Blades Of Glory Movie

THE images in "Blades of Glory" are provocative: Will Ferrell, as a rough-and-tumble macho, and Jon Heder, as the pastel-wearing girlie man, feign romance on the ice as a figure skating pair. They lock legs and hold hands, bump and grind and plant their faces in each other's crotch. It's hilarious and unsettling: The joke, which deftly avoids gay baiting, is on straight men. Straight men and male bonding, it turns out, make for far richer comic ground these days.

It's all lifts and giggles until someone breaks an ankle. That's what happened to Jon Heder during training just days before he and costar Will Ferrell were scheduled to start filming the male-bonding, figure skating comedy "Blades of Glory," which opens Friday. One minute Heder was up in his skates moving into a spin and the next he was sporting a hairline fracture and ordered to stay off the ice for three months.