Fame! You know the one.
I’m gonna live forever
I’m gonna learn how to fly
It’s 1980. Big Hair. Leg warmers with Attitude. Coco, Doris, Montgomery and Raul talking singing fighting dancing their way through their Manhattan Performing Arts School. I can still see Coco dancing on the table tops in her leg warmers. She made it all look so.. glamorous and easy.
The true mark of talent – making the impossible look easy. Not only did Irene Cara (Coco) star and dance in Fame, but she also sung the theme song and then went on just two years later to win an Oscar for the Flashdance hit “What a Feeling’.
Yesterday I saw a Young Lady out in a very 80s banana-yellow cotton dress with heels and leg warmers on. But despite her style I somehow doubted that she had ever seen this old gem of a movie and experienced that thrill of a flick that was bold and experimental and not afraid to go for it and make it’s mark on the world.