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There Is A Certain Amount Of Pornography That Exists Throughout Purple Rain, But The Appeal Is Obvious. You Can Really Pick That Picture Apart And See Where "a" Fits Into "b" And So On. It Was Very Wisely Done.

There Is A Strange Sort Of Reasoning In Hollywood That Musicals Are Less Worthy Of Academy Consideration Than Dramas. It's A Form Of Snobbism, The Same Sort That Perpetuates The Idea That Drama Is More Deserving Of Awards Than Comedy.

I Wanted To Invent Some Kind Of American Dance That Was Danced To The Music That I Grew Up On: Cole Porter And Rodgers And Hart And Irving Berlin. So I Evolved A Style That Certainly Didn't Catch On Right Away - But I Had Some Good Mentors In New York Who Encouraged Me.

I'd Studied Dance In Chicago Every Summer And Taught It All Winter, And I Was Well-rounded. I Wasn't Worried About Getting A Job On Broadway. In Fact, I Got One The First Week.

The Way I Look At A Musical, You Are Commenting On The Human Condition No Matter What You Do. A Musical May Be Light And Frivolous, But By Its Very Nature, It Makes Some Kind Of Social Comment.