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...when a bright, shining new baseball movie hits the screen, why aren’t we all drawn toward the theater on merry waves of nostalgia? Take Disney’s new (but old-sounding) The Rookie. A true story, it stars Dennis Quaid as Jim Morris, a teacher and former pitcher. Long sidelined by an injury, he promises the struggling high school team he coaches that if they win their championship, he will make a final bid at the pros. Why, when I read the synopsis, did I groan aloud...
Instead, we find a movie that handles its stuff-of-legend material with modesty, even restraint. This should make Disney doubly proud, for its story is not only classic but also authentic. In a recent roundtable interview, Jim Morris himself spoke to the film’s accuracy. “By and large, the movie’s dead on. It’s my life, so I guess I’m the biggest skeptic, [and] I think it’s fantastic. I called my mom after [seeing the final cut] and told her, you?...
...piece in particular had the dancers perfectly representing the sounds of the music with the movements of their bodies: “Percussive Us,” choreographed by Jeff Shade, Dance Program instructor and Bob Fosse protégé. In this piece, Shade used music by Jim Perry that was a series of percussion riffs strung together. The dancers wore black costumes and moved in unison to different drumbeats at the beginning of the number. As the beat or the instrument in the song changed, the dancers adapted their movements to embody each particular instrument...
...Even the biggest stars still care because there’s an element of prestige in the title “Oscar-winning actor/director/costume designer” that can’t be derived from being the highest-paid or even the most popular. How else can you explain Jim Carrey’s pitiful attempt at serious acting in last year’s The Majestic...
...joining the Broncos, located in Kalamazoo, Mich., Tall will be moving closer to his family. He will be working under defensive coordinator Jim Knowles...