Archive for 'Geek Out'
Friday Geek Out: WarGames
After writing about the kooky computer movie Tron last week, I thought I’d go for the more thrilling computer movie WarGames this week. WarGames hit theaters in 1983, the summer after Tron. And what a difference a year makes.
Where Tron was an unrealistic look at computers; WarGames gave audiences a look at something that was [...]
Friday Geek Out: Tron
Summer 1982… 26 years ago… one of the huge summer blockbusters was supposed to be Disney’s Tron. Released in July, it was a pretty huge flop, grossing only $33 million domestically. Audiences just weren’t into spending a couple hours of their summer looking at the Dinsey-ized insides of a computer. To my 14-year-old self at [...]
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Friday Geek Out: Madonna on TV
Madonna released a new album this week, Hard Candy, which features the first single “Four Minutes (To Save the World)” a duet with Justin Timberlake. The requisite video came out with it and with all this Madonna activity it seemed a good time to sing the praises of Madonna’s videos and live performances. Few performers [...]
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Friday Geek Out: Dance
Category: Geek Out, Movies, Theatre | tagged Billy Eliot, Bob Fosse, dance, Dancing with the Stars, video
This is an odd Geek Out, but I feel it has been brewing for quite some time. It really became apparent as I started moving blog entires from the old blog into the new one, that I am pretty obsessed with dance. It’s an obsession I’ve had for quite some time.
Zoom back to sixth grade [...]
Friday Geek Out: Out of Africa
Spring time… it’s been a gorgeous week this week and that’s had me thinking about outside a lot. The outside has moved my thoughts to the film Out of Africa (no one said my mind worked in the most logical of ways). This film has some of the most gorgeous outdoor photography of any film [...]
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Friday Geek Out: Foreigner “That Was Yesterday”
Agent Provocateur album (yes, my first version of this was vinyl, not a CD). I got into the band a few years before when 4 came out back in ‘81. It was hard to not get into the hits on that album with “Urgent” and “Juke Box Hero.”
Agent Provocateur’s first single was the instant classic [...]
Friday Geek Out: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Category: Geek Out, TV, Theatre | tagged dance, Dancing with the Stars, video
On Dancing with the Stars this week one of my very faorite dance troupes performed: The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre. I first discovered them when I was in college and they performed at the University of Alabama. I was blown away by the choreography, the music, everything. It is simply some of the most [...]
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Friday Geek Out: Seussical The Musical
With Horton Hears A Who on the big screen it seemed the perfect time to look at a live action Horton, along with other Dr. Seuss characters, that populated the 2000-01 musical Seussical the Musical. Among the show’s creators were Monty Python’s Eric Idle and along with Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, they created a [...]
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Friday Geek Out: Center Stage
I’m not sure what spurred this run of dance movies (maybe the return of Dancing with the Stars), but it has been fun and I’ve got one for this week too. Back in 2000, Center Stage was released.
It’s sort of like Fame as students work to get into a program at American Ballet Academy (which [...]
Friday Geek Out: Fame
Last week I wrote about the 80s dance movies. There is one more, but it deserves special treatment because of the mini-empire it spawned. Fame is the forerunner to the High School Musical craze of today.
Fame started out as a film in 1980. It followed the high school careers of a group of students at [...]
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