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	`Real Blonde' is too safe for DiCillo fans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		WITH The Real Blonde, independent filmmaker Tom DiCillo (Johnny Suede, Living in Oblivion, Box of Moonlight) stepped away from the film festival/specialty theater venues for his first big-studio movie, a vehicle for Paramount.
		It is not until the relationship starts fraying, because Mary feels that in a real partnership Joe would bring in more money, that Joe accepts the advice of a casting director played by Kathleen Turner.
		All one really needs to parody soaps is goose up the dialogue and have the actors play it the way real soap actors play it.
	www.chron.com /cgi-bin/auth/story/content/chronicle/ae/movies/reviews/0403blonde.html (495 words)

	THE REAL BLONDE movie review with photos
		He has peopled his screenplay with a half-dozen characters who go chasing after ridiculous dreams when, as Dorothy observed, their heart's desire was right there in their own back yard.
		An inveterate womanizer, Bob thinks he will achieve happiness when he finally finds a woman who is a real blonde -- as opposed to the bottled kind he usually encounters.
		Real Blonde refuses to progress down conventional avenues, or even explain some of its digressions.
	www.rochestergoesout.com /mov/r/realbl.html (672 words)

	The Real Blonde
		Bond's response is that it doesn't really matter, as long as collars and cuffs match.
		Daryl Hannah is dim and uninteresting as the real blonde of the title, a soap dish who beds Bob both on- and off-camera.
		The best parts of the The Real Blonde are the beginning and the end, brief scenes of an elderly woman losing and then finding her dog.
	members.dca.net /dnb/reviews/realblonde.htm (482 words)

	A Conversation with "Real Blonde" Tom DiCillo
		If a woman is the real blonde, her hair on top and on the bottom is going to be blonde.
		My idea was that the real blonde represents this ideal, this image of perfection that we all sort of create.
		I would certainly love to see "The Real Blonde" advertised on "Seinfeld" if it was done showing the film the way it is and not misrepresenting the film.
	www.indiewire.com /people/int_DiCillo_Tom_980227.html (1909 words)

	DVD Times - The Real Blonde (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Real Blonde stars Matthew Modine and Catherine Keener as a mid-30's couple, Joe and Mary, living in an apartment in New York.
		The Real Blonde is no different with being so adoring of models and fashion photography that any point the movie is trying to make about the exploitation of models' bodies get lost in the attempt to capture the sight of beautiful women on film.
		The Real Blonde is presented with a 2.0 Stereo soundtrack and sounds perfectly acceptable given that the film is dialogue-heavy.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=5413 (1550 words)

	The Real Blonde - Movie Commentary by Scott Ventura (FeedMyEgo.com)
		It pokes gently at superficiality, but it never really moves in for a kill that would identify it as satire.
		The closest it comes are two sequences that made me do a double-take because the line between reality and fantasy is only seen in hindsight.
		The Real Blonde is loaded with familiar faces.
	feedmyego.com /movies/R/RealBlondeThe1997.html (300 words)

	BOX OF MOONLIGHT & THE REAL BLONDE - DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Which leads me to The Real Blonde, a picture that DiCillo directed during the gruelling period of getting Box of Moonlight distributed; an ensemble piece about struggling careerists in New York, The Real Blonde is far removed from its predecessor, an obvious artistic palette-cleanser.
		It defies our expectations at every turn: a phone call to Joe from Madonna becomes a key mystery; Bob's fetish makes him prone to violence; Mary is barely proud of the fact that her boyfriend is an extremely moral and caring person and fixates on his financial woes...
		In fact, The Real Blonde is a much more satisfying experience than the recent, critically overpraised The Opposite Of Sex, a movie that substitutes cynicism for laughs.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/dicillo.htm (1455 words)

	MMI Movie Review: The Real Blonde (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		An hour and 47 minutes into Tom DiCillo's "The Real Blonde", I noted with gratitude that it was over and I could go home.
		Bob and bottle blonde Sahara started out as a one night stand, but he wants to be with a real blonde, if he can ever find her, and she wants to get married.
		And Tina (not a real blonde) is a Madonna double who just wants to be loved.
	www.shoestring.org /mmi_revs/realblonde.html (365 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: The Real Blonde (xhtml)
		Tom DiCillo's ``The Real Blonde'' is a meandering movie that usually meanders in entertaining directions.
		Later in the film, we see the Marlo Thomas photographer taking that shot, and we learn the real story: The man, a European Fabio clone, is embarrassed because he ``released the gas,'' as he puts it, and the model consoles him.
		As for Joe and Mary, their threatened relationship and their temptations to stray--``The Real Blonde'' is so much more adult in its attitudes that a shallow film like, say, this week's ``Kissing a Fool.'' The characters are articulate enough to talk about what really moves them; they don't play sitcom games.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19980227/REVIEWS/802270308/1023 (704 words)

	THE REAL BLONDE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Featuring a large ensemble cast and a few witty moments, "The Real Blonde" hopes to be a sardonic exploration of people's superficialities in both their lives and careers.
		Inhabiting a man who's looking for any of the few natural blondes that exist (in his mind), he hams it up nicely as an arrogant soap opera star who finds that he can't "perform" once he discovers the type of woman he's been looking for.
		Beyond some bad attitudes (a guy who sleeps with women, hoping that they'll be natural blondes, sneaks out the next morning, etc...) and a brief encounter with an armed man, many of the other categories have little or no objectionable material.
	www.screenit.com /movies/1998/the_real_blonde.html (2818 words)

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		She is vain and full of self-pity, dying her hair blonde, and pathetically searching for something spiritual and romantic in her life.
		He has this thing for blondes; and, when he finds out that she is really not a blonde he treats her rather shabbily after a night of sex.
		On the soap opera job he lands, his co-star is the real blonde, Kelly (Hannah).
	www.sover.net /~ozus/realblonde.htm (780 words)

	The Real Blonde
		I found this film superficial, trite, often boring, and not very funny, thus causing it to fail both as a comedy and as a thought piece.
		The structure of the film is quite clever, but it never really uses that imaginative structure to go anywhere or develop anything much of interest.
		The fives are generally not worthwhile unless they are really your kind of material, about like two stars from the critics.
	www.fakes.net /realblonde.htm (500 words)

	DVD Booty - The Real Blonde (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Daryl Hannah is Kelly, who's also in the soap opera, and the running gag is that she threatens to commit suicide in every episode.
		The Real Blonde is an ensemble movie that focuses on the lives and loves of people struggling to make it in the Film & TV industry in New York.
		Bob juggles a model and his soap co-star (a great Darryl Hannah) pondering which one is a "Real Blonde" while having to deal with the absurdity of fame and Soap opera plots.
	www.dvdbooty.com /dvds/the-real-blonde (811 words)

	The Real Blonde (1997) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Trivia: Bronson Pickett's character's name, Rubio, means "blonde" in Spanish.
		everything and hence the ultimate prize, a real blonde.
		In this world we find Joe (Matthew Modine) and Mary (Catherine Keener), he a somewhat gawky 35 year old struggling actor waiting tables while waiting for his big chance for a real acting role, preferably "Death of a Salesman".
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0119987 (447 words)

	The Louisville Scene - Movie Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Our main interest in "The Real Blonde" is the relationship between Joe (Matthew Modine), a New York waiter and would-be actor, and his girlfriend Mary (Catherine Keener), a makeup artist for a biker-chic fashion photographer (Marlo Thomas).
		Joe and Mary share a grungy downtown apartment and are hitting a dead end in their six-year relationship because Joe's self-esteem has collapsed and Mary's latent hostilities toward men are surfacing.
		Something has to happen for each of them if they're to remain a couple, and their separate adventures, along with Bob's recurring pursuit of a true blonde, give the film a hit-and-miss anecdotal structure that tends to keep the audience at an emotional distance.
	www.courier-journal.com /scene/movies/rev1998/19980515realblonde.html (330 words)

	Jesus is a False Blonde (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Mary, being a nearby resident of the city of Bethlehem, located in the Middle East, was almost certainly a dark-featured woman, as people from that part of the world are wont to be.
		So unless baby Jesus was hit with some kind of supernatural, super-dominant blonde gene, it seems more than likely that he — contrary to popular depiction — was dark-featured as well.
		That guy’s a natural blonde, which is unnatural for these parts, which is part of why we had to kill him.
	www.glossynews.com /artman/publish/jesus-false-blonde-1139.shtml (669 words)

	Film Scouts Reviews: Real Blonde, The (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The story is about an actor - the very essence of an ersatz person - looking for something authentic in the world: namely, a woman whose pubic hair proves her veracity, honesty, upworthiness and value.
		To check out her blondness, he's got to get in her pants, and so the subject of The Real Blonde is the worst kind of con.
		And it really fails to be funny when the supermodel shows up with a fl eye and a phony story about the accident with the guy's elbow.
	www.filmscouts.com /scripts/review.cfm?File=rea-blo (618 words)

	CD Baby: CONCRETE BLONDE: The Real Thing
		Concrete Blonde are a three piece band consisting of a guitarist (James Mankey) bassist/vocalist (Johnette Napolitano) and drummer (Gabriel Ramirez-Quezada).
		Since my first encounter with Concrete Blonde running the lighting console for their 1st trip to Maine they had me...
		This song really speaks to the current state of things and will get your mental wheels spinning about the reality of war.
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/concreteblonde2 (709 words)

	'The Real Blonde' (R)
		Daryl Hannah (front) is one of the stars of "The Real Blonde." (Paramount)
		he Real Blonde" is a cri de coeur from the most hated tribe on Earth: the tribe of the flat-bellied.
		"The Real Blonde" is rated R for sexual situations and conversations.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/realblondehunter.htm (366 words)

	calendarlive.com: MOVIE REVIEW - The Real Blonde
		The story is related to the rest of the movie by its theme--Caulfield's Bob is the ultimate victim of the myth of perfection--but it plays as pure burlesque, a dirty joke expanded into a series of overdrawn, fitfully funny sketches.
		Joe and Mary share a grungy downtown apartment, and are hitting a dead end in their six-year relationship because Joe's self-esteem has collapsed and Mary's latent hostilities toward all men in general are inching toward the surface.
		Something has to happen for each of them if they're to remain a couple, and their separate adventures, along with Bob's recurring pursuit of a true blond, give the film a hit-and-miss anecdotal structure that tends to keep the audience at an emotional distance.
	www.calendarlive.com /movies/reviews/cl-movie980226-3,2,985226.story (584 words)

	Real Blonde, The (1998): Reviews
		DiCillo has always had the laconic, funkified, vaguely surreal air of a Woody Allen on cough medicine (or a Jim Jarmusch on Jolt, for that matter), but The Real Blonde is just so much ado about nada.
		The Real Blonde has lost that certain something that earmarked DiCillo's earlier, more offbeat outings, resulting in a film which is pleasant rather than innovative.
		Stupidity is also an issue in the independent film The Real Blonde, in which everyone seems to have suffered an IQ slippage of some 40 points.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/realblonde (553 words)

	'The Real Blonde': real bad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In Tom DiCillo's "The Real Blonde," the actors are not the problem.
		Joe (Matthew Modine) is the disillusioned thespian who refuses to admit that real acting includes soap opera roles.
		For an attempt at dark comedy, "The Real Blonde" lacks for laughs.
	www.csulb.edu /~d49er/spring98/v4n20-blonde.html (291 words)

	Amazon.com: Real Blonde (1998) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		"The Real Blonde" is just another hip and mildly clever look at NY people and their daily routines.
		I jumped back to some scenes again and again (like Bob's fiasco with the real blonde, Madonna's music bit, the self-defense class' RRQ ratings, Sahara and the foreign male model, etc...) and I laughed my butt off every time.
		He is on a quest for a "real blonde" for purity and symbolism!
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0792152131?v=glance (1886 words)

	The Real Blonde : filmcritic.com Movie Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Daryl Hannah plays the titular character in The Real Blonde, which does not bode well, considering the fact that the last film in which Hannah had this distinction was 1993's Attack of the 50 Foot Woman.
		In contrast to Living in Oblivion, wherein DiCillo focused on the humor surrounding the mishaps of a low-budget film production, The Real Blonde is centered primarily around the dramatic and moral issues that those involved with these image-oriented industries undergo.
		The Real Blonde is as artificial as the world that it portrays.
	www.filmcritic.com /misc/emporium.nsf/ddb5490109a79f598625623d0015f1e4/64cc389c95180eb0082565c00067fc94?OpenDocument (343 words)

	The Real Blonde (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		However, they won't find much meaning in The Real Blonde, and not enough real humor, either.
		However, Bob has gotten his biggest break yet: a starring role on a soap opera opposite the beautiful Kelly (Daryl Hannah), who may be that illusive woman he's always pursued: a real blonde.
		There are some moments of good humor in The Real Blonde, but not enough.
	www.cinematter.com /movie.php3?rb (353 words)

	The Real Blonde - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Real Blonde is a 1997 movie directed and written by Tom DiCillo.
		The film is a satire on New York's fashion and entertainment industries.
		The Real Blonde at the Internet Movie Database
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Real_Blonde (92 words)

	Being A Real Blonde
		Posted on Sep 21, 2005 at 08:44 PM I'm not even blonde and I do this often.
		I couldn't figure out why everybody was staring at me, than I realized...
		Posted on Jun 01, 2006 at 02:42 PM lol, ive done this a time or two myself....and she isnt a natural blonde.
	www.ugoto.com /pictures/being-a-real-blonde.html (664 words)

	The Real Blonde \| The A.V. Club
		Tales of starving artists hinge on viewers' sympathy for the poor protagonist struggling to maintain a sense of dignity while simultaneously coping with cutthroat competition.
		The Real Blonde tackles these issues of integrity, insecurity, and desperation, centering on the failing relationship between an out-of-work actor and his long-term (and gainfully employed) girlfriend.
		But rather than regularly hitting hard with sharp satire, The Real Blonde instead focuses on tired relationship issues better suited to the small screen, thus wasting the talents of a potentially interesting cast that includes Maxwell Caulfield, Elizabeth Berkley, Buck Henry, Christopher Lloyd, and Daryl Hannah in underdeveloped supporting roles.
	www.avclub.com /content/node/2600 (341 words)

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