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1980 movie oddity Xanadu showing on big screen in San Antonio this Tuesday

The film, starring Gene Kelly and Olivia Newton John, is being screened as part of TPR's Cinema Tuesday series.

By Sanford Nowlin

Editor's note: This story was updated to correctly identify that artist behind the song "Magic." A legendary box office bomb and the inspiration for the first Golden Raspberry Awards, Gene Kelly’s last feature film Xanadu (1980), is a convoluted fantasy musical in which Olivia Newton-John plays a muse of Olympus sent to earth to help struggling artist Sonny Malone (Michael Beck) open a nightclub...

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