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Couch Potato Pickings | Save the Last Dance, and other dancing movies

Pirouetting, toe-tapping, hoofing, gliding, stepping, strutting. Dance moves in the movies are certainly not in short supply. Ballet meets hip hop in tonight’s dancing drama where Julia Stiles plays a bereaved middle class teen who has her love for dance … Continue reading

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Couch Potato Pickings | Sweet Home Alabama, and other films based on song titles

The classic 1974 song Sweet Home Alabama was a controversial response by the band Lynyrd Skynyrd to Southern Man and Alabama – two songs from the 1970s by Neil Young that express anti-southern sentiments. Read more about that here. Don’t expect any … Continue reading

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News Muse | Fame & the Hollywood recession

‘You’ve got big dreams? You want fame? Well, fame costs. And right here is where you start paying – in sweat!’ It was Debbie Allen‘s tough dance teacher Lydia Grant who’d utter those fame-ous words every time the theme tune … Continue reading

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