There are a lot of things that are popular and commercial, but aren't very good. Or are just good enough. Consider Justin Bieber: It's not that the kid isn't talented; it's that he's only just talented enough.
This is the '80s, and girls aren't like Sandy in Grease, ditching their poodle skirts to impress some guy. No. You're like Molly Ringwald, and guys like you for just doing you.
Rachel Bilson sat down with Michael Strahan and Kelly Ripa on "Live! With Kelly and Michael" to promote her returning CW series "Hart of Dixie" on Mon...
In the documentary Welcome to Kutsher's: The Last Catskills Resort, filmmakers attempt to revisit a time gone by and answer the question, "What was it about the Catskills, and Kutsher's in particular, that made going there such a unique and cherished experience?"
In 2009, after 23 years of marriage, my husband and I split up, my mother died and I went into a deep hole. It was a time of intense grief and I just had to work my way out of it, slowly. And then, in the summer of 2010, I was invited to dance in a flash mob in Washington Square Park.
Nostalgia alert! "Dirty Dancing" turned 25 on Tuesday, prompting many to scratch their heads and mutter something about time flying while reminiscing ...
From the moment we laid eyes on Baby in the backseat of her family's car, reading a book and hugging her father while "Big Girls Don't Cry" played in ...
Dirty Dancing was rejected 43 times. "What they all said was, āItās small and itās soft.ā These are all men -ā just think of sexual organs, they donāt want small and soft, they want big and hard."
This August marks the 25th anniversary of the iconic film "Dirty Dancing." The cult classic starring the late Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey was mad...
Kenny Ortega faced 20 bright-eyed dancers, explaining that what was undoubtedly their dream job -- dancing in the remake of Dirty Dancing -- was no longer happening.
Ah, Summer love. It seems the hotter the season, the steamier the romance. There are all kinds of Summer-set romances, and most of us have experienced...
There's a scene in my all-time favorite '80s movie, Parenthood, where Dianne Weist's character Helen helps get her teenage daughter (played by Martha ...
From the 1920s to the 1970s, the Catskills were full of resorts popular amongst New York Jews--so popular in fact, the area came to be known as "The B...
If I learned anything from the 3D trend, it's that every big movie deserves a second rodeo if it comes back in a different form. But further pondering led me to realize that not every film would be quite so successful sans dialogue.
A northwest suburban Chicago high school has become the nation's latest to approve a ban against "grinding" and other moves simulating sex acts at sch...
With Friday's release of the Julianne Hough-starring "Footloose," we take a look back at one of our favorite genres cinema ever spawned: the dance mov...
Last month, Lionsgate announced plans to indeed remake Dirty Dancing. With pretty much every beloved 80s film going under the remake knife, it was only a matter of time before the adventures of Johnny and Baby got the revamp treatment.
On set at the Today Show this morning outside of 30 Rock in New York, Ryan Gosling demonstrated why he is worthy of the "gorgeous hunk of man candy" t...
The way to do a remake right, as evidenced by the 2004 monstrosity Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, is to give it a colon, a subtitle, and a plot preferably set outside U.S. borders. This alerts the potential viewer to the fact that it will suck.