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Friday, July 11, 2008
Chinese cheerleaders learn from American pros.
Hundreds of Chinese women are learning the fine arts of professional cheerleading from the New England Patriots dancers.
The women are learning “how to jump, flip and cheer for the tens of thousands of spectators who will attend this summer’s Games,” the China Daily reported on Wednesday.
One New England Patriot dancer expressed confidence that the Chinese women would master the trade: “They’re a lot like Americans - they use pompoms, they do flips,” 20-year-old Corie Mae Callaluca told the Chinese newspaper.
The paper editorialized that Mae Callaluca “is every bit the stereotypical cheerleader with long blonde hair and blue eyes.”
“Cheerleading is a quintessentially American tradition but has become more and more popular in China, thanks in large part to the phenomenal success of US basketball among China’s youth, who are not shocked by scantily clad dancers,” the paper added.
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Spoiler alert: Carrie’s No. 1!
Is it E.T. leaving in a spaceship or Butch and Sundance going down in a hail of bullets? The London Times has come up with its list of the top 20 movie endings of all time. The critics’ favorite actually isn’t E.T. or Butch and Sundance … but the ending of Carrie.
1) Carrie, Brian De Palma, 1976 “At the end of this Stephen King adaptation, Carrie (Sissy Spacek), who begins the film doused in the blood of her first period, has ended it drenched in the blood of pigs at a high-school prom. Unfortunately for her classmates, Carrie’s womanhood brought with it telekinetic powers, which she then uses to wipe out most of them - and herself - in a blaze of purifying flame. Sue (Amy Irving), one of the few survivors, visits Carrie’s freshly dug grave. She lays flowers. Carrie’s arm thrusts out of the soil and grabs her. A million stomachs leap. Sue wakes up. It was just a nightmare, but one that will never end.”
2) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 3) Casablanca 4) E.T. 5) Chinatown 6) Breakfast at Tiffany’s 7) Some Like It Hot 8) The Italian Job 9) The Usual Suspects 10) The Sixth Sense
Incidentally, readers had their own ideas when it comes to favorite movie endings. Many thought it a crime that the newspaper failed to mention Silence of the Lambs or Halloween.
