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...these sorts of touches that endow the film with genuine Southern charisma and display Crowe’s penchant for detail. “Elizabethtown” signifies a return to more familiar territory for Crowe, whose last film, the 2001 science-fiction adaptation “Vanilla Sky,” was a dramatic departure in material and style: Crowe is an autonomous craftsman who has both written and directed most of his oeuvre, all of which—besides “Sky”—can be classified as romance comedies. For Crowe, tackling...
...with some of her talented black classmates. The musical concludes with the integration of “The Corny Collins Show” and Tracy’s victorious popularity-contest win over arrogant arch-nemesis Amber Von Tussle. While the musical stays afloat with comedic one-liners and sky-scraping coiffures, it’s weighed down by attempting to touch on the more serious subject of southern segregation. While Tracy’s interactions with black classmate Seaweed J. Stubs are filled with elaborate dance sequences and songs with catchy choruses (like “The Blacker...
...even in a van the size of Pavarotti. We entered the palace and immediately realized that this was not just another of the extravagantly fussed-over behemoths that dot Italy like diners on Route 66. Standing in the Cortile d'Onore, with its perimeter framing a perfect square of sky, you feel the exuberance of Renaissance design, the mix of simple geometric forms with impossible parabolic flourishes, like the vaulted ceiling. You also feel the duke. A lengthy inscription runs across the double cornice that trumpets Federico's unrivaled beneficence and undefeated record in battle. To paraphrase, it says...
Each is delicately shaped and crafted by human hands, the thumbprints of the animators often still fresh on the figures. They sit in direct contrast to the overslick sheen of the too-cool-for-grade-schoolers output of the Pixar and Blue Sky studios currently robbing piggy banks across the country...
...near the card-swiper lady. Relative to lasagna-scooping, swiping moves at four times the speed of sound. This way, small girls can get their meat lasagna without holding up the line, and I can actually “fly” by instead of dropping out of the sky...