By Andrea Baylis

Zigga zig huh. That’s what they said. Posh, Baby, Scary, Ginger and Sporty: those spunky English girls called Spice and their big f***ing shoes. All sparkly and spandexed and with aerosol galore, as of this writing the Spice Girls are no more. And although the zigga zig huhs made no sense, we listened. We listened a lot. Damn those catchy songs.

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By James Fagan

No surprise here, this movie rocks your face off. If you have a problem with that, if you don’t like your face being rocked right off of your head, then just don’t go.

Step Up works just like porn. Get from one dance scene to the other with as little complicated a plot as possible and everyone can have a good time. Plus, the characters of Step Up 2: The Streets are all wearing just around the same amount of clothes as they would in Step Up 2: The Porn.

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By Edward Staiger

Directed by Mark Robson

Starring Patty Duke, Barbara Parkins, Sharon Tate, Susan Hayward

Going out on a limb can kill you. That’s exactly what happened to Patty Duke when destiny called and she agreed to star in what was then considered perhaps the hottest film project of the year. 20th Century Fox was bringing to the screen Jacqueline Susann’s racy runaway bestseller Valley of the Dolls, and even though always-ailing Judy Garland had already been dropped from the picture and replaced with less-illustrious but robust Oscar-winner Susan Hayward (I Want to Live, 1958), and even though Duke wasn’t the first actress to be considered for the plum role of Neely O’Hara, a singer-actress hooked by fame and barbiturates (at the same time), she was game. She was eager. Eager as a hurricane. Like Neely O’Hara, Duke was also dancing with her own (and much-publicized) demons - drugs, alcohol, plus, as an extra kick, a diagnosis of manic-depression waiting in the wings. As a child (prodigy), she’d already won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar portraying the young Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker (1962), but that limb she went out on called Valley of the Dolls also had buds - the limb broke, her film career was nipped in the bud. Nevertheless, in this ill-fated venture in which everyone involved also falls flat on their faces but which became a box office sensation, Patty Duke delivers what must be the most hysterically intense performance in film history/histrionics.

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By Nancy Johnson

Walk, run, go see this movie. What do you do when you accidentally cut your brother in half and you want to redeem yourself? You sing songs with sexual innuendos and have tons of kids, that’s what you do. I found this movie cute and refreshing but a bit too long at times even at 96 minutes but well worth the money.

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