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Old 04-23-09, 11:27 AM
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Fame (Tanchaoren, 2009) — Remake of the 1980s musical


HD Trailer | IMDB | 25 September 09

A reinvention of the original Oscar®-winning hit film, Fame follows a talented group of dancers, singers, actors, and artists over four years at the New York City High School of Performing Arts, a diverse, creative powerhouse where students from all walks of life are given a chance to live out their dreams and achieve real and lasting fame…the kind that comes only from talent, dedication, and hard work. In an incredibly competitive atmosphere, plagued by self-doubt, each student’s passion will be put to the test. In addition to their artistic goals, they have to deal with everything else that goes along with high school, a tumultuous time full of schoolwork, deep friendships, budding romance, and self-discovery. As each student strives for his or her moment in the spotlight, they’ll discover who among them has the innate talent and necessary discipline to succeed. With the love and support of their friends and fellow artists, they’ll find out who amongst them will achieve Fame.

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Hey, look! Debbie Allen is in this one too.
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Re: Fame (Tanchaoren, 2009) — Remake of the 1980s musical

Great. Taking yet another R-rated property from the 80's and turning it into a movie for pre-teens.
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"Fuck you Leroy, I ain't spending four fucking years in this ass-licking school'
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Re: Fame (Tanchaoren, 2009) — Remake of the 1980s musical

so... will this feature all new songs or is this the Broadway version of the movie/tv show of same said title?
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Re: Fame (Tanchaoren, 2009) — Remake of the 1980s musical

I would only watch this on DVD because it has Kerrington from SYTYCD in it.
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Re: Fame (Tanchaoren, 2009) — Remake of the 1980s musical

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so... will this feature all new songs or is this the Broadway version of the movie/tv show of same said title?
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Re: Fame (Tanchaoren, 2009) — Remake of the 1980s musical

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HD Trailer | IMDB | 25 September 09

A reinvention of the original Oscar®-winning hit film, Fame follows a talented group of dancers, singers, actors, and artists over four years at the New York City High School of Performing Arts, a diverse, creative powerhouse where students from all walks of life are given a chance to live out their dreams and achieve real and lasting fame…the kind that comes only from talent, dedication, and hard work. In an incredibly competitive atmosphere, plagued by self-doubt, each student’s passion will be put to the test. In addition to their artistic goals, they have to deal with everything else that goes along with high school, a tumultuous time full of schoolwork, deep friendships, budding romance, and self-discovery. As each student strives for his or her moment in the spotlight, they’ll discover who among them has the innate talent and necessary discipline to succeed. With the love and support of their friends and fellow artists, they’ll find out who amongst them will achieve Fame.

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The High School of Performing Arts (P.A.) really doesn't exist anymore in the form it did when FAME was originally produced. Sometime in the mid-80s, the school was merged with its sister school, High School of Music and Art (M&A), which had been housed in a building up in Harlem, into a new building behind Lincoln Center and officially called the Fiorello H. LaGuardia School of the Arts. P.A. was still something of its own entity in the school in the early years of the new bldg., but that changed after everybody from the original P.A. graduated. It's now divided into Dance, Drama, Music/instrumental, Music/vocal, and Art departments. So whatever divisions that once existed between P.A. and M&A have largely faded. It's a huge school now, not the little bldg. on W. 46 St. where P.A. was when FAME was filmed, and it's more like a typical NYC specialized high school (like Stuyvesant, for instance) than it used to be.

I went to P.A. before FAME and the school was a helluva lot more fun than FAME made it out to be. My daughter went to LaGuardia some 20 years after FAME.

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Re: Fame (Tanchaoren, 2009) — Remake of the 1980s musical

oh so you did just spontaneousily break out into song and dance in front of the school

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Re: Fame (Tanchaoren, 2009) — Remake of the 1980s musical

Originally Posted by Giles
oh so you did just spontaneousily break out into song and dance in front of the school

We kept that stuff inside the school. The cops outside working the Times Square beat were a little tougher back then.
And so were the construction workers across the street. They once threw stuff at us when we were demonstrating against the Vietnam War or something outside the school. They were on the upper floors of a skyscraper under construction on 6th Ave. and they threw rivets at us. You can imagine what would have happened if those things had hit us from that distance. The principal had to go over and summon the foreman and bring him into the school and read him the riot act. (Hmmm...now that I think of it, maybe it wasn't such fun after all. But at least it wasn't boring.)

But yeah, we would do musical numbers and routines on our own in the school during lunch hour and rehearsal periods. Just like a movie.
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We kept that stuff inside the school. The cops outside working the Times Square beat were a little tougher back then.
And so were the construction workers across the street. They once threw stuff at us when we were demonstrating against the Vietnam War or something outside the school. They were on the upper floors of a skyscraper under construction on 6th Ave. and they threw rivets at us. You can imagine what would have happened if those things had hit us from that distance. The principal had to go over and summon the foreman and bring him into the school and read him the riot act. (Hmmm...now that I think of it, maybe it wasn't such fun after all. But at least it wasn't boring.)

But yeah, we would do musical numbers and routines on our own in the school during lunch hour and rehearsal periods. Just like a movie.
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Re: Fame (Tanchaoren, 2009) — Remake of the 1980s musical

Originally Posted by Shilex
I would only watch this on DVD because it has Kerrington from SYTYCD in it.
Same here.

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