'80s-Cinema Dance Purist Fails To Impress 'So You Think' Judges [She's A Maniac]
In a virtuosic performance that recalled Brett's Angry Dance from Flight of the Conchords for its brute strength, physical prowess, and sheer, exhilarating artistry, 25-year-old contestant James Davis of Crossville, TN rendered So You Think You Can Dance's judging panel stunned virtually speechless with a two-minute, 100% irony-free tribute to the Great Solo Movie Dance Sequences of the 1980s that lacked nothing save perhaps an overturned bucket of water and some backlighting. Stunningly, he was not moved on to the next level of competition, but his newly expanded fanbase can take heart, as Davis is still thrilling hungry, Curtain Call Dinner Theater audiences eight times a week in an all-white production of The Last Dragon: The Musical.
The historic takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which could come as soon as this weekend, moved to the forefront of the presidential campaign Saturday.
In the arena that night, the whole last minute was drowned out by cheers — and then when the soaring music swelled, the confetti rained down as the harbinger of balloons and the hopeful first family took the stage, forget about it — it was a perfect end to a convention that last Monday, no one even knew if it would happen. But it did, and I'm so glad to have been there.
