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Last weekend, when you lined up to see "Meet the Parents," you may not have noticed that "Bring It On" was still playing at the multiplex. Or, with popcorn and Twizzlers in hand, as you rushed to the next showing of "Remember the Titans," you passed by the somewhat windswept theater in which "Bring It On" has been playing since August 22 and didn't stop. And yet the enduring presence of "Bring It On" is remarkable. According to conventional wisdom, it's a movie that should by now have come and gone from theaters, made its video debut...
That audience, of course, was me. Every Wednesday night, I would rush back to my Cambridge apartment, nuke a bag of popcorn, cuddle up on the couch and prepare for Survivor. Although some may consider a two-hour grace period between when my eyes were first glued to the television and when the opening credits for the show began to run to be a little excessive, I assure you the time was well-spent writing letters to CBS concerning how much Big Brother sucked...
...Diet" house, our overstuffed contestants will have to not only survive each other, but also survive a house stocked with everything but carrots and celery. In every corner, there will be pies and pastries, sausage and spam, cotton candy and candy corn, oil-dripping pizza, luscious string cheese, buttered popcorn, greasy potato chips, hot chocolate fudge, marshmallow stashes, twinkies, ho-hos, lard, etc. And to make things even more intriguing, the house also carries a complete indoor gym and a jogging track. After all, even the producers are alert to the fact that the most dramatic moments of the show...
...place but didn't make the same swing. Another ball. Didn't get it. Another ball. Didn't get it. Then he hit another pure shot. A couple of misses. Another pure one. And another. The good swings and shots began coming with greater frequency, like a bag of popcorn taking off in the microwave. "I was able to hit them with different clubs," Woods recalls, "and different shapes--fades, draws." What's more, each shot with the same club flew at the same trajectory and the same distance. He phoned coach Harmon at his Las Vegas base and said...
...budget must be less than the price of a jumbo popcorn bag at the plex. The format is simple: just a fast-talking man (host Ed Grant) and his film clips. But this celebration of "everything from high art to low trash and back again" is the most eclectic and useful movie show on TV. Grant has spotlighted unsung or unseen European and Asian directors, silent classics, favorite divas (e.g., Tuesday Weld) and surreal rarities (a moon-walking midget on the Venezuelan variety show Sensationalissimo!). Grant also pays tribute to "deceased artistes" you might not be aware had died...