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	Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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		Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood is a novel written by Rebecca Wells.
		Through Vivi Walker's scrapbook, titled Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Sidda learns about the ups and downs, triumphs and tragedies that has shaped her mother into the woman she is today.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Divine_Secrets_of_the_Ya-Ya_Sisterhood (200 words)

	Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood Movie Review
		Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood is really the story of Vivi and Sidda, not the four sisters.
		Sidda is so wrapped up in her own pain and insecurities that she has failed to acknowledge that her mother's domineering ways are the result of her own trauma-tinged childhood that bled into an adulthood where she slowly degenerated into a closet booze-hound (in a time when alcoholism and addiction were rarely treated properly).
		Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood is rated PG-13 for language, mild sensuality, and thematic elements.
	www.angelfire.com /journal2/livewire/yayareview.htm (1263 words)

	NUVO.net \| 'Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood'
		In the lobby afterwards, one elderly woman casually said to another, “It was really more about the mother and daughter than the sisterhood, wasn’t it?” She was right and that is the main problem with the movie.
		Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood works when focused on the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, but flounders when addressing the volatile relationship between a mother and a daughter.
		The secret, which will come as a shock to no one, is presented with an absurd amount of melodrama (Judd’s performance becomes flat-out embarrassing during this section) with little dramatic punch.
	www.nuvo.net /archive/oldarts/articlex1906.html (883 words)

	"DIVINE SECRETS OF THE YA - YA SISTERHOOD"
		The Ya- Ya Sisterhood (FIONNULA FLANAGAN, SHIRLEY KNIGHT, MAGGIE SMITH), Vivi's lifelong friends, are determined and eager to restore peace no matter what it takes.
		The Ya- Yas believe that Sidda must know who her mother was as a young woman.
		The Ya- Yas recorded each other's life triumphs in a scrapbook filled with letters, ticket stubs, dried corsages and photos, known as "The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood".
	www.geocities.com /sammygouti/moviereview.html (227 words)

	OnMilwaukee.com music and Clubs: Get yer Ya-Yas's out
		To enter the inner sanctum of the "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" is to give yourself to the laughter, tears and mystique that are borne from decades of friendship stronger than blood.
		Divine Secrets takes you through 60-odd years of friendship between the four women, from the 1930s to today, while maintaining the spunk and integrity of the characters throughout the decades.
		Yes, "Divine Secrets" is a chick flick, but there were plenty of men laughing in the theater.
	www.onmilwaukee.com /music/articles/yayasisterhood.html (480 words)

	Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood at DVDwolf.com
		These three have kept Vivi's secrets for decades, but they decide that the time has come to clear the air, so they concoct an "intervention." They kidnap Sidda, with the help of her fiancé (Angus MacFadyen), and bring her back home to Louisiana.
		The heart of the film is its flashbacks, from the excitement of the Atlanta premiere of Gone With The Wind, to the romance of World War II, to the stresses and strains of parenthood.
		Review: Let's cut right to the chase - The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood is a "chick flick." All of its main characters are women, the theme of the film is female friendship, and gals are the core target audience.
	www.dvdwolf.com /Reviews/D/Divine_Secrets.html (826 words)

	MMI Movie Review: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
		"Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" is happy to open this can of worms in a smart and successful adaptation of Rebecca Wells bestselling novel.
		This is a troubling disturbance in the force for the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, an ancient order made up of Vivi and her three best friends since childhood, played with unfettered glee by Maggie Smith, Shirley Knight and Fionnula Flanagan.
		Screenwriter Callie Khouri makes her directing debut with "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" and nimbly handles the daunting array of colorful characters, multi-generational storylines, frequent flashbacks and Deep South cliches.
	www.shoestring.org /mmi_revs/divinesecretsof-cm-76616675.html (474 words)

	Amazon.com: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: A Novel: Books: Rebecca Wells (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Her journey is sprinkled with her own memories of her irrepressible and irresistible mother, and she is rewarded with glimpses of true love and loyalty against an often hilarious and poignant backdrop of life in the rural South.
		"Divine Secrets" focuses once again on Siddalee, but this time she is a 40-year old successful stage director who is taking some time out from her career and her love life to put to rest some old ghosts.
		"Divine Secrets Of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood" is a perfect example of the fact that the test that should be manditory for all parents, both male and female.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060928336?v=glance (2410 words)

	HoustonChronicle.com - Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
		Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
		Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood yo-yos between past and present.
		By showing Sidda their scrapbook, titled "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood," and telling her about Vivi's life, they hope she'll have a better understanding and tolerance of her mother.
	www.chron.com /cs/CDA/moviestory.hts/ae/movies/reviews/1442734 (672 words)

	Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)
		At first, all the Ya-Yas' tales accomplish is convincing Sidda that she, too, will be an unfit wife and mother (and who can blame her, given the histrionics she hears about), prompting her to question her engagement to the charming Connor (Braveheart's Angus MacFadyen).
		It takes the revelation of Vivi's Big Secret (a scene which, despite being hard to watch, is ultimately rather underwhelming) to help her discover her inner Ya-Ya and decide what to do.
		Obviously, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood is this summer's chick flick to beat, and chances are it will do well, despite some of Khouri's shortcomings as a first-time director (she's best known as the writer behind grrrl-power epic Thelma and Louise).
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=135239&Tab=reviews&buy=open&CID=13 (675 words)

	CNN.com - Review: 'Ya-Ya' a pandering cliche - June 7, 2002
		Note that "chick flick" -- a singsong phrase that efficiently denigrates both women and cinema -- doesn't mean "good-quality movie." All it means is that the mother-daughter story, the characters' overripe names, the boozy Southern setting, and the virtually non-stop arguments are mirror images of 15 other chick flicks.
		"Ya-Ya Sisterhood" is her directorial debut, and it practically lies down and wallows in its mega-hammy "I Am Woman" tone.
		"Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" contains drinking, drugging, a moment of ugly racism, and some children being beaten with a belt.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/SHOWBIZ/Movies/06/07/ca.s02.review.yaya (791 words)

	KINNOPIO - Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The secretive (though not as important as you’d think) back-story to Vivi and the background to Sisterhood -- all of which become clear in the end -- depend on the flashback and its ability to release bite-sized chunks of story to Sidda and the audience.
		One of the secrets never discussed in any dialogue is where the men are, except toward the end, when James Garner -- who plays Vivi’s good-natured and too-faithful husband Shep -- says to Angus MacFadyen, “C’mon, son, I’ll introduce you to the Walker men,” upon which the two of them (revealingly) walk off-screen.
		Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood has a number of in-between sequences as well, in which Vivi is played by Ashley Judd, and a look at the movie’s narrative umbrella finds three actresses forced to convey the same emotionally needy tendencies: Burstyn, Judd, and Bullock.
	home.earthlink.net /~kinnopio/reviews/2002/divine.htm (939 words)

	'Ya-Ya- Sisterhood'
		Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya-Sisterhood is the kind of movie that makes us feel good about our own mother-daughter relationships.
		The fur flies and Vivi's charismatic and comical childhood friends -- aka the Ya-Ya Sisterhood -- come to the rescue to unite estranged mother and daughter.
		Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Warner Home Video, $26.98, rated PG, 116 minutes) is a lavish adaptation of the popular Rebecca Wells novel, with kaleidoscopic characters and subplots.
	www.azcentral.com /ent/movies/articles/1031newondvd-CR.html (390 words)

	Laramie Movie Scope: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
		It is based on the novels "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" and "Little Altars Everywhere," by Rebecca Wells.
		A variety of women and girls star as a tight-knit sisterhood from Louisiana who age some 67 years during the course of the film.
		The sisterhood forces Sidda to read the scrapbook of Ya-Ya Sisterhood secrets so she can better understand Vivi.
	www.lariat.org /AtTheMovies/new/yaya.html (942 words)

	Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This dysfunctional chick flick is not so much to do about a secret sisterhood than the revelation of child abuse, alcoholism, insanity, depression and abandonment.
		The Divine Secrets of the Sisterhood stars Sandra Bullock (Murder by Numbers) as playwright Siddalee Walker who is just as crazy as her truly insane mother Vivian Jane Abbott “Vivi” Walker (Ellen Burstyn, Requiem for a Dream).
		You can’t really call them secrets, because everyone was there living it, only these secrets are open to interpretations from each party involved.
	www.about-movies.com /movies/2002/yayasisterhood.htm (581 words)

	Mother-daughter 'Secrets' / Divine cast keeps 'Ya-Ya Sisterhood' from falling flat
		If "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" were the 10th movie this year about such mothers and daughters, it would be easy to dismiss it as a sincere but middling effort.
		"Divine Secrets" is a kind of Monster Mother movie, but unlike, say, "Postcards From the Edge" or even "Mommie Dearest," it leaves the mother's monstrousness and the source of her dissatisfaction only sketchily defined.
		There's no denying that "Divine Secrets" is a clumsy journey, but at the end we know we've been places.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/06/07/DD189380.DTL&type=movies (844 words)

	Divine Secrets Of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood, The (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Widescreen), Callie Khouri, Sandra Bullock, Ellen Burstyn, Fionnula Flanagan, James Garner, Cherry Jones, Ashley Judd, Shirley Knight, Angus MacFadyen,...
		Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002) Starring: Sandra Bullock, Ellen Burstyn, Ashley Judd.
		CARTELIA - Clan Ya-Ya (Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood)
	www.moviesbytitle.com /Divine-Secrets-of-the-Ya-Ya-Sisterhood,-The.html (626 words)

	Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sister Club
		A classic Southern tale of hilarity set in a sleepy Louisiana parish, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood follows a group of lifelong friends who stage a rather unorthodox intervention to help a young playwright unravel the truth about her complicated, eccentric mother, find forgiveness and acceptance, and let go of her painful past.[TRAILER]
		Underscoring "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" is the simple, yet sincere notion of enduring friendship.
		In another, the bond within the four-woman sisterhood that unites the subjects of the film, giving each both a community in which to forget their worries and a support group to fall back on when time get tough.
	movies.zertinet.com /2002/yayasisterclub.htm (878 words)

	Moviehole.net - Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya sisterhood
		"Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" is an enchanting journey into the lives of four women who were inseparable and did everything together their entire lives.
		Viviane (Ellen Burstyn) and her three childhood friends, Carol (Maggie Smith) Teensy (Fionnula Flanagan) and Necie (Shirley Knight), who all grew up in Louisiana, create a secret sisterhood, swearing eternal devotion to each other and remain best friends through rain and shine, triumphs and tragedies.
		Ya, friendship is everything and family is family no matter how disfunctional.
	www.moviehole.net /reviews/6.html (492 words)

	USCCB Reviews - Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Now the elderly members of the secret childhood society, the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (of which Vivi was the ringleader), the trio trot off to the Big Apple and stage an “intervention,” Ya-Yastyle.
		The women share with Sidda all their “divine secrets” -- as carefully recorded in an old, frilly scrapbook -- about their lives, loves and losses.
		Due to a live-in relationship, a scene of child abuse, mature thematic elements and intermittent profanity and crass language with an instance of rough language, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops classification is A-III -- adults.
	www.usccb.org /movies/d/divinesecretsoftheyayasisterhood.htm (834 words)

	Women On Their Way - Cary's Book Club - Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: A Novel
		Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: A Novel
		In The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Rebecca Wells explores the complex bonds between mother and daughter.
		Decades later the Ya-Ya Sisterhood's "Divine Secrets" are the only way Sidalee Walker, the oldest daughter of the Ya-Ya's most complex and outrageous member, Vivi Abbott Walker, can attempt to understand her mother's past.
	www.wyndham.com /wotw/bookclub/books/divinesecretsyaya/bookreview.wnt (132 words)

	Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood
		The latest in a line of chicken-fried chick flicks ("Steel Magnolias," "Fried Green Tomatoes," "Terms of Endearment," Hope Floats"), "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" is a whole lotta ya-ya indeed.
		The problem with "Divine Secrets" is that not only is its 'revelation' no surprise, but it does nothing to explain Vivi's character, which essentially is the whole point of the movie.
		The man who shuts his wife out of his bedroom only to admire her pirouetting about the yard at night seems to have waited some forty-odd years for a crumb of recognition.
	www.reelingreviews.com /divinesecretsoftheyayasisterhood.htm (602 words)

	The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
		The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, adapted from the selfsame novel and Little Altars Everywhere by Rebecca Wells, falls squarely into the category of the so-called chick flick.
		The Ya-Ya Sisterhood is a group of four Southern women, friends since they were children.
		Four of the primary roles in Divine Secrets go to four incredible actresses (especially Burstyn), unfortunately there is not enough screen time for everybody.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/divine_secrets_of_yaya.html (548 words)

	Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
		Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood makes assumptions about the stupidity (and cupidity) of women that are unjust and hateful while painting men as paternalistically indulgent, a roll of the eyes and a pat on the hand apparently the best and only way to deal with women when they're being insane and abusive.
		Opening similarly to Britney Spears' Crossroads with a flashback to an arcane children's ritual half The Witches of Eastwick and half simple cornpone, Divine Secrets introduces a quartet of young ladies played in their senior years by the unlikely chamber orchestra of Maggie Smith, Fionnula Flannagan, Ellen Burstyn, and Shirley Knight.
		The kind of mint julep opera that introduces its glut of flashbacks with musical flourishes and ends them with crusty old women bustling through doorways, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood is uncertain of its symbolism and uncertain of its emphasis.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /screenreviews/divinesecretsoftheyayasisterhood.htm (642 words)

	Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood & Lovely & Amazing
		Whether an incredible amount of rich characterization or dramatic insight fuels this pleasure is, in both cases, less certain, and for me, a demand that is surprisingly easy to relinquish.
		That Divine Secrets and Lovely & Amazing can delight us with little more than the bare-bones spectacle of multiple women characters discussing things that matter to them is probably a sign of how absolutely parched we are, as a national audience, for female-centered cinema.
		The spit polish that has been so liberally administered to Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood has the strange effect of clarifying the material.
	www.nicksflickpicks.com /yayamaz.html (1482 words)

	Medialunchbox - Music : Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The highlights are numerous: Bob Dylan's lively song waltzes with a raspy narrative, Lauryn Hill uses acoustic plucking to complement her soulful croon, and Bob Schneider contributes an understated love-ballad rumbling with piano.
		Despite the diffuse genres covered, the superior quality of Sisterhood's songs renders these differences negligible, and the album's pacing ensures a pleasing alternation of styles that never lags.
		The divine secret's out--Sisterhood is an essential listen.
	www.medialunchbox.com /ItemId/B0000658AS (588 words)

	filmcritic.com Movie Review: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
		As children on a trip to Atlanta for the premiere of Gone With the Wind, the young Ya-Yas encounter racism in the home, which they quickly douse with their sharp wit and sassy barbs.
		Three generations of actresses were recruited to play the Ya-Ya Sisterhood through the years, though the ladies in the Vivi role (Caitlin Wachs, Ashley Judd, and Burstyn) are written the juiciest dilemmas.
		Sisterhood constantly hints at a tragedy in Vivi’s past that has resulted in her inability to love.
	www.filmcritic.com /misc/emporium.nsf/ddb5490109a79f598625623d0015f1e4/650da66a1029eb9188256bbb007efdb7?OpenDocument (811 words)

	Amazon.ca: DVD: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (Widescreen) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		En oscillant sans cesse entre le doux et l’amer, The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood évite d’emprunter une voie trop convenue et, malgré un enrobage musical trop sucré, jette un regard neuf et émouvant sur les difficiles relations mère-fille.
		Her mother's Ya-Ya friends (the sisterhood), drug and kidnap her in an attempt to reunited daughter with mother.
		The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood tells the story of how the Ya-Yas, try to fix the gap between mother and daughter, daughter and fiancee, and in doing so, lead to a greater, deeper level of understanding between all of them as well.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005JLCT (1148 words)

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