Aero Theatre
1328 Montana Ave
323.466.3456
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Ball of Fire
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Saturday Dec 29, 2007 (7:30pm)
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- Price
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$10
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Amorphous auteur Howard Hawks has a jellybean assortment of genre gems. Tonight, two screwball sweets — the brisk Ball of Fire and timeless classic Twentieth Century — offer a rollicking ride through Hawks' fastidious universes. While Disney stripped Snow White of sex appeal, Ball of Fire imagines her as a feisty fugitive showgirl (Barbara Stanwyck) who shacks up with seven slang-studying professors. With Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder's rabbit-fast dialogue providing laughs aplenty, another (Gary Cooper) falls for the dame in distress. With equal madcap energy, Twentieth Century charts Carole Lombard's shopgirl-to-superstar conversion, as her former Broadway manager (John Barrymore) uproariously and unrelentingly adventures to wrest her back.
