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Also, my husband has gotten me into Busby Berkley musicals, especially ones with Ruby Keeler, who is supreme in our house!
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A Perfect Couple (1979)
Amazing Musical Performance Ted Neely aka Jesus Christ, Superstar
This is unlike any Altman movie I have ever encountered. No snarkiness, no clever dialogue, no overlapping story lines. This is just a nice, simple love story. Paul Dooley is nice as a middle aged man still controlled by his father. Marta Heflin was a harder character to pin down. Maybe it was because I was only concentrating on her excessive thinness (her next role cast her as a concentration camp victim, if that gives you some idea), but I couldn't get a read on her at all. Her face was fairly blank, but her voice was outstanding! She belongs to a communal singing group led by the insanely talented, and so sexy, Ted Neely! We see many of the bands (Keepin Em off the Streets) songs performed in their entirety, and it is fantastic! I will be scouring the internet for copies of their music! Overall, sweet love story,with some nice sibling relations thrown in, but the reason I will keep coming back is the music!
Dance or Die (1987)
AA angle was nice
I love movies about murder and aerobics! This movie fit the bill nicely. The dance troupe had one guy who just sucked. Awful. This movie had moments where you felt like you were watching a Nagel print coming to life. The choreography plot, well, he didn't do a whole lot of practicing for his big debut. I think they needed to spend a lot more time in the studio and less time boning all the chicks. The interesting thing was they really played up the AA meeting angle. Like you really felt like you were at a real Las Vegas, down on their luck, AA meeting. More satisfying that 95% of the crap that passes for movies these days. I would compare this to "Killer Workout" in enthusiasm. No big twist ending, but still a very passable attempt at dialog. I just wanted to get back to the regular AA meeting. Actually, in retrospect (or I am sobering up) there was some witty writing going on in this movie. I liked this movie.