
BYT's penchant for all things Bowie has been discussed before, but whatever chance we get to talk about it some more, we'll take it.
Starting Friday, the kind folks at E street cinema are starting a one-week-only showing of Jim Henson's "Labyrinth". Chances are that, if you are worth your seminal-movie-salt, you have already seen it, but we are here to tell you why this is one of those movies you really should see on the big screen.
So lets count the ways: It is a goddamn musical (no matter what people say) and musicals were made to be shown on bombastically large screens, with good surround sound and all that jazz. Then: everything is bigger and better on the bigger and better screen: Bowie's cameltoe becomes the size of a small child's head, the bubbles in the Swamp of eternal stench become at least tennis ball proportioned, the Thing is as big as you imagined it when you were 10, and Jennifer Connelly shows, even at the age of 14 the signs of beauty and grace that later made Paul Bethany shack up with her in Brooklyn and raise beautiful babies.
And, because this sometimes worries people, rest asured that Jim Henson's puppetry and special effects hold up amazingly well even now (unlike some of those movies you saw as a kid before Pixar desentisized you and made you expect nothing but perfection.
But it is a Bowie show, throughout, and "Dance Magic" is still simultaneously the most awesome and most creepy musical number involving babies and goblins ever ("You remind me of a babe? What Babe? The babe with the power? Power of voodoo. Who does? You do"-GENIUS.RIGHT THERE).
So, we are pasting it here:
but do you know what we want? what we really, really want?
we want an awesome double feature of this movie PLUS the amazing "making of" documentary Henson made on it (old school blue screens, 2 people operated puppets and more). Can someone make that one happen?

God loves a cheerful giver.
i am so there every day of that week.
maybe you should see if anyone goes in costume a la "rocky horror picture show?"
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I looooove Labyrinth. I remember the first time I saw it, on video at my then-friend Elaine's house; I was 9 or 10 years old and very very curious about the bulge in David Bowie's tight pants, which marked the first time I thought maybe, just maybe, boys aren't all icky.