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...most part, though, Hollywood films, instead of blossoming into real musicals, content themselves with slipping in a musical moment, a singing epiphany. This is usually a scene where all the lead characters, or at least a large number of them, get together and sing in an otherwise non-singing movie. In "Magnolia," the characters suddenly forget they're in a drama and start singing along to the Aimee Mann soundtrack. In "Beautiful Girls," Timothy Hutton leads his pals in a rendition of "Sweet Caroline." And in "My Best Friend's Wedding" - and this scene is a classic of the genre...
...ingredients to a musical moment. It's a cathartic moment, where we all let go a little bit, drop our guards and our standards. The song involved has to be slightly cheesy or overly familiar, but nonetheless a guilty pleasure, the kind of tune we sing in our showers when there are no people around. They can also feature the kind of songs we sing in our showers when there are people around, because if you're the sort of person that takes group showers, hey, you're not going to get all self-conscious about belting out the chorus...
Writer Ted Conover has authored such books as Newjack, Whiteout and Coyote and regularly contributes to the New Yorker Magazine and The New York Times Magazine. For Newjack, his recent bestseller, Conover took a job as a prison guard at New York's Sing Sing Prison in order to write an investigative look behind the walls of that famed correctional facility...
...gift for anthems and elegies, with stark poetic images in the verses and hum-along refrains of tura-luras and alleluias. As encased in producer Matthew Burn's chugging, clanging percussion, Harris' voice gives testimony to a life of adversity and the ability to smile--or at least sing--through...
...they want to become first-aid instructors or emergency medical technicians. A Mike Tyson look-alike runs a gym and says he's concerned about his clients' cardiovascular health, which probably means he doesn't want to be sued when someone keels over on the treadmill. Two teenage girls sing out, in stereo, "We're in high school," which doesn't make sense--until you think of schools in places like Littleton and Paducah...