Advantages: Cathy Moriarty, Bonnie Bedelia; Sharon Stone gives her all, as usual. It isn't enough.
Disadvantages: Miscasting celebrated: laughably unmenacing Northam, Scott too nice; dull pacing, annoying kid, forced accents.

...'Gloria', released to disappointed audiences, Stone and Lumet fans in 1999, cannot muster any arguments to defend its right to exist. To think that it was * the * Sidney Lumet, director of 'Dog Day Afternoon', 'Serpico' and 'Network', to name just a few iconic American films of the 70s, who was responsible for this stinker, too. Save for the ordinary cinematography, everything else in it is wrong. An ex-con who took the rap for her boyfriend Kevin (Jeremy Northam), Gloria (Sharon Stone) finishes her three-year term in Florida and heads for New York City to get help from the old boyfriend. Just so happens that Kevin and his gang have a six-year-old boy on their hands, since they've just wiped out the boy's entire family that morning, and the boy supposedly has a computer diskette containing a lot of information... Read review

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Advantages: you will own it forever
Disadvantages: you will eventually play to death

...The opinion I am writing about is Gloria Estefans, "Anything For You". I like this song because it was my first special song for me and my first girlfriend Gill when I was 15. We listened to it a lot during that year it was sort of an incentitive to keep talking and loving each other. I bought this song because I wanted to remember her for we broke up a year later. We drifted apart and ran out of things to say to each other, in other words ironically we stopped talking funny hey how things work out. I moved away to look after my alcoholic grandad with my mum and dad and well.... It was too far away from her so she finished with me :-(.. It's the type of song that reminds you of the good old days. Sort of like a walk down memory lane. When I saw this song listed on Ciao I knew I had to write about it. My days of Jill... Read review

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Advantages: A courageous, inspiring story.
Disadvantages: None

...Caron Keating died in April 2004 after a seven year battle with breast cancer, leaving her husband and two young sons. This book is the story of her life, illness and untimely death as told by her mother Gloria Hunniford. There are also many extracts from Caron's own diary throughout the book on how she coped with her illness, her hopes and fears and her search for a cure This book is a rollercoaster of emotions, happiness, sadness, fear, and a touch of humour. Gloria shares her innermost thoughts, often going into great detail, she tells us of her memories throughout caron's life, the agony of watching her suffer from a terrible,cruel illness and her pain and anguish at losing her. At the beginning of the book there is a beautiful poem called... Read review

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Advantages: Great vocals, excellent lyrics
Disadvantages: One or two weak tracks

...This is my first venture into the world of the album review, so please be gentle with me! However, I would really appreciate some feedback via comments to know what I could improve for future reference. Forgive me for quoting lyrics from each individual track, but given that it’s the lyrics that make this album special for me, I felt it important to include them. I could describe my music tastes as “eclectic”, but I’ll stick to saying they’re just very middle of the road and somewhat varied, with a penchant for strong female vocalists – e.g. Dido, Annie Lennox, Alison Moyet, Gloria Estefan, to name but a few. I like what I like and make no excuses for it. I came across the album “Destiny” by Gloria Estefan several years ago. In fact, I think I bought it in some kind of boot sale type thing at work. I’ve no regrets though... Read review

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