Classic Movie Scenes in Legos
Posted on October 18, 2014 at 3:59 pm
From Morgan Spence
Posted on October 18, 2014 at 3:59 pm
From Morgan Spence
Posted on January 24, 2014 at 3:59 pm
Residents of a German home for seniors have re-created twelve classic movie poses for a calendar. The models range in age from 75 to 98, and the movies they pay tribute to include “Titanic,” “Easy Rider,” “The Seven Year Itch,” and “Dirty Dancing.” Be sure to check out the full gallery.
Posted on January 9, 2014 at 3:59 pm
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Posted on August 17, 2011 at 12:42 pm
Dirty Dancing (1987) is an iconic and enormously influential film, now scheduled for a remake, directed by the choreographer of the original film. (We will not discuss the awful sequel, though you should listen to “Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me’s” Peter Sagel tell his story about it how he accidentally sort of wrote it.) Jezebel called “Dirty Dancing” the greatest movie of all time. The Jewish publication The Tablet has a piece by Stephanie Butnick called “Is Dirty Dancing the Most Jewish Film Ever?”
She is speaking of cultural Judaism rather than theological or spiritual Judaism. Butnick says:
A week ago, I told Eleanor Bergstein, the writer and co-producer of the incredibly popular film Dirty Dancing, that when I first saw the film years ago, I hadn’t realized how heavily influenced it was by Jewish culture. She beamed, as she had the entire evening, and assured me it was a seriously Jewish movie. So Jewish, in fact, that none of the characters ever need to explicitly mention their Jewishness—they’re spending the summer at Kellerman’s resort in the Catskills, after all, and, Bergstein pointed out proudly, milk and meat are never served in the same scene. It’s a Jewish film, she explained, “if you know what you’re looking at.”
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Calling Dirty Dancing “a very American film,” Bergstein described it as the story of a young girl who took her life in her hands and ran with it, no matter what it cost her. (As Carmon helpfully contextualized long before the screening, “The daughter of the first generation of American Jews to read widespread upper-middle class prosperity, if not elite cultural acceptance, she is swathed in a pre-Kennedy assassination liberalism.”)
Posted on September 14, 2009 at 10:43 pm
Patrick Swayze died today as he lived and performed, with class and grace.
Swayze’s association with iconic appearances in Dirty Dancing, Road House, Point Break, and Ghost
are so towering that we forget sometimes what range and skill he showed as an elegant drag queen in To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar, as a motivational speaker with a dark side in Donnie Darko, and as an eager finalist for a job as a Chippendale’s dancer on “Saturday Night Live.” No one could say that line about putting Baby in the corner and make us believe it like Swayze. He was a superb performer and a class act. He handled his illness with dignity and courage. I wish there was a psychic like the one Whoopi Goldberg played in “Ghost” who could bring him back for just one more dance.