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Doris: I HATE Ralph Garci! I must remember this feeling and use it in my acting!
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Angelo: [Starts playing his son's tape on top of loudspeakers on his cab] My son's music! My son Bruno, Bruno Martelli, he wrote the music! Today 46th street, tomorrow Madison Square Garden!
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Montgomery McNeil: Never being happy isn't the same as being unhappy. Is it?
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Doris Finsecker: I'm about as flamboyant as a bagel.
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Miss Berg: Where's the sweat, Lisa?
Lisa Monroe: I'm working on it.
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Shorofsky: No! No! No! Hold the bow like this! Not like this! This isn't your dick you're holding! It's a violin bow! Hold it with respect, like...
Bruno Martelli: ...Your dick?
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Hilary van Doren: [about Leroy] Son derriere noir... c'est formidable!
Lisa Monroe: Wow, I love your accent. What did you say?
Hilary van Doren: I dig his black ass.
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Lisa Monroe: [talking to a black girl during the audition] I like your nose ring. Did it hurt, or is that ethnic?
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Miss Berg: [to Lisa] Less lip, Monroe, more sweat!
Dancer: [about Miss Berg] She's just a bitch.
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Leroy Johnson: I's young, I's single, and I loves to mingle!
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Coco Hernandez: [the girls are fighting over Leroy] You know what they say? The darker the berry, the sweeter the juice.
Hilary van Doren: Yes, but who wants diabetes?
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Rocky Horror Announcer: Good evening, everyone, and welcome to The Rocky Horror Picture Show!
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Description
At the New York City High School for the Performing Arts, students get specialized training that often leads to success as actors, singers, etc. This movie follows four students from the time when they audition to get into the school, through graduation.
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This early effort by director Alan Parker is lively but jagged as it follows four students through their years in the New York City High School for the Performing Arts. Rather predictably, the kids fall into four clearly defined stereotypes: brazen, gay and hypersensitive, prickly, shy. It makes up for a disjointed presentation with a lot of heart and a great soundtrack (for which it won two Academy Awards). The hopes and disappointments, failures and successes of these teens are fodder for emotional scenes and exuberant dancing in the streets. It also turned out to be the first of many imitators and spawned a popular television series. (It was the breakout film for the short-lived feature film career of Irene Cara, who sang the title song.) --Rochelle O'Gorman
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