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I was not a fan of "Dirty Dancing," although $150 million in 1987 box-office dollars attempted, unsuccessfully, to convince me I was wrong. I thought Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey were terrific dancers, and I thought the plot was a clunker assembled from surplus parts at the Broken Plots Store. The actions of the characters (especially her parents) were so foreordained, they played like closing night of a run that had gone on way too long.
Now here is "Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights." Same characters, new names, same plot, new location. The wealthy Miller family from St. Louis arrives in 1958 Havana with their teenage daughter Katey (Romola Garai). She is courted by young James Phelps (Jonathan Jackson), son of a wealthier family. Has anybody in the movies named Phelps ever been poor? She meets Javier Suarez (Diego Luna), a nice Cuban waiter about her age, and by her clumsiness gets him fired. But . . .
Well, of course she finds Phelps a bore and Javier a nice and considerate friend, not nearly as sexually vibrant, by the way, as Swayze. Except when he's dancing. She has to choose between the godawful official balls and the excitement at La Rosa Negra, the club where Javier and his friends hang out -- a club not a million miles distant in function from the disco in "Saturday Night Fever."
Can this white-bread American princess learn rhythm? Of course she can, with Javier wading with her into the ocean and teaching her to feel the motion of the waves and allow her body to sway with them, and to listen to the music as if it is the waves, while meanwhile perfecting choreography so complex and demanding that it would have had Rita Moreno, in her heyday, pleading for the Sloan's Liniment.
Is it not clear to all of us that sooner or later Katey and Javier will have to defy social convention and enter the dance contest, and that Mr. and Mrs. Miller will find themselves at the big contest but astonished to discover their own daughter out there on the floor? Of course they will be shocked, but then they will be proud, and Mrs. Miller (Sela Ward), who was a heck of a dancer in her day, will realize that the fruit has not fallen far from the tree, and that Katey must follow her dream, realize her talent, go with the flow, sway with the waves and bring home the bacon.
Meanwhile, in the hills, Fidel Castro readies his assault on the corrupt Batista regime. All very well, and his revolution could have supplied some good scenes, as we know from "Havana" and the "Godfather" saga. But is Fidel really needed in a retread of "Dirty Dancing"? And do the inevitable scenes of upheaval, people separated from each other, confusion in the streets, etc., create tension, or only tedium? How can we get excited about action that the movie isn't even about? Couldn't Castro at least have crashed the dance contest in disguise, like Douglas Fairbanks would have?
Why, then, do I give this movie two stars and the original only one? Because I have grown mellow and forgiving? Perhaps, but perhaps, too, because we go to the movies to look at the pretty pictures on the screen, like infants who like bright toys dangled before them. And "Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights" is a great movie to look at, with its period Havana (actually San Juan, Puerto Rico, with lots of 1950s cars). The dancing is well done, the music will sell a lot of soundtracks, and . . .
Romola Garai and Diego Luna. You remember him from "Y Tu Mama Tambien," and here again he has that quirky, winning charm. She is a beauty and a gifted comedian, who played Kate in "Nicholas Nickleby" and was the younger sister, Cassandra, in the wonderful 2003 film "I Capture the Castle." They must be given credit for their presence and charisma in "Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights," and together with the film's general ambiance, they do a lot to make amends for the lockstep plot. But here's an idea: Rent "Y Tu Mama Tambien," "Nicholas Nickleby" and "I Capture the Castle," and eliminate the middleman.
She then became the subject of the Netflix documentary Homicide: New York, started by Law & Order creator Dick Wolf, which dives into recollections of her death and others in the Big Apple over the years.
The first episode of Netflix documentary Homicide: New York, which originally premiered on March 20, examined the circumstances behind the Carnegie Deli massacre from 2001 that left five people dead.
Stahl first appears in the scene set to The Contours' "Do You Love Me" as fans see her wearing a dark striped shirt, a black belt, and grey pants shortly after The blonde-haired dancer gets down and dirty with a couple of different partners, and she's also seen grooving next to Patrick Swayze's Johnny Castle.
Remember that scene from Dirty Dancing when Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey practice their lifts in a lake? Turns out they weren't the only ones in the water; choreographer Kenny Ortega was right there beside them. The Kobal Collection hide caption
Ortega's dance education began in his living room, where he watched Gene Kelly movies as a child. Ortega later got the opportunity to direct Kelly in the 1980 film Xanadu. Matt Sayles/AP hide caption
Ortega designed big concerts for Michael Jackson, auditioning dancers and overseeing the crew. He was working on Jackson's final tour before the singer died in 2009. Ortega choreographed the smash hit Dirty Dancing and directed all three of Disney's "High School Musical" films.
Years later, Ortega not only met his idol, but actually got to direct him in the 1980 movie Xanadu. It flopped and was trashed by the critics, but you'd never know it to hear Ortega talk about it. Before Kelly signed on, he wanted to meet the choreographer, a day Ortega remembers well:
"He mentored me, and when the movie was over he continued to," Ortega recalls. "He would invite me to his home and we would look at his films together and he would talk to me about how he designed choreography for the camera which was the greatest education I had received up until that point."
One bit of movie trivia many Dirty Dancing fans may not be aware of: That lake was frigid. In fact, Ortega says Grey ended up going to the hospital for hypothermia. "You'd never know it from the glee and the smile on her face, but in fact it was not an easy scene to shoot," says Eleanor Bergstein, who wrote and co-produced Dirty Dancing.
Zac Efron, pictured above attending an event for the cast of High School Musical in 2005, was in his teens when he was cast in the Disney film. He says working with Ortega gave him confidence as a young actor. Mark Mainz/Getty Images hide caption
The movie was made on a shoestring budget. It was cold and rainy on location and Bergstein says none of the studio executives really believed in it. But she says Ortega was always upbeat with the cast and took every aspect of the filming seriously.
"He went over everything with me," Bergstein says. "You know, 'Did Baby dance on her father's feet when she was a little girl?' We went over all the basic subtext of how I wanted everybody to move in it because he wanted to know everything."
Ortega is the ultimate musical theater guy. He was in a professional, stage production of Oliver when he was a teenager and he starred in a touring production of Hair. So it was a no-brainer when he was offered the opportunity to direct a story about the making of a high school musical.
For a certain demographic, High School Musical is Disney's most popular property. Teenagers around the globe saw it, bought the soundtracks, the T-shirts and more. The trilogy launched the careers of Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale and Zac Efron.
"Kenny is the kind of mentor and sort of friend that never shows any limits. He never lets you know your limits," says Efron. (Here's a young Efron performing "Get'cha Head in the Game" in High School Musical.)
Ortega's ability to nurture future stars and create films that teens around the world want to see has meant gold for Disney. They're hoping he's done it again with Descendants, a film premiering next Friday on Disney Channel. It's a musical fantasy about the teenage offspring of some of Disney's most famous villains.
Ortega says he thinks he's found young actors who could become every bit as successful as Efron or Tisdale, and says he approached casting for Descendants the same way he approached casting for that first High School Musical.
Karen Getz, front left, Philadelphia dance and theater artist and dance captain of 1987's "Dirty Dancing," and Dawn Falato, back right, rehearsing in Getz's Bala Cynwyd home on Aug. 7. Getz and Falato are the co-creators of "Gorgeousity."
Karen Getz, left, Philadelphia dance and theater artist and dance captain of 1987's "Dirty Dancing," and Dawn Falato, right, are shown here rehearsing in Getz's Bala Cynwyd home on Aug. 7. Getz and Falato are the co-creators of "Gorgeousity."
Getz, 54, these days is known as a Barrymore Award-winning Philadelphia theater artist who has worked with Pig Iron, 1812 Productions and the Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival. "Dirty Dancing" fans, however, will probably recognize her as the gum-chewing dancer who gives Baby (Jennifer Grey) the stink eye at a raucous party for employees of Kellerman's, the Catskills resort that serves as the film's setting. Getz, a lifelong dancer, served as the film's dance captain in addition to playing a dirty dancer and helped choreographer Kenny Ortega build the movie's dance scenes.
The New York City native, fresh out of Binghamton University, auditioned for "Dirty Dancing" by "really sexually" maneuvering with a partner for Ortega and late director Emile Ardolino. She received a callback and was offered her first professional film job. She was one of eight original dirty dancers on the production and, as dance captain, handled keeping extras on beat and doing the right dance moves.
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