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...High School Musical: the very title, proudly generic, cues you to the movie's embrace of antique cliches. So does the plot. Troy (Zac Efron, a cutie who manages to channel both Michael J, Fox and David Cassidy in their early adorable years) is the resident Anglo basketball star - we said it was a fantasy - and Gabrielle (Vanessa Anne Hutchinson, from the Soledad O'Brien breed of smiling semi-hispanics) is the new brainiac, at a school that might as well be called Rainbow Coalition High. The hero and heroine's best friends are African-American; there's a Hollywood...
...Pierre, who volunteers to supervise after-school detention for the high-schoolers (the real Dulaine taught grammar-school kids), has a steely will to match theirs. He will teach them the seven classic ballroom dances: waltz, Viennese waltz, fox trot, swing, tango, rumba and meringay. And if they dedicate themselves to it, they can compete in the city-wide dance-off at the end of the term. One kids sneers: "Music is corny. There's no feeling." To prove he's wrong, Pierre bends and blends. When someone proposes to mix the standards repertoire with a hip-hop beat, Pierre...
...Scare has been replaced by radical Islam and nuclear proliferation. Look at the news, and you’ll find that every large issue in America is related to security in some way. The Dubai port deal, the war on terror, immigration, the Mexican border, and even Fox News’ obsessive forays into random murders, all illustrate this. People are concerned about security because they feel insecure. And so, just as the Argentine society supported the military in 1976, Americans today are too willing to compromise the civil liberties in the name of security. Yet, this solution is shortsighted...
...Another study presented in January suggests the appeal of this kind of debating: People with strongly held beliefs (and who holds to them tighter than a Fox News contributor or a Daily Kos diarist?) love to disagree. An Emory University psychologist found that spotting hypocrisy in an opponent literally tickles the brain's pleasure center. It has "curious parallels with drug addiction" - which may explain a lot about Rush Limbaugh...
...Fox Searchlight broke a Sundance record at the 2006 festival when it paid10.5 million for “Little Miss Sunshine,” no doubt hoping to mimic success found in recent indie sensations like “March of the Penguins,” which commanded a cool $77 million at the box office. Unquestionably, otherwise unknown artists benefit from the media frenzy...