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July 19, 2007
Pull Quote For New Line
"Back in the 1950s, Broadway’s Finian’s Rainbow used song and comedy to more sincerely address the race issue. Hairspray merely wishes it away on waves of phony uplift and processed euphoria."
Armond White
New Line can only hope that ticket buyers get this message loud and clear.
Posted by poland at July 19, 2007 05:49 PM
Comments
New Line has done a good job so far of not selling the race issue. In fact, other than Queen Latifah, they haven't been showing many African-American faces in their TV spots. That's a shame, though, because I think they're not selling the film to an audience that might embrace it. The African-American audience is consistently underrated and I think New Line could have done a better job of showing Elijah Kelley.
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at July 19, 2007 05:59 PM
This is my favorite quote:
"Waters’ Hairspray was a hipster’s retort to Back to the Future—the most brilliantly written American movie of the 1980s—yet never bested its out-front subversiveness."
With Armond, you never know what you're gonna get.
Posted by: jeffmcm at July 19, 2007 06:05 PM
I don't know if BACK TO THE FUTURE is *the* most brilliantly written American movie of the 1980s, but it's certainly one of them.
Posted by: Jeremy Smith at July 19, 2007 07:51 PM
Crispin Glover and the Oedipal aspect of the film are definitely BRILLIANT
Posted by: machiav at July 19, 2007 11:30 PM
Crispin Glover and the Oedipal aspect of the film are definitely BRILLIANT.
Posted by: machiav at July 19, 2007 11:31 PM
I'm waiting for the remake of Hair. Although in this current climate it would probably have to star Jessica Simpson and have a happy ending (wedding).
Posted by: Erin at July 20, 2007 12:38 AM
Most brilliantly written American movie of the 1980s?
How about Stranger Than Paradise? Hannah and Her Sisters? House of Games? Sex, Lies and Videotape? Do the Right Thing? Tootsie? Blue Velvet? The King of Comedy? Lost in America? Used Cars? Ordinary People? The Right Stuff? My Dinner with Andre? Atlantic City? Say Anything...? Airplane1?
Posted by: Jimmy the Gent at July 20, 2007 03:11 AM
Great line from House of Games: "Where am I from? I'm from the United States of Kiss My Ass!" Written by David Mamet, of course. But spoken by Joe Mantegna.
Posted by: Joe Leydon at July 20, 2007 10:43 AM
The funny thing: Hairspray's message doesn't seem to be "the races are equal." It is more like, "Blacks are better."
One of the songs starts off about equality, then veers off into saying how blacks are superior. "The blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice..." Didn't fit.
Posted by: Josh Massey at July 21, 2007 06:33 AM
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