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 Jean
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6/7/2003 | posted: 10/17/2004 at 9:48:23 AM ET
From the Washington Post, October 17, 2004, by Sarah Kaufman, lamenting the lack of dance in movies:
"Over the last several decades, Hollywood seems to have lost the ability to capture dance on the big screen with any degree of skill and expressiveness...
A dance movie has the power to transport you away from reality, but a great dance movie can also transform reality. The best ones pull ordinary folks out of their dreary drudgery and plunge them into a world of rhythm and emotional abandon. This is the engine that drives [Gene] Kelly's magnificent title number in 1952's "Singin' in the Rain," and, almost three decades later, Steve Martin's Depression-era escapade "Pennies From Heaven" (with an electrifying Bernadette Peters and Christopher Walken in a striptease). Watch this kind of Everyman-turned-song-and-dance-man movie, and the sense of possibility in the daily routine follows you long afterward."
|  SingOutAnnie
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Bradenton/Sarasota, FLA | posted: 10/18/2004 at 10:18:42 AM ET
I spotted that in the Post yesterday too, Jean, and tore it out. Made me want to watch "Pennies" again to be electrified!!
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