The story of Brian Epstein at 16

[koganbot]

This New York Times profile of Vanessa Hudgens did what the preview clips didn't do for Bandslam, which was to make me somewhat interested in seeing the movie (though I'll be happy to wait for it to show up at my local library on DVD sometime in the next several years). I'm skeptical about the article's storyline - don't see how shy emo girl who blossoms on the rock stage in Bandslam is a major shift in persona from shy science geek who blossoms on the musical stage in High School Musical* - but what grabbed my attention was director Todd Graff saying that he wanted to tell the "story of Brian Epstein at 16."

Also, someone involved in the movie must be a Tom Lehrer fan.

*I've only seen the first HSM movie, however, so I don't know if Gabriella's character stayed the same for the two that followed.

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[koganbot]

How much of a star is Bernal in Mexico? I think he had something of a soap background as a teen, but my impression is that he tends now to play for the art crowd - but that's strictly because the one movie I've seen him in was Almodovar's Bad Education which played to art audiences in the U.S. (but I don't know about Spain or Mexico)(I read that Bernal captured a particular regional Spanish accent perfectly, despite being Mexican). Film is good - sort of All About Eve as if it had been scripted by Ross MacDonald and Alfred Hitchcock, though not quite as good as that sounds.