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8 April 2012 9:49 PM, PDT | Channing Tatum Unwrapped | See recent Channing Tatum Unwrapped news »

Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan-Tatum helped raise millions more for the preservation of the Rainforest and its indigenous people and stole the show Step Up-style at New York City’s Carnegie Hall during a special charity concert for the Rainforest Foundation last week!

In front of esteemed guests and fellow performers such as Bill Clinton, Meryl Streep, Elton John, Rita Wilson, Sting and Jennifer Hudson, the beautiful couple performed a steamy routine to Roxanne (courtesy of Welsh bass-baritone opera and concert singer Bryn Terfel) which showed off their impressive dance skills during the “Songs of the Silver Screen” charity event.

Chan even took to the stage as backup dancer to Sir Elton John for a hilarious rendition of “Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend”, and when Elton John sang ‘Rock Around the Clock’ and Bruno Mars did ‘Heartbreak Hotel’, the whole cast – from Sting to Streep to Chan »

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15 March 2012 1:17 PM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »

Considering it's where most of us (bar the weird home-schooled kids) spend our crucial formative years, where we have our first fights, our first loves, our first tentative steps into adulthood, it's no surprise that high school has long been a popular setting for movies. A range of genres (though generally leaning towards comedy) have taken place in those hallways, particularly from the 1980s onwards, when John Hughes, among others, made an entire career out of the lives and loves of 15-18 year olds.

The latest film to head back to class is "21 Jump Street" (review here) the big-screen reboot of the '80s TV show, which stars Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum as youthful-looking cops who are sent back to high school in order to bust a drug-running ring. While you might assume this to be another lazy remake, you'd be very wrong, as Tatum, Hill, co-writer Michael Bacall, »

- Oliver Lyttelton

27 February 2012 9:12 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Hordes of Halbstarken – the German equivalent of teddy boys – come alive in this hidden rock'n'roll gem unearthed by Jon Savage from the archive of British Pathé newsreels

What's interesting in looking through newsreel archives is how the editorial policy of the day differs from what is now received history. So, although rock'n'roll arrived in Britain in the winter of 1955-6 with the success of Bill Haley and the Comets' Rock Around the Clock (No 1 in early January), there is comparatively little material relating to rock'n'roll in Pathé's archive from 1956.

Nowhere is there anything about Elvis Presley, who had four major hits that year, nor anything about the late-summer furore that accompanied the release of the film Rock Around the Clock – a heady brew of excited newspaper reports and censorious local councils reacting to a bit of gang warfare and youthful high spirits.

Rock'n'roll's impact went way beyond the music, »

- Jon Savage

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