Merengue. M-E-R-E-N-G-U-E.

I saw the trailer for "Mad Hot Ballroom" before "Look at Me" the other day and it was sweet. (Yes, by "sweet" I mean I got a little misty--but nothing along the lines of "Moonlight Mile." Every time the chorus "Someone save, someone save my life tonight" played over Jake Gyllenhaal looking distraught, I was reduced to absolute mush. A case of trailer being better than movie.) Anyway, Choire Sicha reviews "Mad Hot Ballroom," a movie about kids in the N.Y. public school system competing in a dance competition, for the L.A. Times.