Fame: The Original Movie (BD) "Easter"Seven classes a day and a hot lunch. That's what New York City's High School for the Performing Arts guarantees. Stardom? That's something the school's teenage musicians, actors, dancers and dreamers strive for. Fame sings the body electric, celebrating the growing up process of honing talent, confronting realities, finding love, living life. Director Alan Parker brings an energetic style to the crisscrossing stories of students (including future
Lance and his people must fight to keep their land
a cargo the captain himself is seeking
is piloted by three-time Emmy-winning director Robert Butler
Henry Jones and Lloyd Nolan play their equally astonished contemporaries
Young Richard Miller feels the constraints of his turn-of-the-century New England hometown and close-knit family
the con man talks him into taking a train ride back east that will take them through the Southwest and into New Orleans
Joe McConnell's squad of Sabre pilots are airborne in seconds
Written and directed by Academy Award-nominee Millard Kaufman ("Bad Day at Black Rock
junior and senior alike
her sex and her empire to become Catherine the Great
creating more harm than good by their methods
phantom dinosaurs and more fantastic jungle menaces
