Alan Johnson
História
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Alan Johnson (Ridley Park, PA) is an award winning choreographer, best known for his work on Mel Brooks films and for restaging Jerome Robbins original choreography in live productions of West Side Story in the United States and internationally. Johnson has been linked to West Side Story since making his Broadway debut in the show in 1957. Johnson brought the West Side Story dance style into the mainstream when he choreographed several Gap commercials in 2000. This commercial earned him an American Choreography award. Along with the GAP/WestSide advert, Alan also choreographed commercials for Dubonnet and Freixenet Champagne. He has worked with such performers as Shirley MacClaine, Leslie Uggams, Bernadette Peters, Tommy Tune, Chita Rivera and Ann-Margret. He is a three-time Emmy winner.
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Documentary on the making of Mel Brooks' classic comedy "History of the World, Part 1."
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An hour-long making-of featurette which features interviews and anecdotes from the likes of Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder, Kenneth Mars, Lee "Ulla" Meredith, assistant director Michael Hertzberg, composer John Morris, choreographer Alan Johnson, production designer Charles Rosen, casting director Alfa-Betty Olsen, among others.
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Shirley MacLaine was the product of a strict middle-class background from which she and her brother, the future actor Warren Beatty, escaped into the fantasy world of show-biz. Her ballet training and her long-legged pixie charm led to rapid success on Broadway in musical comedy.
Inevitably, Hollywood called and by 1955 Shirley was cast in Hitchcocks The Trouble With Harry. It wasn't too long before the fine dramatic roles also came to her opposite the most popular leading men of the time, like Fred MacMurray, Jack Lemmon, Frank Sinatra, Clint Eastwood and Robert Mitchum. It was apparent that this once perky gypsy of Broadway would leave her mark as one of the finest actresses of her day, an Academy-Award winner, who is ready and able to tackle any role that seems equal to her intelligence and talent. Her widely varied interests encompass the political, the literary and the mystical.
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In a future in which most water has disappeared from the Earth, we find a group of children, mostly teenagers, who are living at an orphanage, run by the despotic rulers of the new Earth. The group in question plays a hockey based game on roller skates and is quite good. It has given them a unity that transcends the attempts to bring them to heel by the government. Finding an orb of special power, they find it has unusual effects on them. They escape from the orphanage (on skates) and try to cross the wasteland looking for a place they can live free as the storm-troopers search for them and the orb.
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Mel Brooks comprova que é realmente um tesouro magnífico com sua engenhosa e incrivelmente engraçada refilmagem do clássico de Ernst Lubitsch de 1942. Corretamente descrito como "mundialmente famoso na Polônia", o astro dos palcos Frederick Bronski (Brooks) apresenta Pérolas de Hamlet, enquanto sua sedutora esposa e companheira de palco (Anne Bancroft) diverte-se nos camarins com um jovem e encantador aviador (Tim Matheson). Mas tudo isso é interrompido quando a Trupe Teatral de Bronski é alistada para enganar os nazistas e salvar a resistência polonesa. Miraculosamente desafiados por seus duvidosos disfarces, imitações e números musicais estão um amoroso coronel da SS (o indicado ao Oscar®, Charles Durning) e seu terrível colaborador polonês (Jose Ferrer).
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Uma versão barulhenta da história que prova que nada é sagrado - nem mesmo o Império Romano, a Revolução Francesa e a Inquisição Espanhola.
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A salute to movement in various forms, both literal (the physical movement of a dancer or gymnast) and figurative (movement in a relationship between two people).
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When frustrated movie studio mogul Adolph Zitz announces a talent search for a romantic leading man to rival the great Rudolph Valentino, thousands of hopefuls decend upon Hollywood. Rudy Valentine, a neurotic baker from Milwaukee, knows little about romance or acting. But when his wife leaves him for the real Valentino, Rudy goes to outrageous lengths to win the role of a lifetime and win back the love of his life.
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Rock Ridge é uma pequena cidade do oeste americano onde todos os seus moradores se chamam Johnson. A estrada de ferro está prestes a passar pelo local, o que faz com que Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman) aterrorize os moradores. Sua intenção é obter as terras da cidade, que serão bastante valorizadas após a conclusão das obras. Para controlar a situação, o governador William J. Lepetomane (Mel Brooks) contrata um novo xerife, Bart (Cleavon Little). Só que Bart é negro e passa a ser hostilizado pela população racista. Ele recebe apenas a ajuda de Jim (Gene Wilder), conhecido como The Waco Kid, o pistoleiro bêbado mais rápido da região.
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A musical tribute to brothers George and Ira Gershwin
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Max Bialystock (Zero Mostel) é um produtor teatral em uma maré de má sorte, que namora mulheres idosas com dinheiro para conseguir financiamento para suas novas peças. Entretanto, Max realmente acredita ter descoberto uma grande jogada quando conhece Leo Bloom (Gene Wilder), um contador que ao conversar com ele expõe a tese de que um fracasso pode ser mais lucrativo que um sucesso, bastando que se venda o espetáculo para diversas pessoas e fazer de tudo para que ele seja um retumbante fracasso, com sua temporada durando apenas um dia, pois assim não existirá lucro e todo o dinheiro que foi investido irá parar no bolso daquele que vendeu os direitos da peça. Após uma certa relutância, Leo se une a Max para montarem o pior musical que a Broadway já viu: "Primavera para Hitler". História refilmada em Os Produtores (2005).
