Word: britneyness
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...before it stopped singing. Directors, influenced by European films, pursued "realism" in stories, behavioral acting and sets. Who danced in real life? And who needed the dance metaphor for eroticism, now that Hollywood could show the real thing? So dance disappeared from movies ... and no no no no no, Britney Spears rotating her tush in "Crossroads" is not movie dancing...
...addition to being captain of his cheerleading squad at UT-Austin and a dance coach at three other colleges, Royer has had professional dance experience with the likes of Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez, Ricky Martin, DMX, and Paula Abdul...
...abused by her father). And there will be giggles aplenty at the scene in which our brainy heroine writes a poem with the line, "I'm not a girl, not yet a woman" (which just happens to be a recent Spears hit). But Crossroads delivers on the expected climax: Britney's first kiss with an adult male. It's a Saint Bernard slobberer of a smooch--the tsunami of wet kisses...
There's really no reason to get agitated about Britney's generic music or dreadful new film. Her primary function is not musical or cinematic but educational: to instruct girls in the complex lessons of peer envy and to get 12-year-old boys on the fast track to concupiscence. Similarly, Crossroads, whose $10 million budget was put up by Spears' label, is less a movie than a multimedia branding, an extension of the Britney franchise--a marketing tool, exactly like the singer's Pepsi spots, though without their craft, verve or production values...
...shoot from 24 to 310; 11 will belong to the state-owned BBC. On March 11 the Beeb will launch its first, new national music service in 32 years, the all-digital 6 Music, described as a station produced by and for music enthusiasts - in other words, a no-Britney Spears zone. Meanwhile, Capital Radio, a commercial station, is joining forces with Disney to create Capital Disney, a digital station aimed at the under-16 set (read, Britney welcome...