Friday, November 30, 2007
Fluorocarbons Unleashed!
One does not feed well-executed buffet exclusively of subtitled films and sober auteurists with themes of mortality and queries of existence. Sometimes one has just gotta have fun! And the gang from Hairspray certainly does. Media messages I intercepted in the last couple of months came in two forms, a bunch of nonsense about John Travolta in a fat suit and reviews that this was a very entertaining and clever movie.
There is much to enjoy here. The script is tight and funny. Musically it is fun to hear every Brill building Motown Philly corner Spector riff be recast and sung by likable actors such as Christopher Walken, Queen Latifah, and Nikki Blonsky as the irrepressible Tracy Turnblad. Tomorrow I will probably try to get through Day of Wrath and other sober fair, but tonight it was 1962 , the New Frontier in Baltimore where a change is gonna come, even if the first steps are mainly dance steps on the Cony Collins show where DAs and beehives abound.
posted by well-executed buffet at 8:53 PM
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