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Billy Elliot, the new British film about an 11-year-old from a coal-mining town who wants to be a ballet dancer, is a prime example of elevated kitsch. Written by playwright Lee Hall, Billy echoes most of the manipulative inspirational films of the past 20 years. The movie could be called Chariots of Flashdance, Strictly Ballet, Smile--Life Is Beautiful! Audience members, already primed to love a losers-win story about a poor boy with big dreams, don't have to bring anything to the film, because director Stephen Daldry does all the work for them. Sentimental movies...
...this goddess? An accomplished charismatizer from Madrid. She was born there 26 years ago to a mechanic and a hairdresser, and named after a sweet dirge by poet-bard Joan Manuel Serrat ("Penelope, your sad eyes glow at the sound of a distant train"). Comely and outgoing, she studied ballet and acting as a child, was signed by a talent agent at 15 and was soon dancing in a Schweppes orange-soda commercial. At 17 she earned raves as a teen temptress in the loopy sex farce Jamon Jamon. "I cried when the movie ended," she says, in the lilting...
FRANCE FOURTH PLACE Theme: Carmen Inspired by Rodion Shchedrin's ballet Carmen Suite, the routine mimicked flamenco dancing and bullfights...
...jazz dancers. I personally think that it's a conspiracy to put jocks and ballerinas together at work, where they work their lives away, so the only place they can meet people is at work, so they can have little Harvard babies who are either really good at ballet or really good at football...
Contact defies easy categorization. Though it won the Tony Award for Best Musical and is billed as a Dance Play, the show contains almost no dialogue; rather, it consists of three seemingly-unrelated scenes performed in dance. Unlike a ballet, though, the three plots are explicit and are not subjugated to the dance...