Variety reported yesterday that Warner Brothers is moving forward with the movie Rome Sweet Rome.

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The movie is a sweet, chaste dream of good will, but silent movies were not about good will and restraint.

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And the reason that dancers are often said to peak in their early 30s (that sweet spot where Hines and Baryshnikov were when they made the movie, thus the reference to it) is where the increase in skill and experience is still just ahead of the decrease in pure physical ability.

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The movie that got the most shout-outs was a sweet little film that I was surprised to see even mentioned: Big Night.

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The Castiles performed at sweet sixteens and Elks-club dances, at drive-in movie theatres and ShopRite ribbon cuttings, at a mobile-home park in Farmingdale, at the Matawan-Keyport Rollerdrome.

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Ms. Carrasco, 20, who appears in the movie with her three brothers, recalled how real-life anxiety over her Sweet 16 party filtered into the story.

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As before, Tracy Turnblad (Nikki Blonsky), a chubby Baltimore teen-ager in 1962, lives to dance and to make out with the sweet, good-looking school king (Zac Efron), and much of the movie feels like a prolonged platter party.

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The sweet-looking James Franco is entirely charming as the young Allen Ginsberg in this rather tepid hybrid movie.

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