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...Tigers' sole nod to their lameness was hiring Mike Veeck, the son of Bill Veeck, the Hall of Fame owner who organized the disco-album bonfire at Comiskey Park in the '70s, to do their promotions. So they did have Duct Tape Night, Magic Night with illusionist Aaron Radatz, a Christian concert after an Angels game and Baseball Card Blitz, where kids under 15 got to trample one another on a field littered with 50,000 packs of baseball cards. But Veeck didn't go far enough. First of all, he should have removed the Tigers from those baseball-card...
Todd Graff leaps offstage with his cinematic directorial debut, Camp. Hailed as the Fame for a new generation, it lives up to its promise as a feel-good, energetic flick about misfit kids who sing and dance their way to a sense of community at a stereotypical theater camp. The requisite gay boys bunk together, with Robin de Jesus’ Michael, a self-doubting Latino, the stand-out performance of the film. Joanna Chilcoat plays Ellen, a love-lorn teenage girl devoted to her gay male campmates, with grace and humor, and falls for the seemingly sole straight camper...
...beyond the pragmatic complications of fame, Farmer has philosophical objections about becoming the star of the show...
...Farmer realizes that the upshot of fame is more widespread awareness of the problems Partners in Health tackles—and, ultimately, more funding for the organization, whose coffers are perennially and intentionally low, as it spends 95 percent of its charity income on its projects. And so, he says, he overcame his distaste for celebrity and cooperated with Kidder...
With a certain wisdom beyond his years, Ganatra seems to be utterly indifferent—almost oblivious—to his increasing fame and handles the pressures of his success more like a humble college sophomore than a vaunted celebrity...