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...Ah, those steamy summer weekends, when a battalion of bustling, big-budget Hollywood movies hits the theaters--and many of them tank. But don't feel sorry for those forlorn moguls. Just because a movie stumbles in the U.S. doesn't mean the rest of the world should be spared it. In fact, the voracious appetite for American celluloid in Europe, Asia and South America is turning many a domestic dog into a foreign blockbuster. Herewith a sampling of recent films that enjoyed just such overseas turnarounds...
...Lowell Cunningham's comic-book premise: that extraterrestrials have landed, that they are a scuzzy lot who deserve to be treated like illegal aliens and that the government has an elite corps of FBI-style agents (notably Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones) to keep them in line. Ah, this explains everything: Velcro, liposuction, the microwave oven and why the 1964 World's Fair was held in Queens...
...Ah, the Broadway musical. A sitting-duck target for some pretty unmerciful snubbing (or just plain ignoring) by the magistral proponents of intellectualism and high art. And yet, for the critic who can't resist a good show or the damnably hummable tunes of a Rodgers or a Lloyd Webber, a really professionally staged musical is often a source of lively, if somewhat guilty, entertainment. So it is with the lavish production of the Kern-Hammerstein classic "Showboat" currently playing at the Wang Center through August...
...Ah, my beats. Field hockey, men's basketball and women's lacrosse...
...Ah, prom night! The scent of the corsage, the hum of the limo, the assistant principal manning the Breathalyzer at the gym door. Some things about proms have changed, but the search for the perfect prom dress continues. The big news, according to fashion designer Jessica McClintock, is that glamour and pastels are back. Herewith a tour of prom dresses through the decades...