BTW
Hairspray is the modern movie musical for which I've so been longing.
It was shown on a flight I took recently. If it played on every flight I ever took, I would be a happy camper.
I watched it again on Thanksgiving at my folks' house.
Both times I realized about 2/3 of the way through that I'd had a big stupid grin on my face during the entire movie.
Much as I adore musicals, I didn't really want to like it - I've simply an abundance of fondness for the John Waters original. Plus, I didn't find the thought of John Travolta in drag to be hysterically funny solely on principle, as so many seem to have. But, shit, it won me over with the opening number alone. It's really fun, it's really well done, & it's just fantastic. It achieves a rare feat in managing to be super-sweet without being saccharine. Completely simplistic, but if you want, like, "a socialist critique of a capitalist world", go watch G.W. Pabst's film version of The Threepenny Opera & chase it with Dziga Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera or something equally drab.
Just don't invite me, because I'm gonna be busy singing along at the top of my lungs to "Good Morning Baltimore".
2 comments:
First: Awesome. I've been debating Hairspray, but now you've convinced me. I'm really curious what you'll think of Romance & Cigarettes. I didn't really grow up with musicals and for reasons I honestly can't explain, I tend to stay away from them. So this is why I think I really liked R&C given how unconventional it is [for a musical]. Anyway, bumping Hs up on the ol' queue.
Second: I'm mixing post comments. Gasp! Good news it's official. I hope the new-car-getting goes smoothly. Do you have any idea if the Mazda was totaled?
Oh wow, I didn't realize that Romance & Cigarettes is a musical. I'm so there.
I know nothing about the Mazda. It might have been fixable, but I mean, it was also an '85, so I can't imagine it would cost less to fix it than to total it, given its presumably low value. I figure if there's a problem on the liability end they'll let me know; otherwise I ain't even worryin' about it.
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