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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2017
MOVIE REVIEW
Harding tale ‘I, Tonya’ sticks the landing
Figure skater
from Oregon
By JAKE COYLE
Associated Press
“I, Tonya” is the Tonya
Harding film you never knew
you wanted: an outrageously
entertaining reappraisal of the
Olympic figure skater who,
in 1994, was involved in a
scheme to injure her main
rival, Nancy Kerrigan.
Resurrecting Harding from
the yellowed pages of ’90s
tabloids may seem about as
necessary as a production of
“Lorena Bobbitt on Ice.” But
yesterday’s media spectacle
has been very good for today’s
movies. It’s no surprise by
now that the tabloid carica-
tures sketched in a sensational
news stories don’t always do
justice to the truth.
The more layered truths
behind scandals of the past
have made for some great doc-
umentaries (particularly last
year’s “O.J.: Made in Amer-
ica” and “Hot Coffee,” the
Neon
Margot Robbie as Tonya Harding in a scene from ‘I, Tonya.’
illuminating story behind the
coffee that was “too hot”) and
a number of recent dramatic
highlights, like Aaron Sorkin’s
upcoming “Molly’s Game,”
about the woman callously
dubbed the “poker princess”
by the tabloids.
Craig Gillespie’s movie —
an “I, Claudius” for less regal
times — isn’t a sober reassess-
ment of Harding. It’s a wink-
ing, rollicking dark comedy
both empathetic and pugna-
cious. It reframes Harding’s
story as an American tragi-
comedy with some of the
unapologetic, this-is-the-re-
al-America sneer of “Good-
Fellas.” “I, Tonya” is a peek
behind a media circus that
can’t help going along for the
ride, too.
“I, Tonya,” written by Ste-
ven Rogers, is introduced as:
“Based on irony free, wildly
contradictory, totally true
interviews with Tonya Hard-
ing and Jeff Gillooly.” It
begins in a mock-documen-
tary style with the characters
— Margot Robbie as Harding,
Sebastian Stan as Gillooly —
giving present-day interviews
recalling “the incident.” Their
stories sometimes converge,
sometimes deviate and the
movie — in a well-worn gim-
mick — playfully pauses at
various points with characters
turning to the camera to relay
their perspective.
The approach sometimes
spoils the fun of “I, Tonya” but
Tatiana S. Riegel’s editing is
kinetic and the performances
keep “I, Tonya” hurtling for-
ward. Especially Allison Jan-
ney. She plays Harding’s bit-
ter, abusive chain-smoking
mother, LaVona, and her per-
formance is a monument of
brutal, caustic wit. In the film’s
early scenes at their Port-
land hometown, she puts a
4-year-old Tonya on the ice
and smirks as she skates loops
around much older and more
well-to-do competitors. But
she’s downright mean, too.
In one scene, she refuses to
let Tonya go to the bathroom.
When Tonya pees herself,
LaVona declares, “Skate wet!”
And that is, on the scale
of things, not the worst of
the abuse heaped on Hard-
ing. Once she finally flees her
mother’s cruelty, she moves in
with Gillooly — a leap from
the frying pan to the fire if ever
there was one. Their romance
is sweet at first, but he soon
begins hitting her, especially
as Harding’s career blossoms.
(She was the first U.S. skater
to land a triple axel.)
“I, Tonya” casts its infa-
mous protagonist, nicknamed
“Trashy Tonya,” as a work-
ing-class insurgent in a glitzy
and prim sport. She’s proudly
“poor and redneck,” jogging
with bags of dog food hoisted
on her back and performing
skating routines set to ZZ Top.
Gillespie (“Lars and the Real
Girl,” “Their Finest Hours”)
fills his movie with tasteless
interiors and period scrunch-
ies, and scores it with a blaring
rock ‘n’ roll soundtrack that
plays across Harding’s on-ice
triumphs and domestic pound-
ings, alike.
Robbie, in her finest per-
formance yet, plays Harding
as above all a survivor, smil-
ing through pain and prejudice
as she pursues her dream, only
to be dragged down by those
around her. She’s a punching
bag who should be pitied, but
is instead made a punchline
when the Coen brothers-esque
scheme by Gillooly — like-
wise a victim of his associ-
ates — and bodyguard Shawn
Eckhardt (Paul Walter Hauser)
rapidly spins out of control.
“I, Tonya” has fun with the
various versions of the Ker-
rigan attack, treating it like
“Rashomon” for idiots. But
the main takeaway is a believ-
able one: that Harding, just
23 at the time, deserved bet-
ter than yet another beat-down
meted out by a much-enter-
tained public.
US officials investigating Oregon marijuana operation
Cottage Grove
asked for
federal help
By ANDREW SELSKY
Associated Press
SALEM — Federal offi-
cials are investigating a mar-
ijuana processing facility in
Oregon after an explosion
there injured a man who was
previously convicted in a
money laundering operation
linked to pot-trafficking.
The probe is a fairly rare
instance in which U.S. officials
are investigating a marijuana
case in a state where pot is
legal. Federal enforcement of
U.S. laws that ban possession
and distribution of marijuana
is restricted by the U.S. Justice
Department, but is permitted
when marijuana is being dis-
tributed to other states and in a
few other situations.
Police in Cottage Grove
called on the U.S. Drug
Enforcement
Administra-
tion for help after fire offi-
cials found hundreds of mar-
ijuana plants growing inside
the building where the explo-
sion occurred in November.
The explosion burned a man
who was on parole after serv-
ing a 90-day sentence in the
money laundering operation,
The Register-Guard reported.
“We have a large amount of
marijuana grows,” Capt. Doug
Skaggs of the Cottage Grove
Police Department said in a
telephone interview. “We’re
not different than everyone
else (in Oregon).”
Skaggs said that due to
manpower issues, the police
department often liaises with
the DEA.
A report by The Associated
Press in August showed that
large amounts of marijuana are
being smuggled out of Oregon,
although what percent of the
tons grown in the state is traf-
ficked is hotly debated. Local
law enforcement in Oregon
is often too strapped for per-
sonnel and funds, and is busy
with other investigations and
mindful of restrictions against
searches without cause, to
figure out which grows are
registered and legal and
which are illegal.
When DEA agent Sean
Cummings got a warrant the
day after the explosion and
searched the building, he found
728 growing pot plants, 1,200
pounds of marijuana, and mar-
ijuana extracts, according to
federal court documents. That
address was not authorized by
Oregon authorities to grow or
process marijuana, the court
documents say.
Eric Scully, who was
burned on the face and hands
in the explosion which was
apparently caused by combus-
tible materials used to make
marijuana oil, had been on
parole after accepting a plea
agreement in federal court last
year. Investigators say he had
shipped marijuana grown in
Oregon via the mail to states
where it remains illegal. Cot-
tage Grove is also next to
Interstate 5, a major drug-traf-
ficking route.
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