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...this puts Sony Pictures in the ambiguous position of being simultaneously red-hot and not exactly. After the studio releases Zorro and Godzilla next summer, it's not clear what major projects it will have on its menu. In an industry that retains heat about as well as plastic, the cry is predictable: Show us the movies...
...numbers. One long-haired, bandanna-wearing cast member performs a high-powered solo number for two feet and two brooms; four ornery performers challenge each other to outdo one another in playing matchbooks like maracas. We get solo tap-dancing in heavy work boots, a symphony with drugstore-issue plastic bags and an impressive spotlight number in which a single dancer drums up a storm--using only his hands and his own body as instruments...
...trash bins, street signs, scaffolding and stoplights--itself becomes a part of the show. At the halfway point, the cast drums a loud, brilliant, exuberant number against these street artifacts while literally suspended from the scaffolding. And in the show's final, climactic piece, everything from the man-size plastic dustbins on the ground level to the tin trash cans suspended overhead becomes a part of the show, as trash-can lids, hubcaps and more exotic instruments are marched in from offstage...
Perhaps more to the point, you might try sitting down with you roommates and a couple of used newspapers or CVS plastic bags and seeing if you can figure out how to jam with them...
...excluded from the lavish world that Norfleet has put on display. Two women's backs block the foreground. All we catch is the smoke of their cigarettes trailing up into the sky. One woman, her skin as taught as plastic surgery might allow, stares virtually through us. Her sunglasses shade her from the sun and the world as the viewer knows...