Word: gracefulness
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With energy and grace, the dancers of Ballet Folklorico de Aztlan bobbed, tapped and turned to the beat of traditional Mexican music in a choreographed “Bienvenidos” to students and faculty at yesterday’s Welcome Day for Latinos and Latin American students...
...sense of community at a stereotypical theater camp. The requisite gay boys bunk together, with Robin de Jesus’ Michael, a self-doubting Latino, the stand-out performance of the film. Joanna Chilcoat plays Ellen, a love-lorn teenage girl devoted to her gay male campmates, with grace and humor, and falls for the seemingly sole straight camper, Vlad (Daniel Letterle), the less-than-captivating Romeo of her romance. The theme is somewhat tired—we all know what it’s like to not fit in at high school—but the music and choreography...
...Even most of the "surprise" winners - like Will & Grace's Debra Messing for best comedy actress - had been nominated several times before. And if you were surprised by The West Wing's win for best drama - since even many of its fans thought it had a subpar year - you shouldn't have been. When it comes to picking Emmy winners, there's no substitute for old-fashioned cynicism. Phil Rosenthal, accepting the best comedy trophy for Everybody Loves Raymond, said it all: Emmys do not go to hip, edgy shows. And the Emmys (decided largely by people who make their...
...takes a sinner to appreciate the blinding glare of grace. Cash saw the light in 1967, when he began spending quality time with June Carter, of the legendary country clan the Carter family. Carter urged Cash, who was trying to kick his addiction to prescription drugs, to attend services with her at the First Baptist Church of Hendersonville, Tenn. "He said he didn't think he was ready for that," recalls the church's minister Courtney Wilson. "But she told him they could go late and leave early. They came late and sat in the back." That day marked...
...cinemavens at the Toronto International Film Festival talk about movies with a connoisseur's urgency and will pick a fight over pictures that may never grace a cineplex. Takeshi Kitano's Zatoichi, with the star-director playing Japan's legendary blind swordsman, provoked one such debate. Some said it was too faithful to the old Zatoichi movies to be a true Takeshi film, others that it was too Takeshi to be a true Zatoichi. (No matter: the picture still won the People's Choice plebiscite...