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Charlotte Rae, Charles Durning, Doris Roberts, Star On The Hollywood Walk Of Fame and Walk Of Fame - Charlotte Rae, Charles Durning and Doris Roberts Los Angeles, California - Actor Charles Durning is honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Thursday 31st July 2008

Charlotte Rae, Charles Durning, Doris Roberts, Star On The Hollywood Walk Of Fame and Walk Of Fame

The L.A. Riot Spectacular Review


Weak
A film that works overtime to offend each and every ethnic group and economic class that makes up the smoggy purgatory of Los Angeles while simultaneously patting itself on the back for being so putatively daring, The L.A. Riot Spectacular is a cynical exercise in erstwhile satire that's all the more frustrating for the wasted opportunity it represents.

Like a series of linked MAD TV skits done without regard to network censors - the humor is about that intelligent - the film presents the 1992 Rodney King beating and subsequent riots as a grand comic opera of greed and stupidity, going after everybody involved with equal vigor. One can get a feel for how writer/director Marc Klasfeld intends to approach his subject a few minutes in, when the car chase and police beating of King (T.K. Carter) is done as a jokey game, with a police helicopter pilot serving as the announcer ("and they're off!"), while the cops themselves, having pulled King over, place beats over the ethnicity of the guy inside. Then Snoop Dogg shows up - serving, appropriately enough, as the film's narrator and chorus - to introduce the film proper, while fireworks go off behind him.

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