5. Critics hated the movie — but it won an Oscar. While audiences loved Flashdance, critics weren’t quite so enthusiastic, faulting the movie for having more style than substance. Famed film critic ...
Launcher of a thousand off-the-shoulder sweatshirts, popularizer of leg warmers: it’s “Flashdance” and the film turns 40 this year, just like some of us are or have too. It’s hard to believe a beloved ...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Dig out those leg warmers and headbands — “Flashdance” is coming to Broadway. Producers said Tuesday that the stage adaptation of the 1983 hit movie about a working-class Pittsburgh ...
In the gleam of sweat on bare shoulders, in the sudden snap of a strobe-lit pirouette, in the promise of escape built from steel and longing — there lies Adrian Lyne. To talk about Lyne is to talk ...
FLASHDANCE tells the inspiring and unforgettable story of Alex Owens, a working-class girl from Pittsburgh with a dream of becoming a professional dancer. She works by day as a steel mill welder, and ...
When Flashdance opened in 1983, it inspired a generation to cut up their oversized sweatshirts and don leg warmers. Thirty years later, the look is iconic (see Sexy Flashdance Costume; see also ...
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