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Tuesday, October 5, 2021
FLASHDUNCE
FLASHDANCE (1983)
dir: Adrian Lyne
FLASHDUNCE
MAD #246, April 1984
w: Stan Hart
a: Mort Drucker
Excerpt from Sissy and Ebore At the Movies
We see the life of Alex Owens (Jennifer Beals) who works by day as a welder in a steel mill in Pittsburgh biking daily, and at night she dances at a local bar.
Alex aspires to be a professional ballerina and attempts to apply to the local music conservatory, but is too intimidated when she sees the other applicants. One night she and her friends are leaving work and are accosted by the owner of a local strip club (Lee Ving), and the brawl is stopped by her boss at the steel mill Nick, (Michael Nouri) and the two of them begin a relationship. Alex's co-workers are also aspiring performers. She and Nick watch her friend Jeanie (Sunny Johnson) at an ice-skating competition where Jeanie keeps falling.
The half-sweatshirt with the large neckhole was a huge fashion trend in the 80s.
Alex and Nick keep fighting and breaking up again. She applies to the music school and is accepted, but almost doesn't go when she finds out she got in because Nick pulled a few strings. Her mentor has died which finally gives her the confidence to pursue her dream.
The dancing was done in silhouettes by an obvious double.
On page 2, in the first panel, the guy on the right is John Travolta from the previous year's Staying Alive, the ill-fated sequel to Saturday Night Fever.
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