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With five minutes left in the wildest class of the day, Banks goes back behind the piano. "Let's sing the Battle Hymn of the Republic," she says. Khalilah packs her backpack for the next class. Erik leads the song: "Glory, Glory Hallelujah, the teacher hit me with a ruler...
...definitely disconcerting seeing a man throw around a Bible and hymn books," Fauntroy said. "It was something extremely out of the ordinary...
Christopher W. Manhoff, 26, ripped the pages out of a Bible and two hymn books, throwing them into the air as he paced up and down the main sanctuary aisle, according to Police Chief Paul E. Johnson and eyewitnesses...
...falls in love with a pretty girleen (Emer McCourt) who wants to be a saloon singer. If this sounds like the plot of The Crying Game, don't blame scripter Bill Jesse; Riff-Raff was made a year before Neil Jordan's gender bender. Loach's film is a hymn to blue-collar, multiracial mateyness, and you needn't plow through the thickly accented dialogue (subtitled for American ears) to guess his social agenda. The overlords of capitalism are Riff-Raff's real rats...
...Maura, who starred in "Women on the Verge," plays the transsexual Tina with relish. Maura is an actress who, as Almodovar has written, "enlarges in front of the camera." With her wide-eyed insouciance, she looks like the girl-(or former boy)-next-door, whether she's singing a hymn at the altar, snorting a line of coke or vaulting over a bar counter. Banderas (of "Mambo Kings" and "Truth or Dare") is hilarious as the appealingly deranged fan, and Poncelas convincingly portrays the oddly down-to-earth avant-garde director...