)

  
 Frequently Asked Questions
Missouri Girls Town is a member of the Alliance for Children and Families as well as the Missouri Coalition of Children's Agencies.
Girls Town provides a continuum of care that ranges from outpatient assessment and counseling for family and children to a residential system that can care for preadolescent children through high school graduates.
The majority of girls are referred to Girls Town through the Missouri Division of Family Services, the Department of Mental Health, and the juvenile courts.
www.mogirlstown.org /FAQs.htm   (461 words)

  
 WashingtonPost.com: 'Girls Town': Lively Reality Chicks
But when a clue is discovered in Nikki's diary, suggesting the reason for her suicide, the group coalesces in a way that transcends its formerly random connections.
If the automotive vandalism that the girls mete out as punishment for a macho classmate's sexual assault seems wan in comparison with what they could (or should) do to him, it is a reminder that these are school kids and not Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Girls Town is rated R and contains profanity, discussion of sexual matters and mild violence.
washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/review96/girlstownosull.htm   (422 words)

  
 Girls Town
As Patti, a tough-talking, hyperactive daredevil in a clique of four, she embodies the kind of motor-mouthed tomboy most likely to be named class clown in the high school yearbook.
"Girls Town" has wonderfully realistic performances by the actors, who created much of their own dialogue through group improvisation.
In celebrating the solidarity of high school girls who refuse to live and die according to the Beverly Hills ideal, the movie raises a hoarse cheer for candor and spunky self-determination.
partners.nytimes.com /library/film/girls_town.html   (570 words)

  
 Girls Town   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The story of three high-school girls who decide to fight back against the insidious sexist violence about them, McKay's film does more than just sensationalize this subject -- it explores it with intensity, authenticity, and intelligence, leaving the questions it probes and raises unresolved and challenging.
Playing a trio of Hackensack (New Jersey) high-school students, they bring wit and conviction to their lines (Taylor is especially effective, if grating, as an unwed Hispanic mother), but the material has the definite studied air of a workshop about it.
Similarly, Girls Town gathers from its doubts, missteps, and half-formed thinking not the strength to answer its questions but the power to have them asked.
bostonphoenix.com /alt1/archive/movies/reviews/08-29-96/GIRLS_TOWN.html   (723 words)

  
 Metroactive Movies | Girls Town
The problem from a PR standpoint is that Girls Town doesn't tell an easily summarized fire-and-brimstone story about how our nation's youth have gone to pot--the sort of story that inspires so much op-ed handwringing and film-critic hyperbole.
In so doing, Girls Town is the most unambiguously feminist American film to come down the pike in quite a while--another reason it might have trouble earning adequate press in some quarters.
Girls Town (Rated R; 90 min.), directed by Jim McKay, written by McKay, Denise Casano, Anna Grace, Bruklin Harris and Lili Taylor, and starring Taylor, Grace and Harris.
www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/08.29.96/girlstown-9635.html   (857 words)

  
 Girls' Town
Girls' Town is the Centre of Aristasia Friends where all our different Activities take place and where you are always welcome to join in and take part.
I realise that Girls' Town is only sleeping for a short time, but I had not realised how much I have come to depend on hearing from you all.
And at the Pokecentres in every town there is a free public ordinator which one can use - one can connect to one's own ordinator through Elektraspace (Elektraspace is - oh, but you know that, don't you - you are in it!) and pop new creatures on it.
www.aristasia.co.uk /girlstown4.html   (9097 words)

  
 Unofficially Girls Town
Girls Town won the Filmmakers trophy and a special award for collaboration at Sundance.
Since Girls Town, McKay co-produced American Movie which won the top documentary prize at Sundance in 1999 and is still playing in some theaters.
Note: Despite the fact that Girls Town is available on video and could still benefit from a web site, October Films (which was bought by Universal and then USA Films which no longer uses the October name) no longer has the site up.
www.well.com /~srhodes/girlstown.html   (1262 words)

  
 Girls Town
For all its verite pretenses, Girls Town is less about a bunch of high-schoolers than it is about a movie director and a cadre of writer-performers examining their own feelings about rape, relationships, and American womanhood.
The remaining girls manage to smuggle Nikki's diary out of her grieving mother's home, and page through it at Patti's place, investigating the root of Nikki's despair.
Girls Town is a political film, in that it calls for action.
www.deep-focus.com /flicker/girlstown.html   (774 words)

  
 Girls' Town
In Girls' Town you say you are going to Southern Vintesse and in the same letter you say it is southern Novaria.
This girl is old enough to know better than to present such sloppy work to a mistress at Avenbridge and ought to be made to realise just how irresponsible and disrespectful she has been.
I will tolerate a degree of high-spiritedness in a young pupil but this girl is, I believe, on the verge of progressing to the upper school and so ought clearly to have ceased such frivilous and careless behaviour in relation to her academic work.
www.aristasia.co.uk /girlstown15.html   (17074 words)

  
 Citrus: Boys, Girls Town leader retires
While in the public imagination, Girls and Boys Town is primarily thought of as an orphanage; most of the troubled young people living on its campus have been referred by families or social service agencies.
Gingrich had praised Girls and Boys Town and, citing the movie Boys Town, said it was evidence that orphanages are not a bad solution to the problems of today's youth.
Peter has loved his work at Girls and Boys Town, which was renamed from Boys Town in 2000 by the vote of its residents.
www.sptimes.com /2005/07/02/Citrus/Boys__Girls_Town_lead.shtml   (853 words)

  
 DVD review of Calendar Girls - DVD Town   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
"Calendar Girls," the 2003 film version of the real-life experiences of a group of Yorkshire housewives, is beautifully made, well acted, charming, engaging, humorous, and heartwarming.
Mirren, of course, is always a pleasure to watch, whether it's the tough Scotland Yard Inspector Jane Tennison in "Prime Suspect" or the slinky sorceress Morgana in "Excalibur." In "Calendar Girls" she was nominated for Golden Globe and Golden Satellite awards for her performance.
For her sensitive portrayal in "Calendar Girls" she, too, was nominated for a Golden Satellite award.
www.dvdtown.com /review/calendargirls/11757/2124   (1221 words)

  
 About Us - parenting.org
Girls and Boys Town is a leader in the treatment and care of "at-risk" boys and girls and in the research and development of programs to meet the ever-changing needs of these children and their families.
In 2005, Girls and Boys Town, a non-profit, non-sectarian organization, directly cared for more than 46,000 children, directly assisted nearly 410,000 children and families through the Boys Town National Hotline and indirectly assisted more than a million children and families through other outreach and training programs.
Girls and Boys Town's national headquarters and its largest child-care facility are located in the Village of Boys Town, Nebraska a National Historic Landmark west of Omaha.
www.parenting.org /about/index.asp   (201 words)

  
 Boys and Girls Town of Missouri - Welcome
Whether you are a parent seeking help, a referral agency looking for the best treatment for a child or a supporter interested in helping abused and neglected children, we provide important services to help children and their families.
At Boys and Girls Town, our mission is to improve the lives of children with emotional and behavioral problems through superior, family-focused services.
In 2005 Boys & Girls Town helped children and families in 85 Missouri counties and the City of St. Louis, representing 75 percent of the state.
www.bgtm.org /aboutus/default.asp?SectionID=1   (202 words)

  
 FILM REVIEW -- Engaging `Girls Town' Transcends Small Flaws
But ``Girls Town'' is such an achievement in other ways that it seems churlish to get into a snit over minor failings.
Bruklin Harris' role as Angela, a middle-class fl girl who clashes with her mother, is not as well developed as the others.
Even more problematic, ``Girls Town'' doesn't make a convincing case for its central assumption -- that the girls' friend committed suicide because she was abused by a man.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1996/08/30/DD55687.DTL   (611 words)

  
 DVD review of 100 Girls - DVD Town   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
When he wakes up in the morning, the girl is no longer in the elevator with him.
Of all things, "100 Girls" begins to resemble "What Women Want," wherein a man with sex on the brain begins to see the world from a female perspective and begins to help women.
However, "100 Girls" is wilder and raunchier than the "Pies" in terms of its brutally in-your-face dialogue.
www.dvdtown.com /review/100girls/8125/879   (1152 words)

  
 Girls Town Movie Poster
Although, oddly, Jimmy Parlow does agree to come to Girls Town for a concert to further torment the delicate Sarafina by dancing with the other incarcerated hotsy-totsy's in her presence (???).
Double meanwhile, back in town, The Jag's and The Dragon's, still have some issues to resolve, which they plan to "effort" in the only "no hands on the steering wheel" chicken drag race in film-making history, that is to take-place in the in the L.A. Riverbed (where else?).
And, at this point, it is finally revealed who (whom?) the girl out at the cliff was by the pattern on her head-scarf....hmmmm.
www.sd455.com /moviegirl.htm   (1654 words)

  
 Girls' Town
Between performances at Sugar Town shows, all four spin records by their favorite female artists, from Paula Abdul to obscure defunct bands like Liliput.
"People think that 'cause you're the girl in the band you have to be the singer, or that you suck," says Cohen, who's been playing guitar in one local band or another for years.
Sugar Town is the ideal setting for such impromptu collaborations and experiments.
www.citypaper.net /articles/2002-03-28/music.shtml   (899 words)

  
 National Hotline - Girls and Boys Town
The Girls and Boys Town National Hotline is a 24-hour crisis, resource and referral line.
In 2005, more than 410,000 children and families were helped through the Girls and Boys Town national hotline, and over the past decade, more than 7 million callers have found help at the end of the line.
Information about the Girls and Boys Town national hotline is printed on more than 20 million pizza boxes each year, thanks to Godfather’s Pizza.
www.girlsandboystown.org /hotline/index.asp   (189 words)

  
 Girls Town   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Patti is an unwed mother struggling to complete her education as she deals with her irresponsible boyfriend, while the other three are good students going on to college after completing their final year of high school.
Struggling for clues to explain the tragedy, the other three girls discover her diary and learn that she had been raped while serving an internship at a magazine.
As the girls compare notes, they realize that they've all been treated badly by men; Emma was also raped, and Patti sardonically says that if rape is having sex when you don't really want to, then she's been raped by practically every guy she's ever gone out with.
www.djangomusic.com /item_movie.asp?id=V+++135537   (250 words)

  
 Girls Town (1996)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Plot Summary: A look at a group of girl friends coming-of-age during their senior year of high school in urban America...
MPAA: Rated R for pervasive strong language, and for drug use.
Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for Girls Town (1996)
www.imdb.com /title/tt0116418   (271 words)

  
 Emerson (MO08) - Press Release - Emerson Visiting Boys & Girls Town Thursday   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
WASHINGTON - U.S. Representative Jo Ann Emerson (MO-08) will come to Boys and Girls Town of Missouri in Rolla on Thursday, April 13 for a tour and discussion with faculty from 9:30 to 11:00 a.m.
“Boys and Girls Town is a national organization with a great reputation for turning around the lives of young men and women who need the support and nurturing of a close family.
I am looking forward to visiting with the people who work hard to put these children on the right path, as well as those who the programs have helped,” Emerson said.
www.house.gov /list/press/mo08_emerson/pr_060411c_boysgirlstown.html   (170 words)

  
 Deep Discount DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
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deepdiscountdvd.com /redirect.cfm?...&ref=411interactive&goto=buyPage   (566 words)

  
 Welcome to Boys and Girls Town of Missouri
Boys and Girls Town of Missouri 's philosophy, Kids First, underscores our commitment to helping children discover the best in themselves.
Using a strength-based approach, Boys and Girls Town helps children focus on positive behaviors that can lead to improved self-esteem and, ultimately, positive relationships with their peers and adults.
The high quality of education programs available at Boys & Girls Town is evident by the number of residents earning high school degrees.
www.bgtm.org   (386 words)

  
 Welcome to Girls and Boys Town
From my first night here at Girls and Boys Town in Father Flanagan’s bed until this very moment, I have been honored and humbled to be a part of your lives, and the caretaker of his dream: to change the way America cares for its children and families.
Girls and Boys Town Youth Help Disadvantaged Children Prepare for School
Girls and Boys Town youth continue to reflect the spirit of community service by helping disadvantaged youth in our community through a Salvation Army project.
www.boystown.org   (225 words)

  
 Missouri Girls Town - Where Caring Counts
ince 1953, Missouri Girls Town has had a single mission: "To provide a loving, stable home for abused and neglected girls." It is a mission that defines who we are, what we do, and why we say confidently that Girls Town is a home "where caring counts."
Today, Girls Town remains focused on providing the highest level of care in residential and outpatient settings for abused and neglected girls, ages 8-21.
Our goal is to help each of the young women in our care overcome the trauma of abuse and neglect and gain a new start on life.
www.mogirlstown.org   (150 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Girls Town: Video: Charles F. Haas,Mamie Van Doren,Mel Tormé,Ray Anthony,Margaret Hayes,Paul Anka,Cathy ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Silver becomes the number one suspect even though she has an alibi, but due to previous brushes with the law she's sent to Girls Town, a home for young women in trouble with the law which is run by nuns.
Denying that she was ever around the night of this date-gone-wrong and is sent to an all female youth detention center run by Nuns.
Starring B-movie bad girl Mamie Van Doren, pushing 30 at least, playing an underage teen, who is sent to reform school run by Catholic nuns.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/630272998X?v=glance   (1339 words)

  
 Girls' Town - Moviefone
Girls Town (1996): find the latest news, photos and trailers, as well as local showtimes/dvd info at Yahoo!
Girls Town / Movie, Jim McKay, Lili Taylor, Bruklin Harris, Anna Grace, Aunjanue Ellis, Ramya Pratt, Asia Minor, Carl Kwaku Ford, Guillermo Díaz, Shondalin,...
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movies.aol.com /movie/girls-town/1013760/main   (151 words)

  
 Girls Town VHS Jim McKay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Lili Taylor leads a tremendously talented young cast of 4 girls struggling with the decisions and demands of their senior year in high school.
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 Movie Info for Girls About Town on MSN Movies
Kay Francis and Lilyan Tashman portray what used to be euphemistically labelled "good time girls".
They work the convention circuit, providing companionship and other favors for tired business men--who of course lavish the girls with expensive gifts.
Girls About Town is the sort of ribald film fare that would be chased off the screen a few years later by the more stringent Production Code.
entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=89881   (126 words)

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