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Other than George Plimpton, John Hodgman may have been the only boy who ever grew up wanting to be George Plimpton. "Here was an extremely talented writer and public intellectual who was not averse to having fun in his life," says Hodgman. "To asthmatic children in the world, those Intellivision ads he did were a beacon. There was a tweediness out there that I could be a part...
...movie's nine radio-friendly songs) is to "Stick to the stuff you know... Stick to the status quo." Yet a few kids harbor subversive ambitions. The inner Troy wants to try out for the school musical, and another hoopster has a forbidden love for baking. One boy secretly plays the cello...
...songs in Take the Lead span a wider divide: Gershwin and Porter tunes laced with, and sometimes remixed as, hip-hop. The plot elements are virtually the same as in High School Musical: the main boy, who must juggle his old extracurricular activity (here it's thuggery) with a furtive itch to express himself through music; the class-conscious blond who needs a comeuppance; and a climax where three crucial events are occurring with implausible simultaneity. In HSM it's a basketball game, a scholarly competition and the final auditions for the show; in Take the Lead a dance contest...
...Banderas) isn't a tough-talker in the Stand and Deliver or Coach Carter mold. Dianne Houston's script paints Pierre as a gentleman of the old school, who stands when a woman walks by and opens the door for her. "It's called courtesy," he explains to a boy who thinks the new guy is a Martian...
...close-ups because (1) these are nearly prerequisites for MTV videos and (2) Rihanna is so gorgeous that she really doesn’t need to do anything to entertain. Throughout the video she sprawls in a corner and dances in sultry outfits; the lyrics suggest that a boy has her “stressing” and “calling out for help,” though she certainly doesn’t seem to be losing any sleep over it. For Rihanna, a native of Barbados, this video is a departure from the dancehall theme...