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...could still cull a comely quintet of nominees from the current gang of 15--including Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Mad Hot Ballroom, Murderball, Rize and, of course, March of the Penguins. Perhaps Herzog can take solace in the fact that, as those penguins proved, persistence is everything...
...appears at a trendy “underground” club, populated by more trans-ethnic style mavens, including dancers from David LaChapelle’s recent documentary “Rize,” the most probable seed for this video’s cash-in concept...
...experiencing a dance fever unmatched since the days of, well, Dance Fever, with ballroom classes at gyms and movies like Rize and Mad Hot Ballroom in theaters. Of course, any show that presents Bachelorette Trista Sutter as a celebrity is not going to bother too much with terpsichorean authenticity. Did you know that Three Times a Lady was a waltz? That Britney Spears' Toxic was a tango? That the jive was, per the narration, "a fast-paced rock-'n'-roll extravaganza born in the 1920s"? Or had you forgotten there was rock 'n' roll in the 1920s...
...government sponsorship which was drying up anyway) and found allies in the marketplace. Mark Zupan, one of the "stars" of Murderball, will be part of Reebok's "I Am What I Am" campaign. And at the Cinemark multiplex in Long Beach, Calif., a 6-ft. cutout display of Rize rubs cardboard shoulders with a life-size Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie...
Such is the premise of Rize, which like several other summer docs (Rock School and Murderball), works up to a big showdown. The warring factions aren't the Bloods and the Crips but the Clowners and the Krumpers, right. And the tournament is Tommy's Battle Zone V, which attracts thousands of fans who vote on each one-on-one dance-off with the volume of their cheers. A documentary that is all action, no narration, Rize lobs stereotype grenades--political (blacks in whiteface) and social (Tommy in clown garb at a funeral service)--that are defused by the genial...