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This weekend we decided to watch the 1980 film classic "Fame". There were a couple of reasons that we decided to watch this great film too. The first and obvious reason is that this movie is a great movie. The second reason is that a remake of the film also called Fame will be released on September 25th, 2009. As a result we thought that we should watch the 1980 movie and review it then do the same thing with the new release in September as well.

The 1980 film "Fame", which is written by Christopher Gore and directed by Alan Parker. The movie also stars Eddie Barth, Irene Cara, Lee Curreri, and Gene Anthony Ray amongst others and showcased their talents. The movie is about the waning days of the New York Highschool for the Performing Arts and its student body and was definitely ahead of its time.

In the 80’s you never heard or saw a movie about the performing arts such as dance, music, and acting. This film gives a poignant insight into what it takes in dedication to make it in an environment like that, which also offers an academic education too. There is a gritty realism regarding the lives of both the students and faculty in this institution of higher education, but is also very entertaining to watch. It will also make an inspiring artist think twice about their personal dedication to the arts before taking the plunge into this type of education.

The new release has stars from many different genres in the performing arts as well. In addition to Kherington from So You Think You Can Dance Season 4, there is also Naturi Naughton, Collins Penne, and Kay Pannabaker just to name a few of the students. Playing the teachers is world renowned choreographer Debbie Allen, Charles Dutton, Kelsey Grammer, Megan Mullaly, and Bebe neuwirth. There is certainly an abundance of talent in this remake of the 1980’s film "Fame" and promises to be a very entertaining and insightful film.

That is all for today on Simple Man Entertainment my friends and I hope you have all enjoyed this post, and I also hope that you all enjoy the video and trailers too. I will be back again very soon so have an awesome day and CIAO4NOW!!!!!

The better half and I were sitting on the couch Saturday night after those teenage Frankenstein’s of ours sacked out and we had finished with our family and financial responsibilities for the day. We were trying to decide what to do in the way of entertaining ourselves, and while we have many options at our disposal we decided to find a movie to watch. The movie we settled on was “Swing Vote” with Kevin Costner.

“Swing Vote” is not a new release and has been out for about 10 months. The film stars Kevin Costner and has a whole host of great actors in supporting roles. Kelsey Grammer plays Republican President Andrew Boone and Dennis Hopper plays Democratic Presidential nominee Donald Greenleaf. Stanley Tucci and Nathan Lane play their respective Chief of Staffs.

This story is set in a little New Mexico town called Texico. Bud Johnson (Kevin Costner) appears to be the town slacker who doesn’t seem to care about anything but drinking beer and fishing. Bud’s daughter Molly who is played by Madeline Carroll is about the only one who cares about him and takes care of them both. Molly Johnson is also very serious about hers and his obligations including Bud’s right to vote, which he appears to avoid at any cost. His friend Walter (Judge Reinhold even thinks he is a joke.

On voting day in Texico Bud not only loses his job, but gets drunk and passes out in his truck, and forgets to meet his daughter at the polling station like he promised. At that point Molly takes it upon herself to vote in his place but runs into some technical difficulty LOL. What follows is a very comical series of events and errors in poor Bud and Molly’s life. These two even have the candidates changing platforms to stand on issues that their parties would not usually support.

They both meet the President and his challenger. They also get to meet the NASCAR King Richard Petty and Willy Nelson speaks to Bud on TV. Unfortunately Bud is not taking any of this very seriously. Meanwhile Molly is doing all of the talking and thinking for her dad, and is becoming more unhappy by the day as they lead up to Bud’s day to vote for the next President, because his vote decides who wins.

Throw into the mix a selfish TV station manger played by George Lopez who dreams of getting back to a major market and his favorite female reporter who originally breaks the story Kate Madison (Paula Patton) who almost gives up her professional ethics to keep control of the story and almost jeopardizes Bud’s chance to vote and it gets hairy for Bud, because Molly finds out and runs away to her mother. Luckily Bud gets her back in time to host a televised debate of the two candidates.

The great thing about this flick besides an awesome cast of actors is the fact that both conservatives and liberals are featured in the film. Another thing is the fact that they all played very well together and in the end and at the end the film remained independent of Hollywood partisan politics. I think that this is a great film and is family friendly also I hope you all enjoy it.

That’s it for Simple Man Entertainment today, but we will se you again soon. Have a good day and CIAO4NOW!!!!!