I've never watched a "Step Up" movie, but I do watch the trailers and think the dancing looks incredible and makes me wonder if maybe I should watch a "Step Up" movie.This trailer for the newest installment, with its sexy class war theme, shows either that the #OWS spirit has been canonized as an accepted cultural reality--just like that all politicians are compromised and that humanity is hurting the planet--or that corporate culture has a China-like way of absorbing its opponents and turning their culture into part of its own.Maybe the answer is up to us. Like the final frame of Watchmen. (The comic.)
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The Texts from Hillary Tumblr page is so good because it does more in one curveball to make HRC instantly, mainstreamably likeable than most of her '08 campaign attempts. The vibe is like a cross between Sue Sylvester and Ving Rhames. Sternly badass, with a waft of irony like cookies baking in a nearby kitchen.
Ralph McQuarrie, whose paintings set the scale and tone for the visuals of Star Wars, died on Saturday at 82 years old. George Lucas on StarWars.com: "When words could not convey my ideas, I could always point to one of Ralph's fabulous illustrations and say, 'Do it like this.'"