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There are the inner-city kids of Rize, who raise local spirits by dressing up in clown costumes and performing an impossibly energetic, strenuously graceful "ghetto ballet." Or the Dominican preteens in New York City who take up ballroom dancing in Mad Hot Ballroom, or the music students in Rock School. And though the quadriplegics who play a brutal form of wheelchair rugby in Murderball are gruff, grown men, they too are capable of uplift. "I'm alive," says one. "I use everything I have, to get through life. That's what we're all here to do. Use everything...
...specialty cinemas. But the new dockers--documentary filmmakers--want to reach everyone they can. "From Day One I wanted to make a film that was for the cineplex, not for the art house," says David LaChapelle, the hip magazine photographer and video director making his feature debut with Rize. "I wanted to make a broad, popular film. I come from pop art, and I wanted to make a film that was popular...
...Nashville, Tenn., one of the local mills advertises a self-rising ingredient for flour and meal known as Hot Rize. For the past nine years, the fortunes of Hot Rize have been rising with a couple of hillbillies-Banjo Player Earl Scruggs and Guitarist Lester Flatt-whose musical style on Grand Ole Opry is uncannily like the gassy product they represent on the show. Scruggs and Flatt are the country's leading practitioners of a particularly corny style of country music known as "bluegrass." And, thanks in large measure to the efforts of the twanging pair, bluegrass is enjoying...
...with such local delicacies as pears and, hazelnuts, the handshaking tactics worked well enough. But in towns, where clouds of policemen sealed him off from the populace, Gulek soon found that the only hands he got to shake were those ..of Republican People's Party committeemen. Accordingly, in Rize, where terraced tea plantations run up into cloud-capped mountains, Gulek decided on a new gambit-shopping. Casually, he strolled into the Rize bazaar to look at the local textiles. He got through three shops, shaking hands with the storekeepers and kissing customers' babies. Then a police officer stepped...
...belle named Madeleine Carroll portrayin a southern girl gone wrong--she had gone up noth to live after her pappy and mammy done diahd. They had her come back speakin a nothen accent and, suh, its a dis-grace, that's what it is, and we all should rize up and defend ouah honor. Any man with any blood of oauh ancestors who's seen goin into this picture will be challenge to a duel by some of us who still remain true to Genel Lee--God rest his soul...