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Article: `CALENDAR GIRLS' LEAPS OFF THE PAGE WITH COMEDY.(PREVIEW)(Calendar)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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Byline: ROGER EBERT Universal Press Syndicate
You may have read about it at the time: A British woman's club, trying to raise money for charity, hit on the idea of having its members pose nude for a pinup calendar. The women were eminently respectable and of a certain age, the photographs were modest if not chaste, and the calendar was an enormous hit, raising something like $1 million for the local hospital.
``Calendar Girls'' retells the story in a very slightly risque comedy. Every press mention makes the inevitable reference to ``The Full Monty,'' but this movie is not as bawdy and only about 10 percent as monty. It's the kind of sweet, good-humored ...