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"Milk," the new film about Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man elected to public office in 1978 and later assassinated, is a powerhouse film on the top of many year-end awards, including nominations for the St. Louis Film Critics Awards. While Milk's name is the title, the film is about more than one man and presents gay rights as a human and civil rights issue.
The Fox Theater celebrated the holiday season with the Radio City Christmas Spectacular, featuring the Rockettes, the precision-dancing showgirl troupe that actually began in St. Louis in the early twentieth century. While the show and the Rockettes' Broadway showgirl style is inherently nostalgic, the smiling dancers' skill at precisely-coordinated tap and chorus line of mirror-like high kicks in high heels, which create a percussive sound like rockets going off, is still impressive to watch first-hand.
Everyone has their favorite Christmas time movie. For many of us, that favorite is the perennial Frank Capra classic "It's A Wonderful Life." "It's A Wonderful Life" is actor Mark Setlock's favorite too, as he tells us at the outset of his one-man retelling of the Christmas classic, "This Wonderful Life," the holiday production gracing the Repertory Theatre of St.
Dance St. Louis brought the Paul Taylor Dance Company to the Touhill Performing Arts Center stage to debut a new work by the legendary choreographer. The world premiere was part of a dance program Friday, Nov. 21 at 8 p.m. The program was presented again on Saturday, Nov.
This much is obvious about the newest sympathetic vampire movie to hit screens: it is critic-proof. "Twilight" grossed around $35 million in its opening night, and finished the weekend at $70 million, far beyond other new movies such as the Bond flick "Quantum of Solace" or the animated Disney adventure "Bolt.
One of the best films of this year tells a story about a gay man murdered 30 years ago. "Milk" is based on the story of Harvey Milk, the country's first openly gay elected official. Sean Penn delivers one of the best performances of his career in a film that is as much about gay rights as civil rights, as it is the story of one man.
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