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...worst of times; it is the best of times. Britain and its film industry are mired in an economic funk, and sympathetic Englishmen like Filmmaker John Boorman (The Emerald Forest) are detecting a "national malaise" in which "all our actions are punitive. We are intent on punishing one another, exacting penance." This flagellation is most evident in a trio of new British films. The wave of ironic celebrations of the imperial past (Chariots of Fire, A Passage to India, The Jewel in the Crown on TV) has ebbed, and on the shore we find the carcass of a small, irrelevant...
What follows, listeners know, will be two hours of Keillor and his friends, which is to say of honky-tonk piano, jazz, mournful old Protestant hymns and country music, much of it from some fairly strange countries. This flow of funk is interrupted by loopy commercials for the Deep Valley Bed, the kind with the old-time mattress that sags in the middle, making prolonged marital discord impossible; Bertha's Kitty Boutique, where doting and guilt-ridden cat owners can find, among other cossets, a special cat ice cream called Gatto Gelato to cool kitty's tongue on hot days...
...Ralph Farquhar wrote the script; Michael Schultz he directs.)/ And the boys who made the noise are in their very own show:/ Run-D.M.C., the Fat Boys, Kurtis Blow./ Then there's Blair Underwood, a kind of Poitier hunk,/ And Sheila E. (Prince's princess) in her foppery funk./ Now there've been fights at the Plexes, kids've got out of hand,/ But they must've spiked the sodas at the popcorn stand/ Because this movie has the innocence of bygone years,/ Like the films of Fred (Rock Around the Clock) F. Sears./ I mean they even...
CDT’s spacing gets off slightly during the routine’s third section, a funk piece; one dancer is just enough off the rest of the team to warrant notice. With a huge screen that projects the camera’s-eye view of the event both as each team is performing, even the smallest mistakes are hard to miss...
Each team’s performance must not be over two minutes and 15 seconds, and must incorporate a 30-second section of “pom”-style dancing, a 30-second jazz section, and a 30-second funk section. Pom is more precise, with straight-angled jumps and props, while the funk section incorporates hip hop moves and contemporary pop music...