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...cold makes the running so much harder. It’s uncomfortable. It’s sort of a unique challenge” Volpe says. “And this year especially, there’s been a lot of ice...
Figure skating is already a strenuous and exciting activity, but it gets even more exciting when you can tear up the ice wearing Timberlands and Converse-style skates. Over-the-top skating outfits can add to the hilarity of any film, and Amy Poehler’s latest venture, “Blades of Glory,” is no exception. And she’s not afraid to admit it.“There are some amazing, uncomfortable costumes,” Poehler says in a phone interview with The Crimson. She recalls one in particular...
It’s a well-known fact that everyone has favorite publications that they don’t admit reading, guilty pleasures ranging from Playboy to “Ice by Ice: The Vanilla Ice Story in His Own Words.”The flip side of this secret indulgence is an intellectual hypocrisy, a tendency to pretend to have read books we’ve never even opened. In any course section there are one or two people that will blithely elaborate their views, completely undeterred by the fact that they haven’t done the reading...
...winsome Jimmy MacElroy (Jon Heder) and bad-boy Chazz Michael Michaels (Ferrell) - get into a brawl on the winners' stand and are forever banished from the male singles category. Three and a half years later, Chazz is drunk and disgraced impersonating a wizard in some Podunk lounge act on ice, and Jimmy is peddling sports equipment at a Ski 'n Shred. But they love skating more than they hate each other, so they agree to become the world's first male-pairs team. "As if skating wasn't gay enough already," a rival snorts...
...Viewers will pick their own favorite bits, and long soft spots. I liked the star skaters' ferociously competitive idiocy. Demonstrating his skin-scalding machismo, Chazz skates on bare feet, then Jimmy does the human luge on his bare chest. The on-ice routines (overseen by Sarah Kawahara, who choreographed some of Michelle Kwan's medal-winning performances) are both plausible and funny. Craig T. Nelson, as the boys' coach, is neither - why is he in a comedy? In this movie, the inspired bits and the misfired ones are so close to each other, you wonder if anybody involved with...