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Sex and the City Counter-Programming: Saving Boyfriends

By Karina Longworth posted 1 year ago

First of all, I don’t know what kind of girl out there thinks it’s a good idea to drag their boyfriend to see Sex and the City. If you have no female friends to accompany you on such a journey, chances are you’re not the type of broad who’s really going to get anything out of it anyway; if you STILL feel like you have to see it, are you really so insecure that you can’t go to a movie by yourself? Really, it doesn’t matter. Whatever you’re thinking, please take this advice: there are things you and your boyfriend just don’t need to share. Give him the night off.

Of course, there will be women out there who don’t heed such advice, and for the poor boyfriends caught up in their careless webs, at least there’s something of an outplan. We got a press release at Spout HQ this afternoon about a promotion spearhead by Geek Squad––yeah, as in the orange shirts from Best Buy––designed to “save” the young men of America from a weekend full of “torture” outside the jurisdiction of the Geneva Convention. Sounds noble, right? Or at least, as noble as any totally opportunistic marketing scheme could be. Details after the jump.

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Watch the Old Hairspray Whilst Waiting For The New Hairspray

By Karina Longworth posted 2 years ago

I saw the new Hairspray yesterday. I don’t want to blow my wad just yet, as I’ll be talking about it with Stu VanAirsdale next week on ReelerTV, but here are a few preliminary thoughts:

1) The John Waters original version of Hairspray appears to be up on YouTube in its entirety, and I’ve embedded one of my favorite chunks above. Penny and Tracy are making out with their new boyfriends in a rat-infested alley. A drunken hobo ambles by, and that’s romantic; Tracy’s mom drives down the alley looking for her daughter, and it’s time to run. Seeking shelter, the kids stumble into a beatnik lair, and stumble right out again when shit gets too weird. It’s the perfect encapsulation of Waters’ nuanced vision of the young vs. old/class vs. race/culture vs. subculture paradigm, and it’s miles beyond anything this new version has up its sleeve. Spoiler alert: the new Hairspray doesn’t even have beatniks.

2) That Zac Efron kid is amazing. He’s the new Gene Kelly. I can’t wait for him to get old and play the dashing American in a postmodern French homage to his earlier successes. At least then maybe my creepy old lady crush will seem a little bit more age appropriate.

3) Not once, in a hundred years of cinema, has a fat suit actually been funny. Prove me wrong and I’ll give you $100.***

***Reward only realizable if you can get me to admit defeat.

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