But there is a sound reason that the 100-odd Pakistani pictures produced every year stick to the safe song-and-dance formula.
Season V began on a wrong note with a tawdry Bollywood song-and-dance opening show which even appears to have put off fans.
For Members of Congress, this is all a lark, just more song-and-dance razzmatazz to entice voters to buy them tickets back onto the congressional stage.
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Some time around 1830, Rice learned a popular African-American song-and-dance routine, based on the myth of the trickster figure, an escaped slave named Jim Crow.
She has toned down her image in recent public appearances, sometimes wearing a military uniform because of her position as a major-general in a military song-and-dance troupe.
But that is precisely what the BJP and its allies did on March 19: the Hindu rightist organization held a colorful song-and-dance pageant involving some 500 artists in a majestic 14th-century complex in Delhi.
The rest of the Oscar broadcast alternated between host Hugh Jackman's smooth song-and-dance numbers, some comic moments from Steve Martin, Tina Fey and Ben Stiller, and politics, generally focused on gay rights and California's anti-gay marriage Proposition 8.
Though Stream TV has created some neat technology, we've heard this entire song and dance before -- a few times -- and have yet to see products actually arrive in any volume to the marketplace.
Group discussions, simulations, drama, song and dance and story-telling are some of the most commonly used methods.
While the song "Macarena" -- and its signature dance, THE Macarena -- didn't enjoy the luxury of YouTube, it did somehow manage to become an international sensation in the mid-'90s.
"Having performed an exotic dance and an opening song, 26-year-old stewardess Lin Lin won resounding ovation from the few passengers in the audience, " Xinhua recounts.
We've heard this whole song and dance before, but apparently Hybrios are such an improvement over regular one-use batteries that the Worldwide Wildlife Fund recently let the company stick its logo on the packets -- and if there's anything that motivates us to buy things, it's a giant, environmentally-friendly panda.
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Murphy attempts to top that song's epic scope with "I Can Change, " and the king of the dance-rock revival nearly reaches the same heights.
Baauer's Harlem Shake - the song behind the latest internet dance craze - fell from three to eight in the singles chart, while Macklemore and Ryan Lewis's Thrift Shop dropped from two to four.
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