In the 1960s, the idea of sending up popular culture was so fresh it could still be considered daring — “Monster Mash” was a Top 10 Halloween hit in 1962 and Batman was on TV in 1966, the same year ...

Just two years after Susan Sontag wrote her 1964 essay “Notes on Camp,” the musical “Dames at Sea” opened at the tiny Manhattan cabaret Caffé Cino. The so-bad-it’s-good aesthetic had been given a name ...

Reimagining the Busby Berkeley-era extravaganza in miniature, the 1968 off-Broadway hit shuffles uptown with its perky homage to 1930s movie musicals. By David Rooney Chief Film Critic Whether there’s ...

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Musical parody of large, flashy 1930’s Busby Berkeley-style musical in which a chorus girl, newly arrived off the bus from the Midwest to New York City steps into a role on Broadway and becomes a star ...

The classic films of director and choreographer Busby Berkeley often featured hundreds of dancers performing routines for Broadway musicals that could never fit on a real stage. But "Dames at Sea," ...

Few remember the men who directed the Warner Bros. talkies of the early 1930s, and yet choreographer Busby Berkeley remains a legend some 70 years later. Warner's new "Busby Berkeley Collection" ...

Ryan Gosling (inset) is considering playing director and choreographer Busby Berkeley, who directed the 1934 flick "Dames" (main). Getty Images; Everett Collection The week’s most surprising movie ...