Spring time… it’s been a gorgeous week this week and that’s had me thinking about outside a lot. The outside has moved my thoughts to the film Out of Africa (no one said my mind worked in the most logical of ways). This film has some of the most...
Agent Provocateur album (yes, my first version of this was vinyl, not a CD). I got into the band a few years before when 4 came out back in ’81. It was hard to not get into the hits on that album with “Urgent” and “Juke Box Hero.” Agent...
On Dancing with the Stars this week one of my very faorite dance troupes performed: The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre. I first discovered them when I was in college and they performed at the University of Alabama. I was blown away by the choreography, the music,...
With Horton Hears A Who on the big screen it seemed the perfect time to look at a live action Horton, along with other Dr. Seuss characters, that populated the 2000-01 musical Seussical the Musical. Among the show’s creators were Monty Python’s Eric Idle...
I’m not sure what spurred this run of dance movies (maybe the return of Dancing with the Stars), but it has been fun and I’ve got one for this week too. Back in 2000, Center Stage was released. It’s sort of like Fame as students work to get into a...
Last week I wrote about the 80s dance movies. There is one more, but it deserves special treatment because of the mini-empire it spawned. Fame is the forerunner to the High School Musical craze of today.Fame started out as a film in 1980. It followed the high school...
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