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...have bounced back with an album that focuses on more mature themes without ever failing to rock. Frontman Jim Adkins is going to be there baring his soul, are you going to be there to hear it? With Razorlight and Recover. Tickets $20.25. 6:30 p.m. Avalon Ballroom...
...Japanese director Masayuki Suo’s 1996 film of the same title—from which it imports most scenes and some dialogue—the movie ultimately seems as bungling on its feet as many of the characters it portrays. John Clark (Richard Gere) wants to ballroom dance. In Suo’s Japanese film this is understandably mortifying because, as a voiceover tells us at the outset, “In a country where married couples don’t go out arm in arm…the idea that a husband and wife should embrace...
...Japanese director Masayuki Suo’s 1996 film of the same title—from which it imports most scenes and some dialogue—the movie ultimately seems as bungling on its feet as many of the characters it portrays. John Clark (Richard Gere) wants to ballroom dance. In Suo’s Japanese film this is understandably mortifying because, as a voiceover tells us at the outset, “In a country where married couples don’t go out arm in arm…the idea that a husband and wife should embrace...
...election years. One spectator was Tom Goetz, a former member of Republicans Abroad whose anger over Iraq, where his son is a U.S. intelligence officer, has prompted him to support Kerry. "I never saw this much interest and conflict among the two sides," he says, looking around the crowded ballroom. For Americans in 2004, political passion doesn't stop at the water's edge...
Chelsom attempts to baste this absurdity—which has little basis in a culture where ballroom isn’t taboo—in the easy comedy and gentle camp of a date movie. After an hour and a half of marination, what comes out of the oven is something turgid and weirdly bent out of shape...